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Gov. Abiodun Reacts As Women Protest Exclusion

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, has promised women in the state that more of them would be appointed in the State Executive Council, as well as agencies and boards.

Abiodun, who spoke following the recently released list of commissioners, said the list was not exhaustive, adding that new commissioner positions reserved exclusively for women would be unveiled shortly.

NAN reports that women groups in their large numbers besieged the entrance of the governor’s office protesting the exclusion of women in the government.

They tagged the exercise ‘Occupy Oke-mosan’ .

The governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press …

‘Fintech; Panacea For Exclusion, Funding Impasse In Nigeria

‘Fintech; Panacea For Exclusion, Funding Impasse In Nigeria

The advent of Financial Technology (Fintech), a combination of technology and innovative business models in financial services, has gained considerable momentum in recent times, with global investments rising at exponential rates.

It holds the potential to revolutionise the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) financing, as it can offer unprecedented solutions to deal effectively with the main barriers that SMEs face in financial markets- information asymmetries and collateral shortage.

Indeed, digital technologies, such as online and mobile banking and payment solutions, have had an important impact on traditional SME financing.

They allow financiers to considerably lower transaction costs when reaching out …