Africa The Pains Of Doing Business Online In Africa Mar 4, 2021 0 With an estimated population of 1.216 billion people, you will agree with me that Africa is a great continent. But,…
Business Emefiele Rules Out Foreign Investors’ Exclusion From OMO Mar 4, 2021 0 Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) will not be barred from participating in the Open Market Operations (OMO)…
Business Nigeria Signs Fresh Five-Plug Bilateral Deal On Industrial Growth Mar 4, 2021 0 Nigeria has signed a $1.4 billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Morocco to enhance its industrial capacity…
Business Deliveroo To Deliver $7 Billion Dual-Class London Listing Mar 4, 2021 0 Deliveroo plans a London stock market listing that could value the British food delivery firm at around $7 billion…
Business Monde Nissin Seeks $1.3 Billion In Philippines’ Biggest Ipo Mar 4, 2021 0 Philippine food maker Monde Nissin Corp. filed for an initial public offering to raise as much as 63 billion pesos…
Features Federal Government Of Nigeria Denies Allocating Vaccines To Rich Nigerian Mar 4, 2021 0 The Federal Government of Nigeria has insisted that the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines currently in the…
Business The Leadership Of Cattle And Foodstuff Dealers Under The Aegis Of Amalgamated… Mar 4, 2021 0 The leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers…
World World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Puts Japan’s Kirin On Watch List Over… Mar 4, 2021 0 The Norwegian central bank said on Wednesday it had put Japan’s Kirin Holdings Ltd Co on a watch list for possible…
Opinion Lufthansa Weighs More Aircraft Retirements After Record Loss Mar 4, 2021 0 Lufthansa may permanently ground more planes to emerge leaner from the coronavirus pandemic, the German airline…
Business Bond Scares Spook World Shares, Investors Look To Powell Mar 4, 2021 0 Resurgent worries about rising U.S. bond yields hit global shares on Thursday as investors waited to see if Federal…
Business Germany’s Merck KGaA Predicts Earnings Gain In 2021 Mar 4, 2021 0 Germany’s Merck KGaA predicted further earnings gains in 2021 as an effort by the pharma industry to ready…
Banking Bank Of Japan Shares Hit Upper Limit For Fourth Session, Nearly Doubling This Week Mar 4, 2021 0 Shares in the Bank of Japan, one of only a handful of central banks that are publicly listed, hit their upper limit…
Business Britain Launches New Pandemic Loan Support Scheme Mar 4, 2021 0 Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday launched a new state-backed loan scheme for businesses hit by…
Business Central Bank Of Nigeria Votes N50b For Commodity Exchange Mar 4, 2021 0 The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has committed N50 billion into the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) to boost…
Business Oil Extends Gains On Prospect Of OPEC+ Sticking With Supply Cuts Mar 4, 2021 0 Oil prices rose for a second straight session on Thursday, as the possibility that OPEC+ producers might decide…
Opinion Texas Power Grid Operator ERCOT Fires CEO After Deadly Blackouts Mar 4, 2021 0 Texas’ power grid operator ousted chief executive Bill Magness on Wednesday, as the fallout continues from a deadly…
Business UK New Car Sales Slump In February Amid COVID-19 Hit Mar 4, 2021 0 British new car registrations fell by roughly 36% year-on-year in February, according to preliminary data from an…
Business Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, OCP Morocco Seal $1.4bn Deal To Produce… Mar 3, 2021 0 The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has sealed a $1.4bn deal with the OCP of Morocco as well as the …
Business SMEs Report Rise In Demand As Nigeria PMI Swings Back To Positive Mar 3, 2021 0 Nigeria’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a gauge for manufacturing sentiments, moved back into…
Business E-Payments In Nigeria Decline Across All Channels Mar 3, 2021 0 The value of electronic payment (e-Payment) transactions in Nigeria fell month-on-month, MoM, by 10 per cent to…
Africa The African Union Claims 300m Africans Live 50km Away From Broadband Connections Mar 3, 2021 0 The African Union (AU) has noted that though there has been a huge expansion of fibre optic networks on the…
Business Volkswagen CEO Tweets, Musk-Style, On Market-Cap Milestone Mar 3, 2021 0 When the market value of Germany’s Volkswagen rose above the 100-billion-euro mark on Wednesday for the first time…
Business S&P 500, Nasdaq Fall As High-Flying Tech Stocks Slide Mar 3, 2021 0 Wall Street’s major indexes dropped on Wednesday, weighed down by technology stocks as investors unwound positions…
Business One Year After ‘Ending’ Subsidy, Federal Government Of Nigeria Eats Its Words Mar 3, 2021 0 Keeping the price of petrol unchanged at N162 despite increasing international crude cost is a clear indication…
Business U.S. Energy Secretary Readies $40 Billion In Loans To Boost Clean Energy Mar 3, 2021 0 U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Wednesday she is ready to use $40 billion in her department’s loan…
Technology General Motors Extends Vehicle Production Cuts Due To Semiconductor Chip Shortage Mar 3, 2021 0 General Motors Co said on Wednesday it was further extending production cuts at three North American plants and…
Business Tangerine Life Completes Merger With ARM Life Mar 3, 2021 0 Tangerine Life Insurance Limited (previously known as Metropolitan Life Insurance Nigeria Limited), has, concluded…
Business GlobalFoundries Pours $1.4 Billion Into Fab Expansion Amid Chip Demand Boom Mar 3, 2021 0 GlobalFoundries will invest $1.4 billion this year to raise output at three factories in the United States,…
Business Samsung Considers Four Sites In U.S. For $17 Billion Chip Plant: Documents Mar 3, 2021 0 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is considering two sites in Arizona and another one in New York in addition to Austin,…
Banking African Development Bank Backs Digital Currencies, Seeks Gender Inclusion Mar 3, 2021 0 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has thrown its weight behind digital currencies, putting in motion a machinery…