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This tradition firmly established newspapers as a means to advocate for political reform and accountability, roles they continue to fulfill in Nigeria today. Until the 1990s, most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Daily Trust , Next , Nigerian Tribune , The Punch , Vanguard and the Guardian continued to expose ...
Tata Trusts India: Mumbai: $100+ billion 1919 [5] 3 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation United States: Seattle: $50.2 billion 2000 [6] 4 Wellcome Trust United Kingdom: London: $42.8 billion £34.6 billion 1936 [7] 5 Stichting INGKA Foundation Netherlands: Leiden: $37.3 billion €34.3 billion 1982 [8] 6 Mastercard Foundation Canada: Toronto: $31.5 ...
Media Trust is a privately held Nigerian newspaper publishing company based in Abuja that publishes the English-language Daily Trust, Weekly Trust, Sunday Trust and the Hausa-language Aminiya newspapers, as well as a new pan-African magazine, Kilimanjaro. It is one of the leading media companies in Nigeria. [1] [permanent dead link ]
Premium Trust Bank is a Nigerian commercial bank that is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the national banking regulator. [1] The bank offers personal, corporate, private and SME Banking. [2] As of February 2023, the bank has 8 branches in Nigeria. [3] Premium Trust Bank was founded by Emmanuel Emefienim. [4] [5]
On 26 July 2007, GTBank became the very first Subsaharan bank and first Nigerian joint stock company to be listed on London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse. The IPO raised US$750,000,000. [9] In the same year, they successfully placed Nigeria's first private Eurobond issue on the international capital markets. [10]
Titan Trust Bank was established on 12 December 2018 and received its national banking license in April 2019, to operate as a commercial bank. [5] In June 2021, they got approval to collect fees on behalf of the federal government under the Nigeria Export Supervision Scheme (NESS). [6] The bank has branches in Lagos [7] and Kano State. [8]
After Nigeria gained independence in the 1960s, while many publications were under government control, privately-owned newspapers such as the Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, Vanguard, and The Guardian continued to report on corruption in public and private sectors despite government censorship. [3]
SunTrust was incorporated and founded in 2009 by Chief Executive, Muhammad Jibrin Barde as a mortgage bank and later converted to a commercial Bank. It was granted a regional commercial banking license by the Central Bank of Nigeria in November 2015, being the first commercial bank to receive a banking license since 2001, bringing the total of licensed commercial banks in Nigeria, at that time ...