Naira In Best Health Against Dollar, Says Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says the naira in its best possible health…
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Firm Begins Construction Of 350 Housing Units
Brains and Hammers Limited, a real estate company, has commenced the construction of 350 units of four-bedroom terraces as part…
Insurance Of The future’ll Be Digital, Says Leadway
Insurance companies that want to remain relevant in the nearest future must consciously create digital channels that are customer friendly,…
ABN Amro To Settle Money Laundering Probe For $574 mln
Dutch bank ABN Amro on Monday said it had reached a 480-million-euro ($574 million) settlement with prosecutors in the Netherlands over…
Make Us Pay Agents For Diaspora Remittances – BDC Operators Tell Central Bank Of Nigeria
The Association of Bureaux de Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make…
Zamfara Govt Expends N2.9bn On Ramadan Welfare – Commissioner
The Zamfara Government says it spent the sum of N2.9 billion on the purchase of essential commodities for distribution to…
Experts Fault CBN Gov, NESG Says N60bn Printing Not Sustainable
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, and a professor of Political Economy, Pat…
Senate Queries FMBN Over N14bn Payment On Legacy Estate
The Senate Public Accounts Committee has sustained the query issued to the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria by the Auditor…
Federal Government Recorded N485.51bn Fiscal Deficit In January – Central Bank Of Nigeria
The Federal Government recorded N485.51bn fiscal deficit in January, statistics obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria have shown. According…
Investor Group Calls For Banks To Set Tougher Climate Targets
A group of investors managing $11 trillion in assets has called on banks to set tougher emissions targets ahead of…
Coinbase Chief Executive Armstrong Sold $291.8 Million In Shares On Opening Day
Coinbase Chief Executive Brian Armstrong sold about $292 million in shares in total during the cryptocurrency exchange’s first day of trading…
Federal Government May Earn N30bn From Cargo Transfer To Onitsha Port, Others
The federal government may have struck gold with the plan movement of cargo from Lagos ports to inland ports across…
Central Bank Of Nigeria Mulls Forex Ban On Sugar, Wheat Importation
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it is planning to include sugar and wheat on the list of import…
Federal Government Supporting Private Developers To Provide Electricity – Osinbajo
The Federal Government is currently supporting private developers to provide electricity through solar energy, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo,…
Govt Begins Commercialisation Of Federal Mortgage Bank
The Federal Government on Thursday announced that it had commenced the process for the full commercialisation of the Federal Mortgage…
Experts Blame Insecurity, Low Production, Forex As Inflation Hits 18.17%
Nigeria’s rate of inflation, which has maintained a continuous increase for more than a year, rose again in March, hitting…
Printed N60bn: Central Bank Nigeria Faults Obaseki, Governor Maintains Stand
The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has urged the Federal Government to take urgent steps to end the current…
Controversial Payment: RCCG Petitioner Apologises As Fashola Faces Senate
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, explained how his Ministry paid N151m to the Cartil…
Nine Power Plants Shut, Federal Government Apologises For Outages
The Federal Government on Thursday said nine power plants were currently shut down, as this was why power outages had…
Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai, Others To Be Sentenced For Illegal Assembly
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and nine other pro-democracy activists are expected to be sentenced on Friday after they…
Senate Confirms Shaba As NASRDA DG
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Halilu Shaba as the Director-General of the National Space Research and…
NAIC Pays N1.7bn Claims To Farmers
The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) said it paid a total of N1.7 billion claims to over 5,000 farmers in…
PenCom Attributes N58bn Decline In Pension Assets To Market Volatility
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has attributed the N58 billion decline in total pension assets from an all-time high value…
Mastercard, Uber Extend Partnership
Uber and Mastercard have extended their partnership with a new strategic initiative focusing on digital payments and advancing financial inclusions.…
Ganduje Disburses N148m To 1,400 Public Schools
The Kano State Governor, Mr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has commenced the disbursement of N148 million upkeep grants for 1,400 public…
How The Pandemic Helped Walmart Battle Amazon Marketplace For Sellers
Between 2009 and 2014, Walmart’s Marketplace business, where outside merchants hawk everything from baby blankets to power tools, counted no…
Is That It? Markets Relax About Inflation Pop
Just as long-dormant inflation finally rears its head again, there are some signs that financial markets may already have overestimated…
UBA Business Series To Equip SMEs With Performance Management Strategies For Organisational Growth
As part of its commitment to support the growth and sustainability of Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSME) in the…
Lagos Muslims To Pay N1.37m For 2021 Hajj
The Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that the least amount to be paid for participation in the…
Pipeline Vandalism Reduced By 37.21% In January – NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Tuesday announced a 37.21 per cent decrease in cases of pipeline vandalism across the…