Why CBN Licensed Payment Service Banks
Bank account ownership is quite compulsory in many developed countries of the world. Research shows…
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Sterling Pushed Up By Weaker U.S. Dollar, Hopes Of Brexit Deal
Sterling traded at a one-week high on Wednesday, helped by a weaker U.S. dollar and…
Sliding Dollar Steadies As Virus Worries Persist
The dollar nursed losses on Thursday following five sessions of declines as investors’ longer-term optimism…
Nigeria Needs 19 Million New Jobs Yearly
The Chairman of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, Prof. Doyin Salami, has said Nigeria needs…
Investors Gain N300bn As Equities Market Rebounds
Trading at the Nigerian equities market yesterday closed positive for the first time this week…
Rewane Foresees Bright Economic Outlook For Nigeria In 2021
The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Mr. Bismarck Rewane has…
Dollar Shortage Further Cracks Naira To N470
The Naira showed no sign of improvement on Wednesday as the incessant shortage of the…
Nigeria:N69.4bn Debt AMCON Seizes Jimoh Ibrahim’s Properties, Freezes Accounts
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has taken over 12 assets belonging to Chairman of…
Nigeria: Manufacturing PMI Records Expansion After Six Months Contraction
MONEY MARKET The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for November 2020 recorded expansion after six…
Nigerian Stock Exchange Members Back Flotation Plan
The Nigerian bourse won approval from its members on Wednesday for a stock market flotation…
KLM Announces Return To Nigeria In December
Stories by David Agba with agency report KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Wednesday announced it would…
Dollar Falls For Fifth Day As Vaccine Hopes Outweigh Spike In COVID Cases
The dollar slipped for a fifth straight session on Wednesday, sliding to a more than…
Yen Claws Back Ground As Looming Winter Chills Vaccine Cheer
The safe-haven Japanese yen sat near a one-week high and a steady U.S. dollar held…
Nigeria’s Christians Become Target Of Genocide As International Community Remains Silent: Advocates
The religious persecution of Christians in Nigeria is teetering on genocide, religious leaders and foreign…
COVID-19: Economic Crisis May Cause Banks To Fail Stress-Tests
The coronavirus pandemic has deeply impacted the situation in the world – especially the economic…
This Nigerian Researcher Studies The ‘Hidden Harvests’ Of Small-Scale Fisheries
With World Fisheries Day coming up on November 21, Nigerian researcher Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya is…
UK Hopes To Get A Brexit Trade Deal, Business Minister Sharma Says
Britain hopes to get a Brexit trade deal but the European Union must understand that…
U.S. Ends Boeing 737 MAX Flight Ban After Crash Probes0
Boeing Co won approval on Wednesday from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly its…
Oil Companies Tighten Nigeria Security As Protests, Job Losses Stoke Tension
Oil companies have asked security services to tighten surveillance as violent anti-police brutality protests and…
Naira Gains N1.20 Against Dollar At I&E Segment
During the trading session, the local currency gained 0.31 per cent or N1.20 to quote…
Europe Is Planning Its Very Own E-Currency
The European Central Bank appears serious about a digital euro. Barely a month after the…
How Nigeria’s New Banks Law, BOFIA, Will Impact Financial Sector
In assenting into law of the BOFIA 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari said the new legislation…
Naira Devaluation Pushes FAAC Disbursement To N2trn In Q3 — Highest In 2020
This is contained in the quarterly review report released by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency…
Interest In Euro As A Reserve Currency Growing – ESM CFO
Interest in the euro as a reserve currency is growing and the single currency is…
Profit Taking Shrinks Nigeria Bourse Into Red Zone As Investors Take Bearish Posture
Profit-taking in Nigeria’s domestic equities market saw investors maintain their bearish stance on Tuesday as…
$30b Fuels Import Outlay Present Energy Security Challenges
Industry stakeholders, yesterday, expressed concerns over the state of Nigeria’s petroleum downstream and of other…
FX May Be A Better Hedge Than Bonds In A Near-Zero World
Bonds aren’t quite the hedge against equity losses that they used to be, and that…
Bitcoin Closes In On All-Time High As It Blasts Through $18K
Bitcoin’s price broke through $18,000 in what some experts are attributing to global events and…
Four Key Risks Could Make 2021 The Toughest Year For Banks Since 2009, Says S&P
S&P Global Ratings warned that banks could face their toughest year since the aftermath of…
Opec+ Turns Down Nigeria’s Request To Review Quota
The Opec+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) has declined an informal request from Nigeria to…