Rewane Foresees Bright Economic Outlook For Nigeria In 2021
The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Mr. Bismarck Rewane has predicted…
Dollar Shortage Further Cracks Naira To N470
The Naira showed no sign of improvement on Wednesday as the incessant shortage of the United States Dollar at 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 Global Fleet Group,…
Nigeria: Manufacturing PMI Records Expansion After Six Months Contraction
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The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for November 2020 recorded expansion after six…
New York City To Close Public Schools Again As Virus Cases Rise
New York City’s entire public school system will shutter on Thursday, the schools chancellor Richard A. Carranza…
Nigerian Stock Exchange Members Back Flotation Plan
The Nigerian bourse won approval from its members on Wednesday for a stock market flotation that will turn the…
KLM Announces Return To Nigeria In December
Stories by David Agba with agency report KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Wednesday announced it would be resuming flights…
Nigeria: FEC Approves Finance Bill 2020
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the Finance…
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 one-week low, as positive…
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 commodity currencies in check on…
Nigeria’s Christians Become Target Of Genocide As International Community Remains…
The religious persecution of Christians in Nigeria is teetering on genocide, religious leaders and foreign policy…
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 one. A lot of…
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 one of a huge…
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 it is now dealing with a…
Just In: Pfizer Revises COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Score To 95%
Pfizer, along with its German partner BioNTech on Wednesday jacked up the efficacy score of its COVID-19 vaccine…
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 737 MAX jet again…
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 at N384.80/$1 in contrast to…
Europe Is Planning Its Very Own E-Currency
The European Central Bank appears serious about a digital euro.
Barely a month after the central bank issued a…
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 represents a…
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…
Nigeria: ‘FCT Will Demolish More Buildings’
THE Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Department of Development Control (DDC) said Abuja residents should be ready…
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 increasingly being viewed as an…
Profit Taking Shrinks Nigeria Bourse Into Red Zone As Investors Take Bearish…
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 could have more and more…
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 bullish…
Four Key Risks Could Make 2021 The Toughest Year For Banks Since 2009, Says…
S&P Global Ratings warned that banks could face their toughest year since the aftermath of the global financial…
Opec+ Turns Down Nigeria’s Request To Review Quota
The Opec+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) has declined an informal request from Nigeria to…
Nigerians Are Leading Global Asylum Claims To Canada Despite Covid-19’S Travel…
In February, data showed that, for the fifth year in a row, more Nigerians emigrated to Canada in 2019 than the…