Hot Inflation May Have Become Scorching In May And Is Expected To Hit A 28-Year…
Inflation has been warming up this spring, and it’s expected to hit historical levels for the month of May.…
More Than 2.3 Million New Stimulus Checks Have Been Sent. Here’s Who Will Get The…
More than 2.3 million new stimulus checks have been sent, representing over $4.2 billion in payments to…
Facebook Extends Its Work-at-Home Policy To Most Employees
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the company will allow all full-time employees to work from…
Nigeria Coconut Market Worth Over $6 Billion – Minister
The Minister of State Industry Trade & Investment, Marian Katagum, has advised coconut farmers to harness the…
Buy Pound To Dollar Rate, Target 1.4585 Say MUFG
MUFG expects that the UK economic recovery will continue to gain traction with expectations of a Bank of England…
Ahead Of Next Treasury Bills Auction Scheduled For 9th Of June 2021
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will hold a Treasury Bills (T-Bills) Primary Market Auction (PMA) on the 9 th of…
World Bank Raises Nigeria’s 2021 Growth Forecast To 1.8%
Deutsche Bank: Global economic crisis imminent amid rising inflation
The World Bank has raised Nigeria’s 2021…
Trump Congratulates Nigeria, Which He Once Called A ‘S—Hole’…
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday congratulated Nigeria for blocking Twitter. Trump once referred to African…
Oil Prices And Foreign Exchange (FX) Reserves
One can almost hear the sigh of relief coming from Abuja. Oil prices are up and the immediate threat to the…
How Graft At Seaports Fuels Nigeria’s Poor Rating On Global Corruption Index
Stakeholders in the maritime sector have lamented how corruption in Nigeria’s seaports has marred the…
Anxiety As CBN Raises Customs Exchange Rate For Cargo Clearance To N404.97/ $1
There was uneasy calm at the nation’s seaports on Tuesday following an increase in the exchange rate for cargo…
Bitcoin Fall Has Strategists Eyeing Possible Drop To $20,000
Another bad week for Bitcoin could be a precursor of more pain to come, according to strategists watching the…
FG: AfCTA To Boost Africa’s Exports By $560bn
When fully operational, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will boost exports in the…
Year-End Euro To Dollar Target Maintained At 1.1500 On Dollar Rebound: Nordea
Nordea: Risk of Inflation Misread on US Jobs Data, Year-End Euro to Dollar Target Maintained at 1.1500 on Dollar…
CBN Increases Forex Allocations To Banks
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Sunday announced an increase in foreign exchange allocations to banks to meet the…
Sovereign Defaults Hit Record In 2020; More Are Possible
Fitch Ratings-London-08 June 2021: The sovereign issuer-based default rate rose to a record high in 2020…
CBN’s Pro-Growth Stance, Is The Right Decision
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee’s recent decision to keep all policy rates unchanged, and…
FMDQ Commends CBN For Restoring Transparency In FX Market
The Chief Executive Officer, FMDQ Group, Mr. Bola Onadele. Koko, has hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for…
Yuan Edges Higher In Thin Trade, Market Awaits U.S. Inflation Data
China's yuan firmed against the
dollar in thin trade on Wednesday, with the market's focus
locked on upcoming…
Bank Of England’s Haldane Says UK Housing Market Is On Fire
Britain's housing market is "on fire" thanks to government incentives for buyers, more demand from households with…
Nigeria Loses Billions Of Naira Over Deficient Dry Dock Facilities
Despite controlling about 70 per cent of shipping and international trade in West and Central Africa,…
FG Loses 50% Vehicle Import Duty, Levies To Smugglers – Report
The federal government is losing billions of naira in duties payable on imported vehicles as 50 per cent of such…
Bitcoin falls after U.S. seizes most of Colonial ransom
Bitcoin’s price slipped again Tuesday amid a brutal sell-off among digital currencies.
The reason for the…
The FBI likely exploited sloppy password storage to seize Colonial Pipeline…
The FBI’s breach of a bitcoin wallet held by the cyber criminals who attacked Colonial Pipeline is all about…
Sterling Eases Vs Dollar, UK Reopening Eyed
Sterling eased against a broadly stronger dollar on Tuesday, with no significant data releases on the economic…
Nigeria Immigration Reopens Passport Application Portal
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (CGI), Muhammad Babandede, has announced the reopening…
Counting The Gains Of CBN’s Funding Interventions For MSMEs
The gains of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) driven by the Central Bank of…
Nigeria’s Twitter Ban Stokes Defiance Despite Prosecution Threat
The Nigerian government’s ban on Twitter Inc. has triggered a wave of defiance among the country’s tech savvy,…
FG Pledges Support For Eko Refinery
The federal government has restated its commitment to assist the management of Eko Petrochemical and Refining…
Patronise CBN-Licensed BDCs, ABCON Charges Customers
The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has advised foreign exchange users and…