Dangote Cement, Zenith Bank, Access Holdings, Seplat Energy, AIICO Insurance, Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO), First HoldCo, NEM Insurance, and AXA Mansard Insurance have been recognised among Nigeria’s high-performing companies at the maiden edition of the NextMoney Top 100 Companies Awards.
The event, organised by NextMoney Magazine, a publication of the Centre for Financial Journalism (CFJ), was held on Friday, October 3, 2025, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. It celebrated publicly listed companies on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) based on their 2024 audited financial reports.
History was made on the evening of Monday, January 27, in Lagos at the colourful Thisday Awards ceremony when serial digital entrepreneur, Leo Stan Ekeh, shared the same podium with his son, Prince Nnamdi Ekeh, as winners in different categories of the much-coveted awards. The awards commemorated the 30th and 12th anniversaries of Thisday Newspapers and Arise News, respectively.
While the father, who is the Chairman of Zinox Group, was honoured as CEO of the Year, his Oxford-trained son, Prince, the CEO of Konga Group, was decorated with the Young Global Leader Award for his transformative role in navigating Konga as a foremost composite e-commerce giant in Nigeria and Africa. It was historic, being the first time ever that a father and his son would be honoured on the same night in the nation’s Infotech ecosystem.
NCS pride itself as the umbrella organization of all information technology professionals, interest groups and stakeholders in Nigeria, whilst using the National IT Merit Awards (NITMA) is an annual event to acknowledge, celebrate and reward individuals and corporate organisations who are committed and outstanding in their various Information Technology (IT) practice and have also contributed immensely to the development of the profession in the country.
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