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Job Title: Customer Service Officer (CSO) Location: Lagos, Nigeria Recruiter: MGM Consults Ltd. Our client, a first generation Nigerian Bank in Lagos metropolis seeks to recruit self motivated, intelligent, young, articulate, dynamic individuals with integrity. Job Description: • Continuously source for new business opportunities and deposit liability generation • Identify customer needs and proactively seek to provide products/services to meet the identified needs • Review applications for credit facility and make appropriate recommendations • Manage assigned credit portfolio and monitor the quality of existing credit relationships on a continuous basis • Analyze and screen applications for credit, based on the…

Job Title: High Value Small Business – Relationship Manager Employer: Standard Chartered Bank Plc (SCB) Job ID: 408344 Job Function: Consumer Banking Location: Lagos, Nigeria Full/Part Time: Full time Regular/Temporary: Permanent Job Description: • Acquisition and managing of HVSB customer relationships through pro-active and consultative approach and detailed understanding of existing customers’ businesses to enhance liabilities and revenues. The holder is to be the link between strategic and tactical / operational roles in the business. • Acquisition of profitable new customers for HVSB banking business through the creation, development and maintenance of high quality advisory relationships that includes effective consultative…

Job Title: Medium Enterprise – Relationship Manager Employer: Standard Chartered Bank Plc (SCB) Job ID: 408208 Job Function: Consumer Banking Location: Lagos, Nigeria Full/Part Time: Full time Regular/Temporary: Permanent Job Description: – Provide leadership and coordination of the SME ME Team in the Branches ( Surulere and FESTAC) – Market, sell and acquire SME products through pro-active and consultative approach and detailed understanding of Customers’ business(es) and internal offerings to enhance revenues and profit Key Roles & Responsibilities: • Directly work with customers to secure new business relationships, through referrals and different Sales Channels, via the analyses of their needs…

Job Title: SME – Assistant Relationship Manager Employer: Standard Chartered Bank Plc (SCB) Job ID: 408210 Job Function: Consumer Banking Location: Lagos, Nigeria Full/Part Time: Full time Regular/Temporary: Permanent Job Description: • To provide strong support to client, acquire, grow and deepen SME Banking client relationships through effective relationship management, with special focus on SME clients’ total financial needs. • Provide support to Relationship Managers and team in managing the portfolio of relationships. Key Roles & Responsibilities: Sales and Relationship Management • Drive client limit utilization and expand existing client relationships through pro-active contact, account planning, wallet sizing, and effective…

Job Title: SME – Assistant Relationship Manager Employer: Standard Chartered Bank Plc (SCB) Job ID: 408211 Job Function: Consumer Banking Location: Lagos, Nigeria Full/Part Time: Full time Regular/Temporary: Permanent Job Description: • To provide strong support to client, acquire, grow and deepen SME Banking client relationships through effective relationship management, with special focus on SME clients’ total financial needs. • Provide support to Relationship Managers and team in managing the portfolio of relationships. Key Roles & Responsibilities: Sales and Relationship Management • Drive client limit utilization and expand existing client relationships through pro-active contact, account planning, wallet sizing, and effective…

Job Title: Medium Enterprise – Relationship Manager Employer: Standard Chartered Bank Plc (SCB) Job ID: 408203 Job Function: Consumer Banking Location: Lagos, Nigeria Full/Part Time: Full time Regular/Temporary: Permanent Job Description: – Provide leadership and coordination of the SME ME Team in the Branches (GRA Branch and Agidingbi Branch) – Market, sell and acquire SME products through pro-active and consultative approach and detailed understanding of Customers’ business(es) and internal offerings to enhance revenues and profit. Key Roles & Responsibilities: • Directly work with customers to secure new business relationships, through referrals and different Sales Channels, via the analyses of their…

Job Title: Operations Officer Employer: Standard Chartered Bank Plc (SCB) Job ID: 407311 Job Function: Technology & Operations Location: Lagos, Nigeria Full/Part Time: Full time Regular/Temporary: Permanent Job Description: • Assist in implementation of service and efficiency improvement initiatives with all relevant stakeholders and facilitate transfer of best practice • Identify process improvement opportunities from Service Reviews and feedback to SQM (or equivalent) • Identify competitive best practices from clients, TBSM staff, Front office staff and feedback to Head, TBSM • Lead and enhance client support by driving co-ordination within our global TBSM and CSG network to build solutions for…

Job Title: Technical Solutions Representative Reference: 1208347 Employer: Hewlett-Packard (HP) Description: • Successfully resolve technical issues (hardware and software) from incoming internal or external businesses and end user’s contacts and proactive notification systems. • Respond to service, product such as features, specifications, and repairs on current and discontinued products, parts, and options, based on customer entitlement (warranty through mission critical) • Proactively assist internal or external businesses and end users to avoid or reduce problem occurrence • Ability to provide direction and guidance to process improvements • Ability to articulate clearly, recommend and explain resolutions /clients. • Understand and utilize…

Job Title: Receptionist Location: Lagos, Nigeria Employer: Wakleb Ventures Wakleb Ventures is looking for an energetic and highly experienced personnel. Requirement: Minimum of ONDApply to this job

Job Title: Business Development Manager Location(s): Lagos, Nigeria Employer: Bourbon Interoil Nigeria Limited (BINL) Job description: A leading international player in marine services, BOURBON offers to the most demanding oil & gas clients worldwide a full line of innovative, safe, high performance and new generation vessels and an expanded offer of offshore oil & gas services. BINL recruits a Business Development Manager Duties & Responsibilities: To provide a strong strategic focus on key opportunities and engage with customers to create strong business relationships ACTIVITIES: • Identify & create plans with greenfield targets in Nigeria • Develop and maintain a working…

8 Ex-Governors Witness Ogun 2014 Budget Presentation, (L-R): Navy Capt. Kayode Olofinmoyin, Commodore Oladeinde Joseph, Major Gen. Ekundayo Opaleye (Ondo State), Lt. Gen. Oladipo Diya, incumbent Governor Ibikunle Amosun, Major Gen. Ayodele Balogun, Major. Gen. Oladayo Popoola, Col. Daniel Akintonde and Navy Capt. Rasheed Raji (Bauchi and Sokoto States) after the presentation of 2014 Appropriation Bill to the Ogun State House of Assembly…yesterday. Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday (Tuesday) presented an appropriation bill of N210.2billion for the 2014 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly with a capital expenditure of N117.51bn representing 55.90 percent. The budget, which…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has commenced discussions with the Kuwaiti Fund towards accessing finances for infrastructural development. Namadi Sambo who received the Director – General of the Kuwaiti Fund, Abdulwahab Al-Bader in his Jumeira Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa room recently stated that though Nigeria is a member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), its size and population necessitates a lot of assistance to meet her infrastructural requirements.Sambo explained that Nigeria has a well articulated vision for development known as the Transformation Agenda which aims to address areas militating against the growth of the country. He…

JUBA, South Sudan, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The AU- UN Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, urged tribal leaders in South Darfur to embrace the principle of resolving conflicts through dialogue, negotiations and other peaceful means and to guard against repeating the same patterns that have caused so much suffering in the region. On 19 November, the JSR addressed about 200 tribal leaders from all localities in South Darfur who participated in a two–day conference in Nyala to discuss the root causes of tribal conflict, map them and recommend possible solutions for sustainable peaceful…

WASHINGTON, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — TestimonyRobert P. JacksonPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African AffairsHouse Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs, Global Health, Human Rights and International OrganizationsWashington, DCNovember 19, 2013Thank you very much Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Bass, and Members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to testify before you today on this most important subject. We are deeply concerned about the continuing insecurity, humanitarian crisis and human rights violations across the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). We are working closely with our European allies, the United Nations, and the African Union to press for stability,…

Job Title: Customer Care Representative Location: Lagos, Nigeria Employer: Wakleb Ventures Wakleb Ventures is looking for an energetic and highly experienced personnel. Requirement: Minimum of ONDApply to this job

ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — After keeping a low profile in the earlier stages of the four-stage ECOWAS Cycling tour, Burkina Faso’s Rasmane Ouedraogo on Sunday 17th November 2013 successfully defended the crown he won two years ago, by emerging the overall champion of the 3rd edition of the regional competition.This year’s race, which commenced on November 13 in Lagos, Nigeria, terminated in front of the Palais de Sport, Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire, with Ouedraogo, who claimed to have deployed a new tactics of staying in background, ensuring a superlative finish among the top five in…

JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Harith (http://www.harith.co.za) has concluded the acquisition of the entire shareholding of the Company from the shareholders of FMFML (namely Standard Bank Group Limited (“SBG”), Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (“FMO”) and EMP (Africa), L.L.C. (“EMP Africa”) for an undisclosed sum. The Transaction was subject to the consent of the two debt funds which FMFML exclusively manages, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Limited (“EAIF”) and GuarantCo Limited (“GuarantCo”) (together, “the Funds”). Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/harith.jpgPhoto: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=735 (Tshepo Mahloele, CEO of Harith General Partners)The Funds provide an array of innovative debt products to select emerging…

A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Lawal Wada today November 18, 2013 convicted and sentenced Augustine Olayinka and Oke Anone to eight years imprisonment with option of N100, 000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) fine each. The duo were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday November 14, 2013 on a 6-count charge of forgery. They allegedly presented themselves as sureties to suspects under investigation and submitted fake Certificates of Occupancy for landed properties in the Unguwar Dosa area of Kaduna metropolis as bond to the Commission. One of the charges reads, “that you…

ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Today, the Nigerian Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) conducted a technical walkthrough of a pioneering electronic warehouse receipt platform deployed by Africa Exchange Holdings (AFEX), which enables Nigerian farmers, cooperatives and traders to safely store their produce at accredited warehouses and access financing. Within two months of signing an MOU with FMARD, AFEX has commenced operations of the Warehouse Receipt System – a record speed in public private partnerships.AFEX is the pan-African commodity exchange company founded by Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs…

ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The ECOWAS Commission will present Mali with about half a million US dollars in food aid within the next few weeks to support populations adversely affected by that country’s political and security crises, ECOWAS Commissioner for Human Development and Gender, Dr. Adrienne Diop announced in Bamako on Monday 18th November 2013.In an address at a ceremony for the official deployment of twenty (20) members of the ECOWAS Emergency Response Team (EERT) in the country, the Commissioner said the food items, which include rice, were being procured with the facilitation of the…