SOCIAL INVESTMENT

By Central Bank of Nigeria’s Director of Development Finance Department, Dr. Mudashiru Olaitan The key mandate of the development finance department is promoting access to finance to ensure job creation and …

Through its Know Your Community Initiative, Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF) successfully sensitized 500 youths at the Makoko Community in the heart of Lagos, on the prevalence and effects …

President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a Micro Pension Plan for people operating in the informal sector of the economy, even as he promised to halt the rot in the nation’s …

DAVID YOUNG, United States chargé d’ affaires David Young on Tuesday visited Edo State, where he met with government leaders, traditional rulers and civil society representatives with a view to understanding …

West Africa’s largest independent fibre optic infrastructure, connectivity solution and telecommunications service provider, Phase3 Telecom, has joined in offering grant support to recipients of the first edition of “Glocalization and …

This year’s Food and Drink Festival organised by Guaranty Trust Bank (Gtbank),  would give room to over 300 food entrepreneurs to prove their culinary skills in a special arrangements made for …

In line with its promise to create jobs, eradicate poverty and grow the economy, the President Muhammadu Buhari administration through the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), …

An impact fund with an innovative approach for attracting much needed capital to the rural areas of developing countries has been launched at the annual meeting of Member States of …

The West Africa Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo), operator of the $1bn West African Gas Pipeline, which was built to supply natural gas from Nigeria to users in Benin, Togo and …

Unity Bank Plc has gone into a partnership with the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) to provide members with a valid means of identification …

Sahara Group says it is consistently driven by its dynamism, which offers its people the greatest opportunities for professional development and personal actualisation. In a statement on Monday, the energy …

Oriental Energy Resources Limited has attributed the success it achieved in Akwa Ibom State to maintaining a close working relationship with relevant government agencies, community-based and non-governmental organisations. The oil …

After 12 months of intensive training, Dorman Long Engineering Limited, a leading oil field equipment, structural steel, marine structures engineering and fabrication company has graduated 16 trainees under its tutelage. …

An indigenous company, Homeland Integrated Offshore Services Limited, has expressed commitment towards the development of host communities. Chief Executive Officer of the company, Dr. Louis Ekere, said this on the …

Union Bank of Nigeria Plc recently completed an 8-month mentorship scheme for youths in Igbodo community of Delta State. This exercise was part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) …

We are passionate about empowering women within Cocoa Life’s communities. This is because we care about these women and because it makes good business sense for us. If we want …

We are expanding the Cocoa Life program to empower at least 500 cocoa farmers and 1000 families in the north region of Brazil, while promoting cocoa agroforestry as a productive …

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has studied Nigeria’s Social Investment Programme in order to implement same to alleviate poverty in their country. A delegation from Congo, led by the Chief …

WorldStage Newsonline– The Federal Government has confirmed  that its Social Investment Programme (SIP) which leverages on Information Communication Technology has benefited about nine million Nigerians. President Muhammadu Buhari said at …

The annual charity walk put together by Stanbic IBTC was held at the weekend in three major cities of Nigeria. It was gathered that on Saturday October 27, 2018, a …

Alhaji Aliko Dangote, chairman, Dangote Industries Limited, and Dangote Foundation, is a good advertisement – a poster boy – for wealth and riches; and his recent ranking as the sixth …

More than 22,000 high school learners and university students have gained a solid understanding of how to invest in the stock market this year through the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) …

Nominees for the 2nd edition of the Sustainability & Social Investment Awards, scheduled for November 30, 2018 at the Accra Marriott hotel have been announced. The Sustainability & Social Investment …

As a way of re-enforcing its commitment to sustainability principles and in commemoration of its 10th year of encouraging sustainable environment with community investment, Mary Nnah writes that Access Bank …