President, Muhammadu Buhari, has issued new directives on COVID-19 donations to Nigeria by philanthropists, companies and international organisations. He has approved the opening of five COVID-19 Donor Accounts which form part of the existing Treasury Single Account arrangement in five commercial banks. The approved banks are Zenith Bank, Access Bank, Guarantee Trust Bank, UBA, and First Bank. The framework covered ...
May, 2020
January, 2020
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22 January
GTBank, Access Bank, Zenith Bank meet over final dividends
GTB’s board is scheduled to meet on Wednesday January 22, 2019 while the boards of Zenith Bank and Access Bank will meet on Tuesday January 28 and Wednesday January 29, 2019. Extant listing rules at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) require quoted companies to submit their annual audited account to the Exchange not later than 90 calendar days after the ...
April, 2018
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17 April
UBA, Access Bank, 2 others scale up to NSE’s premium board
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Access Bank Plc, Lafarge Africa Plc and Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc were yesterday scaled up from the main board of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to the elite premium board. The migration of the four companies brought the number of companies on the premium board to seven including Dangote Cement, FBN Holdings and ...
January, 2018
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10 January
Analysts pick UBA, Access Bank, five others as stocks to watch
Investors looking for high returns on investment should consider a diversified portfolio of leading companies in the banking, healthcare, consumer goods, financial services and industrial goods sectors. Analysts at GTI Securities said seven companies including United Bank for Africa (UBA), Access Bank, United Capital, Fidson Healthcare, Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Cement, Lafarge Africa and Zenith Bank should be on ...
August, 2017
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24 August
Access Bank, NYSC partner to train youth in North East Nigeria
As part of its collaboration with the Federal Government through the NYSC scheme, leading commercial bank, Access Bank Plc. is developing integrated skill acquisition centers across Nigeria’s North-East. These training centers are designed to empower thousands of young people with vocational skills that will aid poverty alleviation and drive long term, sustainable economic growth in the entire region which has ...
January, 2017
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9 January
GTB, Access Bank, Zenith Bank’s directors meet over dividend payment
The boards of directors of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc, Access Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc have scheduled meetings later this month to approve the audited financial statement and accounts of the banks for the year ended December 31, 2016. The meetings will among others consider final dividend recommendation to be made to shareholders. In separate regulatory filing, the ...
August, 2016
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15 August
9 Pointed Reasons Why PayWithCapture 5.0 Is Irresistible
Younews serves you all you should know about PayWithCapture 5.0,from Access.Find below 9 unique things about the product. (1) Enable customers to transfer funds from any bank account (one or more) to any bank account or phone number and email addresses. (2)PayWithCapture 5.0 has also expanded to the web for users to experience the many benefits on larger screens.(3) It ...
June, 2016
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7 June
Access Bank, Dangote partner on disease control
Access Bank Plc says it has partnered Dangote Foundation and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria to build modern infrastructure for the treatment and prevention of terminal and communicable diseases in the country and West Africa. An Executive Director at Access Bank, Mr. Victor Etuokwu, specifically said the tripartite collaboration would help to raise N5bn to build an international research ...
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7 June
Fifth Chukker/Access Bank win 2016 Access Bank UNICEF Charity Shield championship
Access Bank-Fifth Chukker defeated MRS 8-7 to clinched the Charity Shield title as the 2016 Access Bank UNICEF Charity Shield Polo Tournament came to a flourishing end in Kaduna on Sunday. Access Bank, in line with this year’s edition aimed at highlighting the plight of the vulnerable children and orphans and the especially Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northern Nigeria, ...
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7 June
Access Bank donates N10m to UNICEF
Access Bank Plc has donated N10 million to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for its campaign against HIV/AIDS pandemic among Nigerian children as part of its initiatives to reach out to the underprivileged in the country. The donation was presented by the head, Corporate Communication, Access Bank, Olubusola Osilaja, at the Fifth Chukker Polo & Country Club in ...