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Skye Bank fires 200 staff

Skye bank yesterday June 6th, laid off 200 of its staff, disregarding the Federal government directive to all banks to halt all retrenchment exercise. According to the management of the bank, the sacking of 200 of its workers was because the affected staff failed in their 2015 appraisal. The affected workers got to work yesterday only to be handed their termination of appointment letters and severance packages. Last week, Ecobank fired 1040 of its staff while Diamond bank sacked 200 members of its staff.

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Johnson Sirleaf is new ECOWAS chairperson

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have elected President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as its new chairperson. This was announced at the 49th ECOWAS heads of state meeting which opened in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday. She replaces Senegalese President, Macky Sall whose tenure ends after he took over from Ghana’s President John Mahama in 2015. (more…)