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Lagos Tops As States Half Year IGR Reaches N849.12 Billion
The 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory recorded a combined Internationally Generated Revenue…
Don’t Create Artificial Fuel Scarcity, NNPC Cautions Nigerians
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has once cautioned members of the public against engaging in…
British Government Sells About £400 Million Of NatWest Shares
The U.K. government has sold roughly 400 million pounds ($540 million) worth of shares in NatWest Group Plc in the…
Pound Recoups Some Post-BOE Losses, Holds Near 5-Week Low
The pound rose on Monday off five-week lows touched last week against the dollar and euro, clawing back some of the…
Nigerians Are Safe With 5G Network – FG Clarifies
The Executive Vice Chairman of the National Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta on Monday in Abuja again…
Uber Posts Net Loss Of $2.4 Billion In Q3, But Delivery Business Outperforms
On Thursday, November 4, 2021, Uber announced its third-quarter earnings. In after-hours trading, shares rose 1%…
E-Naira Complete N46.3Million Transactions Since Launching
The eNaira, Africa’s first digital currency, successfully completed N46.3 million worth of transactions in less…
Meta (Facebook) Plans To Open It’s First Retail Store
Meta is in discussion and may soon open its first retail store as it looks to break into the metaverse to allow the…
Nigeria: Private Sector Credit Hit N33.8 Trillion
Nigeria’s credit to the private sector ballooned to another all-time high of N33.8 trillion as of September 2021.…
Shares In Asia-Pacific Market Mixed; Bitcoin Touches Record High
Shares in Asia-Pacific were mixed in Monday trade following overnight gains on Wall Street that took the major…
CBN 100 For 100 PPP Maximum Is N5 Billion
The Central Bank of Nigeria has fixed the maximum loan amount that a participant in its newly introduced…
Rainoil Acquires Majority Stake In Eterna Plc
Rainoil Limited, a leading player in the downstream oil and gas industry, has completed the acquisition of majority…
Cryptocurrency Market Now Worth Over $3 Billion
The world cryptocurrency market is worth more than $3 trillion for the first time, according to calculations…
Yuan Steady Against A Firm Dollar After Strong China Trade Data
The yuan hovered around 6.40 per dollar on Monday as strong Chinese trade data lent support and
helped offset…
Customs Explores E-Naira For Duty Collection
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has expressed readiness to begin collection of import duty with the e-naira that…
Freight Forwarders Vowed To Resume Industrial Action
Freight forwarders have vowed to resume the suspended industrial action at the expiration of a new notice issued to…
N4tr Power Liquidity Crisis: Stakeholders Urge CBN To Review Interventions
Stakeholders in the Nigerian power sector are unsettled on the need for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to…
CBN Confiscates 67,000 Counterfeit Naira Notes In 2020
Higher banknotes’ share of value of currency in circulation is 98%
A total of 67,265 banknotes with a nominal…
Japan Economic Stimulus Seen Topping $265 Billion, Require New Debt
Japan is considering an economic stimulus package worth more than 30 trillion yen ($265 billion) aimed at easing…
China’s Crude Oil Imports Plunged In Oct Fall To Lowest In Three Years
China’s crude oil imports plunged in October to the lowest since September 2018, as large state-owned refiners…
CBN’s Suspension Of Foreign Exchange Supply To BDCs Boosts Banks’ Income As 6 DMBs…
With Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) suspending Foreign Exchange (FX) supply to Bureau De Changes (BDCs), a total of…
Still On Osinbajo’s Call To Float Naira
What other options do we have to increase the supply side of forex to the Nigerian economy, or do we continue with…
US-Based At One Ventures Leads Round For Electric Vehicle Manufacturer
Opibus, the first company in Kenya to commercially future-proof diesel and gasoline vehicles by converting them to…
Nigerian Stock Exchange Dropped By 0.06 Percent
The Nigerian stock market lost N12.58bn last week as investors took profits in oil and gas, banking and consumer…
MDA Bank Charges And Insurance Premiums Expected To Amount To N22.6 Billion
Deposit Money Banks and insurance companies are expected to rake in the sum of N22.6bn in bank charges…
Bitcoin Hit All Time High
Bitcoin rose to a two-and-a-half-week peak on Monday and ether climbed to a fresh record as cryptocurrencies ride…
Here’s What Citigroup to Goldman Say About Oil After OPEC+ Move
OPEC+ stuck to its guns and maintained its modest output boost for December as the alliance shunned calls from key…
Apple Employs Former Tesla Engineer To Boost Car Development Effort
Apple has hired a former engineer from Tesla Inc to boost its car-development efforts, Bloomberg News reported on…
U.S. Senate Introduce Bill To Limit Big Tech Mergers
Two U.S. senators have introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to make it harder for Amazon.com and other tech…
N58.6Billion Spent To Print N1.06Trillion In 2020 – Central Bank Of Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it spent N58.618 billion to print 2.518 billion of naira notes, valued at…