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Stock Market Reopens Upbeat As Index Rises By 0.33 Percent
Following price gains recorded by most bluechip stocks, transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) reopened…
Nigeria’s Inflation Hits 16.47% As Food Prices Soar To Record High
Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 16.47% (year-on-year) in January 2021 as against 15.75%…
Officialy: Okonjo-Iweala appointed as WTO DG
The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade…
Nigeria Loses N189.90bn To Gas Flaring In 11months
Nigeria lost an estimated N189.90bn from January to November 2020 as international oil companies and local players…
Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission Recognises Cryptocurrencies,…
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, has faulted the recent action of the…
Petrol Price May Hit N190 As Oil Nears $60
Marketers have said with the current realities in the global crude oil markets, the price of Premium Motor Spirit…
Nigerian Central Bank Reportedly Ban Banks From Servicing Crypto Clients
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reportedly issued circular directing financial institutions against dealing…
Small-Stock Mania Calls For Big-Picture Thinking
The GameStop saga is high drama, but is it an invitation to regulation? Securities sheriffs will soon decide. Newly…
‘Naira Depreciation Increases Cost-Input Pressures, Weakens Production’
According to the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), the depreciation in value of the Naira reduces…
Jeff Bezos Is Stepping Down As Amazon CEO
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will step down from his role as chief executive later this year and transition to the…
Wall St. Opens Higher Ahead Of Amazon, Alphabet Earnings; Stimulus In Focus
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Tuesday, building on the previous session’s momentum, as investors…
In blow to Trump, Democrats win Georgia, control of Senate
In big blow to Donald Trump and the Republican party, Democrats appeared to have won the two senate seats in…
Nigeria Plunges Into Second Recession In Five Years
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, has entered its second recession in five years as official figures published on…
#ENDSARS: Lawyer Sues President Buhari, Sanwo-Olu, Others Over Shooting Of…
A legal practitioner, Yusuf Temilola Nurudeen, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and Lagos State governor,…
Lagos Govt Asks Schools To Reopen After Protests
Private and public schools in Lagos State can reopen from Monday, November 2, 2020.
The Commissioner for…
U.S. States Reason For Blocking Okonjo-Iweala At WTO
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has explained why the Trump administration is opposed to the selection…
WTO Panel Recommends Nigeria’s Candidate for Top Post
Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received a key endorsement Wednesday from the World Trade…
Nigeria: Okonjo-Iweala Elected WTO DG
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s nominee for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, has…
Scientists Make Digital Breakthrough In Chemistry That Could Revolutionize The…
In June, the U.S. government purchased the vast majority of world’s supply of remdesivir—a FDA-approved antiviral…
Nigeria Unrest: Protesters ‘Shot’ In Lagos As Millions Put Under…
Protesters have come under gunfire in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, eyewitnesses and local media say, amid…
Gunfire In Nigeria’s Lagos As Curfew Imposed: Witnesses
Footage posted on social media shows several hundred people out demonstrating, in defiance of a curfew imposed…
Dubai-Bound Passenger Held With 5,342 ATM Cards
A man has been arrested with 5,342 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards at the Aminu Kano International Airport,…
London Is Global Corruption’s Top Offender
In May 2016, David Cameron raised an uncomfortable topic. At an anti-corruption summit in London, the former…
Nigeria: Adesina Sworn-In For Another Term As AfDB President
Dr Akinwunmi Adesina has been sworn as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), to serve another five-year…
Nigeria Customs Arrests Two Lebanese With $890,000 At Port Harcourt Airport
The suspects were on Wednesday handed over to the Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for…
Shoprite Begins Moves To Leave Nigeria
South African superstores, Shoprite Holdings Limited, has stated it will auction its outlets in Nigeria, The Nation…
Nigeria Declares Thursday, Friday Public Holidays For Eid-El-Kabir
The Nigerian Government has declared Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July 2020 as public holidays to mark this year’s…
Nigeria: Fed Govt Okays N10.5b For Ports
The Federal Government yesterday approved projects in two memoranda worth above N10.5 billion for the Nigerian…
Tyrese Haspil charged with murdering tech CEO Fahim Saleh
The executive assistant to tech CEO and investor Fahim Saleh was charged Friday with second-degree murder in his…
Gokada CEO Fahim Saleh Found Dead, Dismembered In US
Fahim Saleh, founder and Chief Executive Officer of ride-hailing company Gokada, is dead.
Saleh’ s dismembered…