Lloyds Banking Group is floating 25% of TSB, with small investors being offered free shares in the newly-listed bank. Investors will get one free share for every 20 shares they buy (up to the value of £2,000) and hold for a period of one year after the flotation.
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What does it take to become a master at your craft? Is genius innate, or can it be learned? In his book, "Mastery," Robert Greene draws from the latest research, interviews modern masters, and examines the lives of former greats like Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Mozart to discover what it takes to achieve excellence.
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Now that you understand why you need a business plan and you've spent some time doing your homework gathering the information you need to create one, it's time to roll up your sleeves and get everything down on paper. The following pages will describe in detail the seven essential sections of a business plan: what you should include, what you shouldn't include, how to work the numbers and additional resources you can turn to for help. With that in mind, jump right in.
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Getting rich and becoming a millionaire is a taboo topic. Saying it can be done by the age of 30 seems like a fantasy. It shouldn’t be taboo and it is possible. At the age of 21, I got out of college, broke and in debt, and by the time I was 30, I was a millionaire. Here are the 10 steps that will guarantee you will become a millionaire by 30.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday urged the Federal Government to invest in cost-effective intervention programmes that could make child birth safe for every woman. The WHO Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr Ruiz Vaz, made the call in Abuja when he addressed newsmen as part of activities to commemorate the 2014 Safe Motherhood Day.
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The Enugu State Government on Thursday awarded N2.6 billion contract for the supply and installation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) facilities in the new state secretariat. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Chuks Ugwoke, made this known when he briefed newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council in Enugu.
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The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday directed that all charges on deposits should be stopped with immediate effect. Emefiele gave this directive at a news briefing to unveil his policy for the apex bank in Abuja. “We have become aware of the complaints by customers regarding the charges being imposed for cash deposits.
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Exports of US gasoline were 35 percent above the five-year average in 2013, and are forecast to climb further in 2014, as refinery outages and rising consumption boost shipments to Brazil, Colombia and Nigeria. Deliveries to Nigeria more than doubled in 2013 from a year earlier, according to the IEA. Nigeria’s economy is forecast to increase by 7.1 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Lafarge SA, the French cement maker that plans to merge with Holcim Limited of Switzerland to become the world’s biggest producer of the building material, will combine Nigerian and South African assets to form a new company to compete with Africa market leader Dangote Cement plc. The entity will be known as Lafarge Africa plc and be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the Paris-based company said in a statement recently.
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Nigerian stocks rose 7.75 percent in May, helping to erase year-to-date losses for the All Share Index (ASI), as the rebalancing in the MSCI index attracted funds to the bourse. The MSCI, whose indices are followed by billions of US dollars from institutional investors, has increased the weighting of Nigeria’s equity market on its popular MSCI Frontier markets to about 19 percent, up from 12 percent previously.
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