Get Tips from FirstBank DMD on How to Turn your SME into Big Business at the Economy and You! Breakfast Series

Are you a proprietor aspiring to build new blocks of classrooms, a fashion designer trying to meet new demands, a transporter seeking to expand your routes, a distributor in need of more goods or a retail outlet needing an integrated payment platform for funds transfer?

At FirstBank, we understand SME business so we can guide you on the path to growth because we used to be you. Join us on the Economy and You! Breakfast series with Francis Shobo Deputy Managing Director First Bank of Nigeria Limited on April 19th 2016 at the Multi-purpose Hall, Enterprise Development Centre, Km. 22, Lekki-EpeExpressway, Ajah, Lagos by 10am prompt for tips on how to turn your SME into big business.

Leave your comments and questions hereand join the conversation using #FBNEconomyAndYoufor answers and many more during the live tweet at the Economy and You! Breakfast series

Every business has a vision that helps chart a clear path to growth and success that is why we provide you with products designed for financing your Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), advisory services and business tools to help you drive your business to success. One of the many ways in which we have been offering advisory services isThe Economy and You! Radio program.

The Economy and You! is a 30-minute radio program where experts, accomplished SME entrepreneurs and regulators provide tips on identifying and making use of opportunities that abound for SME businesses in the Nigerian economy. Since its debut in 2015, it has featured over 30 entrepreneurs. It is broadcast live every Sunday by 6:15 pm onRhythm FM (Network) with a repeat broadcast streamed on the Enterprise Development Center(EDC) website www.edcradioonline.com every Wednesday.

Visit: http://sme.firstbanknigeria.com  to start your business journey now.

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Photos: Beyonce wears African-inspired outfit to visit SA exhibition at museum in DC

 Beyonce and her husband Jay Z recently visited the Smithsonian Museum of Design in Washington D.C for the South African Laduma Ngxokolo exhibition and released photos of their visit on social media. Beyonce wore an African-inspired outfit for the trip. See more photos after the cut...

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Photos: You should see some of the tactics used by people in attempt to smuggle illegal items into Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia custom officials posted some of the various illegal items people have attempted to smuggle into the country. One of the most popular items uncovered by officials is alcohol which completely banned in Saudi Arabia. More photos after the cut.......As seen in the photos, some people have hid bottles of whiskey in the crevices of their cars in the hope that the normal-looking exterior is enough to mask what lies beneath. In the first six days of January alone, almost 535,000 Captagon pills were found during a number of different searches by Saudi customs officers: 414,000 pills were found in truck tires; 100,000 were concealed in wooden pallets; and another 10,000 were found in the lining of a man’s underwear.

Smugglers have even used camels to try and get their contraband into the country, with Saudi officials discovering a camel with 115,000 narcotic pills on its back.

In an attempt to sneak 48,000 cans of Heineken into the country, a smuggler wrapped each can in the Pepsi logo. More photos...

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Why also invest in Ibeju Lekki? Ibeju Lekki is the new Face, the new frontier, the future and the new focus of business in Lagos.

Its home to High net worth of people and businesses such as the prestigious Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Plant, The Lekki Free trade Zone LFTZ, The Lekki Epe International Airport , The Lekki Deep Sea Port and Of course the Golf Course and many more Tourist and Business Attraction.

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Photo: You might learn to mind your business after reading this...

Lol...He sure learnt his lesson the hard way...

One year after Nigerian student Ozi Akerele went missing, his mum, UK police appeal for information

Today, January 31 marks a year to the day since Nigerian student, Ozievo Akerele disappeared without a trace leaving his widowed mother heartbroken. The 24-year-old Masters student of Coventry University was last seen after leaving a nightclub in the early hours of the morning of Jan. 31, 2015. 

Since then officers have released CCTV of Ozi’s last movements, issued media appeals for sightings and searched miles of the canal network and outlying area where Ozi was last seen.

Officers have worked closely with Coventry University who continue to distribute posters asking for information and have previously offered a reward of up to £20,000 for information which would help find the Nigerian student who came to Coventry to take a Masters Degree in Management of Information Technology after completing studies in Nigeria.

Ozi went out with friends to the Iglu club on Spon Street, but left alone around 3.30am. CCTV shows him hours later on the Foleshill Road between Park Street and the A444 shortly after making a call to a friend asking to be picked up near to the university. Sadly when the friend arrived Ozi couldn’t be found.

The latest search involved two ‘drowned victim’ search dogs from the National Search and Rescue Dog Association who travelled from Greater Manchester.

 

Handler Dave March and his Collie Sasha along with British Transport Police officer Mike Dermody and his MalinoisQuincy tracked a five mile stretch of the canal earlier this month. The dogs along with their handlers and two inflatable boats supplied by West Mercia Police searched from Coventry Basin to Hawkesbury Junction near to the Greyhound pub.

Previously Sonar equipment from the Home Office has been used in the search for Ozi, all to no avail. Inspector Alastair Orencas who is leading the search for Ozi. He said:

"In spite of extensive searches, investigation work and media appeals, we are no closer to finding Ozi. On the anniversary of his disappearance I am again appealing to anyone who may have any information to come forward. I am in regular contact with Ozi’s mother, Irene Akerele, and my dearest wish is to have news for her to end the limbo that she finds herself in."

Ozi left three brothers and his widowed mother in Abuja, Nigeria to travel to the UK.

After his disappearance Irene Akerele came to England to assist with the search. She described her son as being "on the quiet side, he doesn’t talk much, but he is a happy boy, he’s always excited. He likes friends around him, he’s very generous."

She spoke of his decision to continue his studies here:

"Ozievo was happy to come to Coventry University, he wanted it, he sought the admission himself. At times now, I regret sending him out to do his Masters Degree."

Source: West Midlands Police