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  As investors streamline their investment portfolios to take advantage of expected opportunities in the market in 2016 and enhance their returns, Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited, Bunmi Dayo-Olagunju, has called on investors to take advantage of mutual funds to hedge their risks. Dayo-Olagunju made the...

Get the Diamond Mobile App for easy and convenient banking on the go. Access your accounts for various financial transactions and conduct business from the comfort of your phone in a secure, fast and convenient way. The App offers more than just banking services. It also features lifestyle solutions which...

Pop diva, Tiwa Savage and popular comic act, Afeez Oyetoro aka Saka were both celebrity attendants at the new MTN mega registration centres in Lagos and Ibadan on the 12th of January 2016. Guided by the national interest objectives of the SIM registration exercise, MTN continues to make concerted efforts...

Just few weeks after a successful album launch, new mom and popular R&B/Afro Pop singer, Tiwa Savage will lead the campaign for Procter & Gamble (P&G) Nigeria flagship brand, Pampers Baby-Dry diaper. This was disclosed by P&G Nigeria at the unveiling of a new television commercial (TVC) tagged ‘#MomsknowBest’ held...

Etisalat Nigeria, in partnership with a non-governmental organization, Traffina Foundation for Community Health, recently held a Community Support Initiative themed, “Etisalat Maternity Health Platforms (ETIMATHEPs)”. This was a 4-day programme that featured talks on maternal health delivered by a team of medical experts as well as distribution of free Safe...

In brand advertising, a brand advocate is a person, or customer who talks favourably about a brand or product, and then passes on positive word-of-mouth (WOM) messages about the brand to other people. Brand advocates strongly believe in the product they are helping advertise through electronic word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM).  They...

Photo Credit: FIFA.com Lionel Messi has won the FIFA Ballon d’Or for the best player in the world for the fifth time. The 28-year-old Argentine had 41.33% of the vote, with Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo (27.76%) second and Barca's Neymar (7.86%) third. Either Messi or Ronaldo, who became a...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given the final regulatory approval to the acquisition of Visafone Communications Limited, Nigeria’s surviving Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operator by MTN Nigeria. The deal which was sanctioned in late December 2015 allows MTN Nigeria to utilise Visafone’s 800MHz spectrum to launch fourth generation...

The launch of movie-streaming service Netflix across Africa has “zero impact” on Nigerian startup iROKO, according to the latter’s chief executive officer (CEO) Jason Njoku. Netflix took many by surprise this week with its expansion into 130 countries, including across Africa, but Njoku said the arrival of a rival movie-streaming...

As the cinema release of the very much anticipated ‘Beyond Blood’ movie beckons, the star-studded cast made up of a tasteful blend of two generations of Nollywood superstar actors and actresses like Carol King, Shan George, Segun Arinze, Bimbo Manuel, Francis Nwochei, Deyemi Okanlawon, Kehinde Bankole, Joseph Benjamin, Okey Uzoeshi,...