Business MMIA New Terminal Ready For Use Q1 Dec 13, 2020 0 The newly constructed terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos built by Chinese…
Business Nigeria To Access Vaccine From Jan, Says Okonjo-Iweala Dec 13, 2020 0 Chair of the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has assured that Nigeria and other African…
Business Naira Extends Gains On Dollar At Black Market, Now N476/$1 Dec 13, 2020 0 The Naira extended gains into a second day on Thursday, December 10, appreciating by N2 against the US Dollar at…
Africa Terror Risks Escalate In Africa; Coronavirus Could Make It Worse Dec 12, 2020 0 Terror groups are expanding operations and scaling up attacks in Africa, straining governments ill-prepared to…
Business Nigeria Plans To Approve Covid-19 Vaccine Early Next Year Dec 12, 2020 0 Nigeria expects to license by April one of the vaccines under development globally for Covid-19, the West African…
Business Nigerian Shell Employees Orchestrated Oil Spills For Own Profit: Dutch TV Dec 12, 2020 0 Employees at Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian joint venture orchestrated damage to oil pipelines to profit from the…
Business Canadian Dollar Extends Rally As Oil Benchmark Cracks $50/Bbl Dec 12, 2020 0 The Canadian dollar strengthened to a more-than two-and-a-half-year against its U.S. counterpart on Thursday as oil…
Business World Bank Says 20 Million More Nigerians May Fall Into Poverty Dec 12, 2020 0 The World Bank has predicted that the effects of COVID-19 pandemic could see further drastic deterioration in the…
Business Nigeria’s Manufacturing Sector Moving In Right Direction — Minister Dec 12, 2020 0 Following years of struggle to contribute meaningfully to the country’s GDP, Nigeria’s manufacturing sector will…
Business Opec Output At Seven-Month High In Nov: Correction Dec 12, 2020 0 Opec crude production rose to a seven-month high last month, climbing by 805,000 b/d from October thanks largely to…
Business Fitch Ratings Expects House Prices To Fall Up To 5 Per Cent In 2021 Dec 12, 2020 0 Canada’s housing markets broke records in 2020, even as a global pandemic raged, but prices could be poised to fall…
Business Nigeria May Be On Verge Of Second Wave Of COVID-19 Infections Warns Health… Dec 12, 2020 0 Nigeria may be on the verge of a second wave of COVID-19 infections amid rising number of confirmed cases in…
Africa WEEKAHEAD-AFRICA-FX-Ugandan Currency Firm, Kenya’s, Zambia’s Stable,… Dec 12, 2020 0 Uganda's currency will likely gain against the U.S. dollar next week, while Kenya's and Zambia's are expected to…
Banking Nigeria Needs More Naira Reform For $1.5 Bln World Bank Loan, Country Director… Dec 12, 2020 0 The World Bank needs Nigeria to strengthen reforms of its currency, the naira, before it can approve a $1.5…
Business Mexico Senate Passes Bill To Make The Central Bank Buy Unwanted Dollars Dec 12, 2020 0 Mexico’s Senate approved Wednesday a bill that will force the central bank to buy dollars from banks that can’t…
Business Sterling Extends Losses With UK And EU Still Far Apart In Brexit Talks Dec 12, 2020 0 The Brexit-battered pound extended its losses against the dollar and the euro on Thursday, as investors became…
Business ECB To Go Easy; Brexit Goes Sour Dec 12, 2020 0 Bets on more European Central Bank stimulus kept Europe’s main stock markets and the euro steady on Thursday, but…
Business Euro Stable Ahead Of ECB Stimulus, Pound Dips On Brexit Fears Dec 12, 2020 0 The euro stood its ground on Thursday ahead of the European Central Bank unveiling fresh stimulus measures,…
Business Ports And Cargo Debunks Reports Of Inefficiency Dec 12, 2020 0 Ports and Cargo Handling Services Limited, the flagship and port operations arm of SIFAX Group, has debunked news…
Business Apapa Gridlock: Truck Owners, Port Operators Allege Extortion By Presidential… Dec 12, 2020 0 Importers, clearing agents, truck owners and other operators at the Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports in Lagos have…
Business States Eye Capital Market For Funds To Develop Infrastructure Dec 12, 2020 0 A wave of fundraising by state governments from the capital market through bonds to develop infrastructure is in…
Technology Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit Or Not Dec 12, 2020 0 On the final day of November, Facebook Inc. announced it had bought a customer service software startup most people…
Business Bank Of Canada Stands Pat On Rates Amid Surge In Covid Cases Dec 12, 2020 0 The Bank of Canada stood pat on interest rates and reiterated its commitment to keep them at historic lows to…
Business Crude Oil Remittance: Court Upholds $1.7bn Arbitral Award In Favour Of NPDC Dec 11, 2020 0 The Federal High Court in Lagos has upheld a landmark $1.7billion arbitral award in favour of the Nigerian…
Local Lagos Bans Burial On Residential Premises Dec 11, 2020 0 The Lagos State Government says the use of residential premises as morgues, embalmment centres or burial sites…
Business New Profit Alerts From Nigerian Banks Have Less To Do With Virus Dec 11, 2020 0 It’s not just the pandemic that’s putting Nigerian bank earnings at risk: Competition for customers in the…
Business Pornhub In Trouble: Mastercard, Visa Cut-Off Payments Dec 11, 2020 0 Mastercard said it would no longer process payments for Pornhub. Mastercard has directed the third-party…
Business Pound Drops As Chances Dim For Post-Brexit Trade Deal After ‘Lively’… Dec 11, 2020 0 Sterling slid on Thursday after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von…
Business Banking, FMCG, Industrial Stocks Drag Nigeria Bourse Down As Negative Sentiments… Dec 11, 2020 0 It was a negative outing at the Nigerian equities market on Tuesday as persistent profit-taking activities, which…
Business How Oil Majors Shift Billions In Profits To Island Tax Havens Dec 11, 2020 0 Bermuda and the Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world. They don’t produce any of the fuels at…