GTBank Releases 2015 Half Year Audited Results Reports Profit Before Tax of N63.11Billion
Lagos, Nigeria – August, 2015
Guaranty Trust Bank plc has released its audited financial results for the half year ended June 30, 2015 to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges.
A review of the half year performance, shows positive growth across all key financial metrics and improved strategic positioning of the brand. Gross earnings for the period grew by 15% to N153billion from N133billion reported in the June 2014; driven primarily by growth in interest income. Profit before tax stood at N63.11billion, representing a growth of 18% over N53.39billion recorded in the corresponding period of June 2014.The Bank’s loan book grew by 2% from N1.276trillion recorded as at December 2014 to N1.299trillion in June 2015 and total customer deposits increased by 5% to N1.71trillion from N1.618trillion in December 2014.
Frost & Sullivan Acclaims Tuluntulu for Creating a Platform for Seamless Mobile Streaming in Low Bandwidth Environments
Tuluntulu operates at 85KBps, offering more than a 10 percent reduction in data costs compared to competing streams
LONDON, Aug. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the video-on-demand (VOD) market, Frost & Sullivan recognises Tuluntulu with the 2015 South Africa Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership. Tuluntulu accurately identified and addressed the needs of consumers in the lower economic segments with its free mobile video streaming app. This platform uses technology that optimises video streams over EDGE, 2G, and other lower-speed network connections to deliver a rich customer experience at reduced costs.
Puff Daddy & The Family To Headline The 2015 REVOLT Music Conference
ROBIN THICKE, JIDENNA, DEJ LOAF, QUINCY, POST MALONE, ALSO TO PERFORM AT THE RETURN OF THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED EVENT IN MIAMI BEACH OCTOBER 15-18
NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Adding more heat to the already impressive lineup, REVOLT announced the first round of all-star performers who will take the stage during the second annual REVOLT Music Conference (RMC). Puff Daddy & The Family will make a special appearance headlining the epic four day action-packed conference at the infamous Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach on October 15–18, 2015.
Coca-Cola Peace Day Anthem: Peace One Day Youth Celebration in Kigali, Rwanda premieres Coca-Cola Peace Day Anthem
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Peace One Day Youth Celebration in Kigali, Rwanda premieres Coca-Cola Peace Day Anthem
African music stars Ice Prince, Dama Do Bling, Maurice Kirya, Alikiba and Wangechi unite for Peace One Day, to release Coca-Cola Peace Anthem on Peace Day 21 September 2015.
Nigerian Artist, Joe El Debuts 'Timeless' Album Features International Music Prodigy B. Howard on 'Blown Away' Track
LOS
ANGELES, Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging talent and Kennis Music
front man, Joe El dropped his debut album in July with hit singles such
as 'Hold On', 'Oya now', 'You Are In Love'. After collaborations with
MTV world music award winner 2face Idibia (Fly) and now with his protege
Joe-El, Howard lends his vocals on the track 'Blown Away'.
Emirates launches up to 25% off sale to select destinations
Emirates,
a global connector of people and places, has announced the launch of a
sale campaign offering up to 25% off to select destinations in its
Economy Class cabins for the Nigerian market.
The special fares
apply to all Emirates’ destinations from Lagos including: Mumbai (BOM);
Guangzhou (CAN); Delhi (DEL); Dallas-Fort-Worth (DFW); Dubai (DXB);
Houston (IAH); New York (JFK); London (LHR); Chennai (MAA) and Chicago
(ORD); Bangalore (BLR); Mumbai (BOM); and Guangzhou (CAN).
Celebrated Nollywood diva Kate Henshaw and popular comedian Basketmouth are highlighted in a new six-part series "MY NIGERIA" by Al Jazeera that will start showing on Monday 24th August at 2230GMT. Others in the series are IT guru Gbenga Sesan, famous fashion designer Deola Sagoe, Femi Bamigboye of Remo Football Academy and Sandra Aguebor, Nigeria’s first Lady Mechanic.
