Shareholders Approve Total’s New Identity, Call For Increased Dividend
Shareholders of Total Plc have approved the company’s resolution to change its identity to TotalEnegies.
The firm also moves to anchor its business into a broad energy company.
At the company’s Extra Ordinary General Meeting held in Lagos, the shareholders said that the name change would boost the firm’s profitability and increase shareholders’ value.
Commenting on the development, the Founder of the Independence Shareholders Association of Nigeria, Sir Sunny Nwosu enjoyed he management to ensure that every segment of business contributes to the overall growth of the company.
He expressed the need for the company to stay ahead of trends and ain competitive in the industry.
Also, the President of Pragmatic Shareholders Association of Nigeria, Mrs Bisi Bakare commended the management for the smooth running of the affairs of the company, especially their dividend policy, urging them to ensure that all the segments is profitable.
Managing Director, Imrane Barry said the transformation would enable the company produce and market energies on a global scale in oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.
Cybersecurity: CSCS Advocates Collective Responsibility
Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc, Nigeria’s capital market infrastructure, advanced its advocacy for cybersecurity as it drums up support for cyber vigilance across all stakeholders.
The company in this year’s annual conference with the theme “Cyber Security: The Challenges We Face Today”, CSCS pooled leading industry professionals in Information Technology and Cybersecurity to discuss innovative ways of enhancing security architecture of firms, with emphasis on the role of different stakeholders, especially employees and customers in protecting the integrity of information technology networks and systems.
In his opening remarks, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of CSCS Plc, Mr. Haruna Jalo-Waziri said: “the conference, the third in the series, is timely given the increasing global incidence of cyber-attacks, especially as network compromise arising from remote connections associated with work-from-home presents new forms of cybersecurity exposures. The prolonged pandemic occasioned by COVID-19 has increased digitization and adoption of new technologies, albeit presenting new risks to cybersecurity”.
According to him “As we surf the internet and connect to different applications either on our official networks or personal devices, we need to protect ourselves and our ecosystem from the rising vulnerabilities of cybercrimes.
