Day: March 12, 2021
Bridging Gender Gap To Boost Economic Prosperity In Post-Covid Era
Women across the world face tougher economic prospects than men and the coronavirus pandemic has only made things worse. Women…
Private Sector To Boost Employability Skills Of 1000 Youths
Metanoia Africa and CAIN Africa are partnering with Jobberman to provide free soft skills training for 1000 young people. Participation in the…
Wema Bank Marks IWD, Offers Loan For Female Business Owners
Wema Bank through its female proposition, Sara by Wema will mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) with a webinar…
Shipping Institute Wants FG Develop Delta Ports With Ibori Loot
Capt. Tony Onoharigho, President, Nigerian Institute of Shipping, on Friday urged the Federal Government to use the repatriated James Ibori…
Higher Yields For Investors As T-Bill Rates To Near Double-Digit In H1
Fixed-income investors seeking high-yielding securities in the markets will not be disappointed in the first half of 2021 as analysts…
Higher Inflation Looms As Federal Government Increases Petrol Price To N212.61 Per Litre
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has announced an increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise…
Bureaux De Change’s Wage War Against Forex Speculators, Black Market Dealers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-licenced Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators have declared operational war against foreign exchange speculators and…
PDP Governors Seek Financial Assistance From Buhari
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from a five-hour meeting in Abuja, yesterday, to…
The Corporate Taxman Cometh
Global investors are obsessing about borrowing costs, discount rates and inflation risks as the world emerges from the shocking pandemic…
Netflix May Crack Down On Password Sharing
If you’re using your sister’s boyfriend’s dad’s Netflix account — listen up. The streaming giant is testing a new feature that could…
Trump, Estranged From Presidents Club, Excluded From Predecessors’ PSA
When President Donald Trump received his Covid-19 vaccine at the White House in January, it was not recorded by official photographers or videographers, according to a…
Coronavirus Vaccination: No Adverse Reaction From President Buhari, Others – NPHCDA
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said that since the country commenced its COVID-19 vaccination, no Nigerian…
How Generals Ironsi, Gowon, Obasanjo Laid Foundation For Insecurity – Sultan
The chairman of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III,…
Six Coal Miners killed In Blast In Pakistan’s Southwest
Six miners have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan,…
Investors Dump Bonds And Gold, Pile Into Equities
Investors piled into equities, while pulling money out of gold and bonds in the week up to March 10, data…
Exclusive: Posco’s Steel Plant In India Faces Disruption, Hampering Auto Supply Chain
Operations at South Korean steelmaker Posco’s plant in India’s western state of Maharashtra have been disrupted by protests over labour…
Britain’s Burberry To Beat Forecasts After Sales Rebound
British luxury group Burberry said on Friday it would beat market forecasts for profits and revenues in its final quarter…
Power To The Beeple: Digital Art Fetches $69.3M At Auction
American artist Beeple became the first to sell a purely digital piece of artwork at auction, fetching more than $69.3m…
Syria: Oil Refinery Attacks Raise Fears Of ‘Grave Escalation’
Attacks on rural Aleppo that caused severe damage to oil facilities have been described as “state terrorism” by the Syrian…
Between UK’s Diplomats And Nigeria’s New Ambassadors
he United Kingdom’s current High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, trended lately. The occasion was when she rejoiced with a…
Danjuma-Led COVID-19 Task Force Spends N3.3bn
The General TY Danjuma-led Victim Support Funds Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday said it had so far spent N3.3bn…
AstraZeneca Vaccine Has No Side Effect –NAFDAC DG
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, says the Astrazeneca vaccine…
#FuelPriceHike: No Increase In Petrol Depot Price This Month, NNPC Insists
he Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has insisted that there is no increment in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit…
Manufacturers Unable To Access Central Bank Of Nigeria’s N1tn Stimulus Facility—MAN
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has lamented the difficulty in accessing the Central Bank’s N1tn COVID-19 Stimulus for Manufacturing and…
EFCC Arraigns Three FIRS Directors, Six Other Officers For N4.5 Billion Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, arraigned Peter Hena, former Coordinating Director of Federal Inland Revenue Service,…
UK Exports To EU Slump In First Month Of New Brexit Trade Ties
Exports and imports from Britain to the European Union plunged during the first month of the country’s new trade relationship…
ECB’s Villeroy Flags Flexibility On Bond Purchases
The European Central Bank will be flexible at all levels in its bond purchases, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau…
Southeast Asia’s Grab In Talks For U.S. Listing Via $40 Billion SPAC Deal: Sources
Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm Grab Holdings is in talks to go public through a merger with…
As vaccine Nationalism Deepens, Governments Pay To Bring Production Home
In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up…