MY NIGERIA
This brand new series reveals the lives and stories of six diverse Nigerians who give us a glimpse of this vast country from a very personal perspective. From a stand-up comedian to a tech entrepreneur; from a politico-actress to a rural football coach; from a lady mechanic to an elite fashion designer, each 30 minute episode of My Nigeria pulses with the energy of Africa's leading economy.
Basketmouth: Trash Talking
Monday 24th August at 2230GMT
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Stand-up comedian Basketmouth invites us to eavesdrop onto his street-smart Nigerian life. He is, arguably, Nigeria’s most successful stand-up comic. Born and bred in the notorious Lagos slum Ajegunle, he discovered his gift for comedy by chance and has never looked back. His take on Lagos, West Africa’s most vibrant city, is upbeat, irreverent and challenging.
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Kate Henshaw: Playing a Part
Monday 31st August at 2230GMT
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Kate Henshaw has always been known as one of the Nollywood stars with integrity. Having made over 70 films, Kate decides to leave the fictional world and run for a seat in Nigeria’s House of Representatives. She wants to change how people are represented in her hometown of Calabar in Southern Nigeria, but politics in Nigeria is not for the fainthearted.
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Gbenga Sesan: Connecting a Million
Monday 7th September at 2230GMT
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As a pupil, Gbenga Sesan was denied access to the computer room at his Nigerian school and told he was not clever enough to operate one. Years later, he is an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) expert, with international awards and a successful consultancy business. He’s spreading his good fortune by teaching ICT and life-skills to young adults in Nigeria’s poorest neighbourhoods.
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Deola Sagoe: Top Drawer
Monday 14th September at 2230GMT
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Nigerian fashion has gone international, gracing the catwalks of New York, Johannesburg and Monaco. Deola Sagoe was one of the designers who led this Nigerian fashion expansion. The House Of Deola Sagoe, on Lagos’ Victoria Island, caters for Nigeria’s fashionistas. Deola’s father, prominent Nigerian businessman Chief Ade Ojo,actively discouraged her from pursuing her dream. He wanted her to take over his lucrative business, but Deola had other ideas.
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Femi Bamigboye: Local Man
Monday 21st September at 2230GMT
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Femi Bamigboye's Remo Football Academy has produced a series of young players who have represented their country at group age level - two will be in Nigeria's squad at the under 17 World Cup later this year. Football coach and pastor, Femi, works and lives in a small Nigerian town of Iperu, he feels his job is not just to teach football; he wants to develop world-class young men, and inspire his loyal congregation every Sunday.
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Sandra Aguebor: Lady Mechanic
Monday 28th September at 2230GMT
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Sandra Aguebor, Nigeria’s first Lady Mechanic, grew up in Benin City. Her mother discouraged her from following her dream, sometimes beating her for tinkering with an engine rather than doing her kitchen chores. But Sandra responded to adversity by building a network of lady mechanics. She trains ex-sex workers, orphans, and victims of trafficking to be mechanics. Her Initiative has now spread to the north with its first project in Kano City, where the response from Muslim women has been unprecedented.
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President Muhammadu Buhari and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Let Potential Ministers in Nigeria Take Psychological Test
~ ByDr. John Egbeazien Oshodi.
President Muhammadu Buhari as you diligently work towards forming your cabinet with persons who will help the nation in the right direction, knowing what motivates such political leader is crucial.
Understanding the individual’s level of self-disciple, and having a comprehensive and deeper psychological shape of the individual’s personality is important.
His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. President,
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria is
the Special Guest of Honour at the National Security Summit
(#NSS2015_NG) on "Community Partnership Approach to Internal Security
and Crime Management."
Displaced Nigerians expelled from Cameroon wait in line for a meal. Photo: OCHA.
UN Agency Assists Nigeria's Neighbours As Escalating Violence Sparks Waves of Refugees
NEW YORK, 14 August 2015 / PRN Africa / -- The United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern about the escalating violence in and around Nigeria and its impact on the situation of Nigerian refugees in surrounding host countries, including a shrinking humanitarian space in which they can seek asylum.
