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Central banks look to China’s renminbi to diversify foreign currency reserves
Central banks are looking towards the renminbi to diversify their foreign currency holdings in a…
Oil theft: Nigeria lost $1bn in Q1 2022, says NUPRC
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says it has developed key initiatives aimed at reducing crude…
FG to tax Shisha N3,000 per litre
The Federal Government has announced a new Cigarette Tax regime that will see the price for a pack of 20 cigarettes increase…
Nigeria displays commitment to honour debt obligations, redeems $300m diaspora bond
As a sign of commitment to promptly honour its debts obligations always, Nigeria has redeemed its 300 million dollars diaspora bond which matured on June 27. This is according to a statement by the Debt…
Reps approve special bank for entrepreneurs
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to establish an Entrepreneurship Development Bank of Nigeria, with the aim of providing soft loans for small and medium scale enterprises…
Investors in MTN Public Offer gain N35 billion in 6 months
Investors in MTN’s Public Offer for Sale conducted in December 2021 have gained an estimated N35 billion since the…
TUC Floors Union Bank In Court … May Picket Bank Over Terminal Benefits Of Ex-Union Homes Workers
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has defeated Union Bank, the parent body of…
CBN: UK Varsity Demands Prompt Payment Of Nigerian Students’ Tuition
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has been urged by the Manchester Metropolitan…
Fidelity Partners ImpactHER to Empower 1,052 Female Entrepreneurs with Sales Skills
Fidelity Bank, a leading financial institution in Nigeria has collaborated…
CBN Injects $840m Into Forex Market In One Month
With its weekly intervention of $210 million, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has, as at the weekend, injected a total of $840 million into the foreign exchange market this month, as part of efforts to…
Josepdam Not Indebted To Us, Says AMCON
Following the successful liquidation of its indebtedness, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has declared Josepdam & Sons Limited and Josepdam Sugar Company Limited free of any debt obligation…
Why Are Central Banks Raising Interest Rates?
As a businessman in Nigeria, you are most likely not pleased with the interest rate hike. Despite the dwindling economy, the interest rates keep growing, making it more difficult to access and repay loans.…
APPLY: Amazon seeks ‘qualified’ candidates for positions based in Nigeria
Amazon, an American e-commerce company, says it is looking to recruit qualified persons for seven positions based in Lagos, Nigeria. The e-commerce platform is set to launch operations in Nigeria by…
NAICOM Revokes Niger Insurance, Standard Alliance Licences, Appoints Liquidators
Following the failure of several palliatives to strengthen both Niger Insurance Plc and the Standard Alliance…
Unclaimed dividends hit whopping N180 billion
Unclaimed dividends by Nigerian stockholders reached N180 billion last December, according to Alhaji Lamido Yuguda, the Director-General, Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). He told newsmen the commission is…
Marginal fields: NUPRC awards licences to 161 companies, rakes N200bn, $7m
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory (NUPRC) says the 2020 marginal field bid round exercise generated about N200 billion as well as $7 million in revenue for the federal government (FG). Gbenga…
Sterling Bank staff disappears with customers’ N300 million, police wade in
Favour Fame-Eruagbere, a staff of Sterling Bank Plc, Effurun, Delta State Branch, is currently on the…
BDCs eye $20b Diaspora market for forex inflows
Bureaux de Change (BDC) operators are seeking stake in the $20 billion yearly diaspora remittances that constitute a large part of dollar inflows to the economy, President, Association of Bureaux De Change…
MultiChoice reports N196.3 billion in subscription revenue from Nigeria
Despite high inflation, fuel shortages and frequent electricity blackouts in Nigeria, South African-based pay-TV operator…
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian billionaire founder of Ray ban dies at age 87
The Billionaire founder of Luxottica an eyewear giant company which owns billion-dollar…
Russia set to default on bond payments
Russia looks set for its first sovereign default in decades as some bondholders said they had not received overdue interest on Monday following the expiry of a key payment deadline a day earlier. Russia has…
Alleged N23bn fraud rocks MTN’s MoMo PSB, one month after launch
Momo Payment Service Bank Limited (MPSBL), the banking subsidiary of MTN…
42 per cent of billionaires under 30 are in U.S – Report
A new report has revealed that 42 per cent of billionaires under the age of 30 are domiciled in the United States. Released by MoneyTransfer on Friday, the report said that the U.S. accounts for five of the 12…
Petrol subsidy payments climbed to N1.27trn in five months
For the fifth time in 2022, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited…