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The beneficiaries were the first set of entrepreneurs to be trained under the advisory and training support services for female entrepreneurs, a component package of the Skye Pearl programme, which is specifically developed to cater to the funding and capacity building needs of female entrepreneurs, stay-at-home mothers, among others

With a number of Nigerian banks having postponed moves to raise fresh funds, the CNB said it was monitoring the three lenders’ recapitalisation plans and that 10 others with international status met the 15 per cent minimum capital rate for that category of bank at the end of June

Explaining the rationale for the special partnership, Okoli said because most people who travel in Nigeria are salary earners and small business owners in the middle income segment, they are wont to save up for their travel over a long period of time and so end up buying their tickets two or three weeks to the date of travel

L-R: Assistant Director, National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Fisinba Idasefiema; Regional Director Commercial Abuja and North Central, Skye Bank Plc, Osazuwa Igbinoba; Head, Retail Banking, Skye Bank Plc, Nkolika Okoli; Secretary, North Region, National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Edeaghe Mark; and Nollywood actor and celebrity host, Kingsley Ogbonna, popularly known as Dauda

First Bank and UBA had clarified that the non-remittance of the funds arose from a communication gap amongst some government offices and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Available information concerning Skye Bank points to the fact that the institution may have also been caught in the web of the communication gap. It was confirmed that the Bank indeed rendered and had been rendering the full returns to the CBN on a daily basis

The programme, which was unveiled at a dinner on Friday in Lagos, is a platform that offers series of activities meant to benefit sit-at-home mothers, professionals and women-owned SMEs by offering them a chance to grow and expand their businesses through partnership, relationship, access to financial education, information, networking, mentoring and empowerment initiative

L-R: Executive Director, Skye Bank Plc, Ibiye Asime Ekong; Managing Director/CEO, Skye Bank Plc, Timothy Oguntayo; Head Small Business Group, Skye Bank Plc, Ayodele Olojede; and Head, Retail Banking, Skye Bank Plc, Nkolika Okoli, at the official launch of Skye Pearl Initiative by Skye Bank at Civic Centre, Victoria Island Lagos on October 23, 2015