Business & Economy

PAN-AFRICAN financial services institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, is partnering the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry(LCCI), to organize the 2019 edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair and is giving a 20% discount to its Small and Medium business customers who register to attend the fair. The …

Opens new office to ease transaction in Abuja TRAVEL Management Company (TMC), Finchglow Travels, has emphasized the need for embrace technology and to upgrade the operations of travel agencies in the country as it trained trade partners in Abuja recently. This is just as Finchglow Travels  opened  another branch in …

NATIONAL Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA) will play host to executive members of the Kenya Association of Travel Agencies (KATA) on Thursday, August 8, 2019 on a familiarization visit in Lagos and discuss opportunities for collaboration between the two Associations. KATA’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nicanor Sabula and Hon. …

AKWAABA African Travel Market has confirmed the participation of the newly appointed African Airlines Association (AFRAA), Director of Government, Legal and Industry Affairs, Aaron Munetsi for this year’s Aviation day. Aaron Munetsi who has vast experience in Aviation Industry will be the lead speaker for the 2019 Akwaaba, African Travel …

150 SME owners from across 20 African countries exhibit at the UBA Marketplace AT the recently concluded 5th edition of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum, five African Presidents and thousands of young African entrepreneurs converged at the most influential gathering in the African entrepreneurship ecosystem. Job creation and …

PAN African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc is set to host over 20,000 visitors, 100 small and medium enterprises and leading private and public sector players from across Africa, at the continent’s biggest entrepreneurial fair tagged #theUBAmarketplace2019 in Abuja, Nigeria. The event, which will be held on …

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) Nigeria is partnering a destination management company, Emotions DMC, to woo travel agencies in the country to sell destination Mauritius to Nigerian travellers. The partnership deal was signed at a workshop for top-selling travel agents in Lagos which was organized by Africa’s leading Airline, South African …

invests another N100m to train 20 Nigerians at NCAT BRISTOW Helicopters (Nigeria) Limited has once again taken a significant step towards its ongoing initiatives and commitment to training and human capacity development in the Nigerian aviation industry, revealing that it has committed well over N250million to the training of its …

OVER 70 foreign delegates from Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Benin and Togo will Join Travel and Tourism players from Ghana at the 5th Accra Weizo 2019, the West Africa Tourism and Travel fair. The Accra Weizo which organized in partnership with the Ghana Tourism Authority, GTA, will take place at …

“I am not certain if the finance and accounting graduates of today are familiar with modern financial softwares packages, including global accounting and financial reporting standards.“Have they been imbibed with the ready-to-market soft skills like leadership, communication, commercial acumen, flexibility/openness to change and strategic vision? “If not, I will like to propose an overhaul of the curriculum to accommodate these,” he noted.