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You will pay 15% VAT: 20 key provisions of the Nigeria Tax Bill, 2024
The Nigeria Tax Bill entitled, ‘An Act to Repeal Certain Acts on Taxation and Consolidate the Legal Frameworks Relating to Taxation and Enact the Nigeria Tax Act to Provide for Taxation of Income, Transactions…
Wema Bank Announces The 6th Edition of Hackaholics, Theme “Beyond Algorithms: Engineering Disruptive…
…Introduces Accelerator Program for Startups. Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT,…
FG forgoes $577.6m as road tax credit to NNPCL
The Federal Government has forgone $577.6m in tax revenue under the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited from February to December 2024. The FAAC…
Petrol imports gulp N3.3trn in three months despite rising local refining
Nigeria’s petrol imports have persisted with no significant decline despite reported rising domestic refining…
Nigeria raises ₦2.51tr via T-bills as investors seek lower rates
The Nigerian government has raised a total of ₦2.51 trillion through Treasury Bills (T-Bills) and Open…
Stay Off Ascon Oil Company’s Assets, George Enenmoh’s immediate Family Warns Public
The Family of the late Founder/Owner of Ascon Oil Company Limited, Engineer George Ikemefuna Enenmoh, has alerted Nigerians and the business community,…
Nigeria’s Crude Oil Production Hits 1.7Million Barrels Daily
A SaharaReporters review of data from the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has shown that Nigeria recorded an increase in crude oil production per day as of January 2025, marking a positive…
DANGOTE GROUP PAYS N402.3B TAX TO GOVT IN 2024
The Pan African Conglomerate Dangote Industries Limited, (Dangote Group), and its subsidiaries has disclosed that it…
FNSB Praises FCMB’s Continued Support for the Blind
The Federal Nigeria Society for the Blind (FNSB) has commended First City Monument Bank (FCMB) for supporting the visually impaired community in…
GICN Group Retracts Corruption Allegation Against GTB, Tenders Apology (Video)
A civil society organisation, Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN), has retracted allegations of corruption and unwholesome…
Inside Nigeria’s little known dollar-making cash crop
The National Ginger Association of Nigeria has said that Nigeria's ginger industry offers great investment potential, driven…
Naira appreciates to N1,512/$ in parallel market
The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,512 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,515 per dollar on Tuesday. However, the Naira depreciated to N1,505 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market…
Oil price drops 20% to $67 per barrel
•As U.S. inventories hit 3.6m barrels THE price of Bonny Light, Nigeria’s premium crude dropped further by 20 per cent to $67 per barrel from $84.02 per barrel on January 2025, fuelling fears over achievement of…
Funtua At Loggerheads With Danjuma Over 9Mobile Ownership …Court Fixes March 19 For Hearing
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, will on March 19, 2025, hear an ongoing dispute over the ownership and control of Emerging Markets…
CBN appoints 16 directors to improve operations
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appointed 16 new directors to head key departments. The directors’ appointments took effect on March 3. The appointments were said to have been made to bolster the apex bank’s…
First Bank holds groundbreaking ceremony for new state-of-the-art eco-friendly headquarters
First Bank, the premier bank in West Africa and a leading financial inclusion service provider, today marks a significant milestone with the groundbreaking ceremony for its new green-certified Iconic Head Office…
Tinubu’s foreign trips attracted $50.8bn investments – Minister
The Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole, has disclosed that the 30 foreign trips undertaken by President Bola Tinubu have attracted proposed investments worth $50.8bn into the country.…
Multinational shareholders brace for year of zero dividends
Shareholders of some multinational companies in Nigeria are bracing for another year of zero dividends following…
MTN eyes N1.34trn from tariff hike
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has projected an extra revenue of N1.34 trillion from its recently implemented 50 percent tariff increase on calls, data,…
US Stocks’ Post-Election gains wiped out after Trump tariffs take effect
US stocks has wiped out nearly all post-election rally as Donald Trumps’s misguided tariffs begin to bite Canada,…
Price increase hauls cement makers N677.4bn profit in 2024
Nigerian cement manufacturers defied economic challenges in 2024, posting profit growth through price hikes with analysts seeing investors’ interest in…
NLNG gas supply plunges 80% on leaky pipelines
…Exports decline by 40 percent The operational crisis at NLNG Limited continues to deepen as the outage at its Bonny Island facility drags on, with gas supplies plummeting by a staggering 80 percent,…
LIRS urges taxpayers to meet March 31 deadline for annual tax return submission
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service has reminded all individual taxpayers,…
Naira down to N1,510/$ in parallel market
The Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,510 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,505 per dollar last weekend. But the Naira appreciated to N1,499 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM)Data…