Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Emerging Trends... The Banking Sector (IV)


In continuation of our on-going conversation, as we follow the trends in our banking sector, kindly observe that there is yawning gap in skilled man power that bedevils our labor market. To tackle the gap in skilled manpower in the financial sector, our regulatory authorities are not

Friday, 8 April 2016

Emerging Trends... The Banking Sector (III)

Emerging trends unavoidably come pregnant with CHANGE. It is just that as change happens, there are beneficiaries and casualties. There are winners and there are losers. Any keen observer however, will not find it difficult to ascertain the fact that the automation in the banking sector has made the bank customers the biggest winners.
It has reduced the stress of going to banks and spending hours in conducting banking transactions, as one could comfortably use the ATM to withdraw cash without stepping into the banking hall. Now the customer can also choose...

Monday, 4 April 2016

Emerging Trends... The Banking Sector (II)

If you ask Google countries with the highest unemployment rate in the world, it will quickly point the arrow on Sub-Saharan African countries, where Nigeria ranks one of the highest. In fact, only two days ago, President Mohamadu Buhari was called upon to declare a state of emergency over the unemployment situation in Nigeria. Yet the prevailing economic government policies seem not to help matters. Let us look hence at certain state of affairs, in continuation of our discussion on EMERGING TRENDS in the Nigerian banking sector.

To understand where the banks are moving towards, there is need to

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Emerging Trends... The Banking Sector

One of the smartest things to do to stay one step ahead is FOLLOWING TRENDS as they emerge. In an attempt to help you do that, we will be exploring in a series certain EMERGING TRENDS across different sectors, with noteworthy concomitant economic consequences. The show begins with the banking sector.
Warren Buffet, one of the world’s richest men propounded what he called the

Tuesday, 4 August 2015

The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Funding African Entrepreneurs


Still on the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which took place in Kenya about two weeks ago, here is yet another notable development that made rounds in that epoch making event, which took place in Africa for the first time. It is the great work that the Tony Elumelu Foundation is doing in furtherance of the raising of African entrepreneurs. This is as reported by the foundation.

“The Tony Elumelu Foundation said FINANCE, INFRASTRUCTURE and INADEQUATE RESOURCE CENTERS are the major impediments affecting

Sunday, 26 July 2015

The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, in Nairobi.


It is widely accepted that entrepreneurship is the gateway to effective economic development anywhere in the world. It is an undisputable fact today that Nigeria is in a desperate need of innovative, well informed and dynamic youths and entrepreneurs as the drivers of an economy projected by Goldman Sachs, a renowned US based investment giant to be among the first 20 economies in the world by the year...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Employability Skills 4


Communication Skills
Stephen King said "The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." If that is anything to go by, then it behooves us to engage a working understanding of the “HOW” to go about saying...