NGX Pushes Ahead With Retail Participation Drive
The Nigerian Exchange Limited has announced that it will be holding its fourth retail investor workshop in 2021 in…
SEC Urges Firms To Tap Islamic Capital Market
The Securities and Exchange Commission has advised corporate organisations to leverage the Islamic capital market,…
China’s JD.com Smashes Through Its Singles Day Record With $48.7 Billion In Sales…
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has racked up 311.4 billion yuan ($48.6 billion) in sales across its platforms as…
Indonesia’s Tech Giant GoTo Group Raises $1.3 Billion Ahead Of IPO Plans
Indonesia’s GoTo Group has secured $1.3 billion from investors in the first close of an ongoing funding round ahead…
FG To Mandate Ownership Disclosure Of Oil Assets To Curb $1tr Losses
The Federal Government, through the recently established Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC)…
Meta And Microsoft Announce Partnership To Integrate Workplace And Teams
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Wednesday announced a partnership with Microsoft that will allow…
Nigeria’s 5G Reserve Price Of $197.4m Among World’s Costliest
Price at par with USA, Germany, China but ahead of India, S’Africa, Egypt
With the Federal Government optimistic…
Meta To Delete Ads Capable Of Fueling Negative Experience Across Its Platforms
Meta, the parent company that oversees Facebook, Instagram and Messenger has reinforced commitment to protecting…
Elon Musk Sells $5 Billion In Tesla Shares After Twitter Poll
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk sold about $5 billion in shares, the billionaire reported in filings on Wednesday,…
NNPC Plans To Rebuild Badagry Expressway Under Tax Credit Scheme
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has resolved to rebuild the Badagry Expressway under the Federal…
Construction Giant Ronchess PLC Gets Listed In The Nigerian Stock Exchange
The Nigerian Exchange (formerly known as the Nigerian Stock Exchange), has approved the listing of Ronchess Global…
Nigeria Holds 29% Africa’s Total Oil Reserve – OPEC
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said Africa’s proven oil reserves reached 126 billion…
Emirates’ Loss Narrows To $1.6bn As Travel Restrictions Ease
Emirates Group has reported that its net loss for the first half of the 2021/2022 financial year fell to $1.6bn…
150,000 Farmers To Benefit As CBN flags Off Wheat Production Programme
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has flagged off the Nigerian Brown Revolution, an intervention programme to boost…
FEC Approves 2021-2025 National Development Plan, Projects N348.7tn Investments
The Federal Executive Council presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday approved the 2021-2025…
World Bank Demands Debt Transparency, Says Nigeria, Others Need $429bn
The World Bank has demanded debt transparency as a crucial step in countries’ development process, while it…
France Asks Nigeria To Create Enabling Environment For French Companies
Franck Riester, French minister of foreign trade and economic attractiveness, says Nigeria needs to create an…
Emefiele Woos Foreign Investors In France
The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has invited foreign investors to consider Nigeria as their…
‘You’ve Been Inconsistent’ — BudgIT Asks NBS To Publish Data On FAAC Disbursement
BudgIT Foundation, a civic-tech organisation, has called on the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to publish data…
Didi Prepares To Relaunch Apps In China, Anticipates Probe Will End Soon
Didi Global is preparing to relaunch its ride-hailing and other apps in China by the end of the year in…
Aviation Fuel Price Rises By 70%, International Airlines May Raise Fares
The International Air Transport Association has said the price of jet fuel has continued to increase in recent…
Naira Gains 3.6% To Trade N540/$1 At Parallel Market
The Nigerian naira has appreciated by 3.6% to N540/$1 at the parallel market — almost four months after the Central…
Senate Approves Buhari’s $16 Billion, €1 Billion Loan Requests
The upper legislative chamber also approved grant components of $125 million.
The president had requested the…
Rolls Royce Launches New Brand Amid Market Enthusiasm
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Lagos has announced the debut of the latest brand under its Black Badge model, Ghost, amid…
Billionaire Aliko Dangote’s Net Worth Rises To $19.2bn From $17.8bn In August
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has significantly moved up in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as his fortune…
P&G Nigeria Gets New MD
Procter & Gamble has appointed Mokutima Ajileye as the Managing Director for the Nigeria market.
According…
General Electric Broken Into Three Companies
General Electric Co (GE) has announced the splitting of its conglomerate into three public companies, in an effort…
Johnson & Johnson Wins Reprieve Over $465M Opiod Judgment
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit…
Asia Stocks Mixed; Shares Of Chinese Developer Fantasia Plunge In Return To Trade
Shares in Asia-Pacific were mixed on Wednesday as investors reacted to the release of Chinese inflation data…
UK Buy Now, Pay Later Start-Up Quadruples Valuation To $2 Billion, Plans U.S.…
British start-up Zilch is riding the “buy now, pay later” wave to America.
The London-based company said…