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Ronchess Global Resources Plc. restructures company board
Following a successful listing on the Nigerian Exchange ( NGX – formerly the Nigerian Stock Exchange), Ronchess Global Resources Plc (RONCHESS) notified the Nigerian Exchange on January…
Nigeria to Pay More for Petrol Subsidy as Oil Price Hits $85
Oil prices continued their surge yesterday, hitting a two-month high amid projections that lack of production capacity and limited investment in the sector could lift crude between $90 and $100 a barrel this year.…
‘No staff will be affected in 2022’ — Standard Chartered confirms closure of Nigerian branches
Standard Chartered Bank has confirmed the closure of 50 percent of its Nigerian branches. On Tuesday, TheCable reported that the United Kingdom-based banking group would cut branches in Nigeria…
Pakistan’s central bank ‘wants to ban’ crypto
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is reportedly seeking to ban all cryptocurrency transactions in Pakistan. Pakistan’s Sindh High Court reportedly held a hearing related to the legal status of cryptocurrencies in the country,…
Stanbic, Standard Chartered, Citi lead as banks record $38.2bn foreign inflows
Stanbic IBTC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria, and Citibank Nigeria Limited lead as capital importation from banks hit $38.18bn in almost three years. Between January 2019 and September 2021 (33 months), the total…
We are not affiliated with Access Capital Investment Platform – Access Bank
Access Bank Plc says it has no business engagement or affiliation with Access Capital Investment Platform, an online investment entity. Sunday Ekwochi, company secretary at Access Bank, disclosed this Wednesday in a corporate…
Dangote Cement Begins Second Tranche Of Shares Buyback Programme
Dangote Cement Plc has commenced the second tranche of its shares buyback programme. Share buyback also known as share repurchase is the re-acquisition by a company of its own…
8 elite companies control nearly half of stock market with N11trn
Eight companies listed on the Premium Board of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), otherwise known as elite issuers, account for 49.2 percent of the total equities market capitalization at the end of 2021. The companies,…
Banks’ Credit To Private Sector Hit N5.16trn
The private sector has borrowed N5.16 trillion from banks between January and November 2021. Also, credit to the government increased by 5 per cent to N13.03 trillion as…
Days After Listing, BUA Foods’ Shares Jump 46.25%, Market Cap Hits N1.053trn
The shares of BUA Foods Plc have appreciated by 46.25 percent on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) after its formal launch last week. During a four -day trading session on the NGX…
Finance Act: LCCI opposes additional cost burden on investors
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI ) has kicked against a provision in the Finance Act 2022, which involves capital gains tax at the rate of 5 percent, saying it is an…
NBET pays GENCOs 50% of invoice on power supply
POWER generation companies (GenCos) were paid just half of their total invoice to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) for power supplied to the National Grid in the first…
Oil Market: Bonny Light price hits $81.81 per barrel
THE price of Bonny Light, Nigeria’s premium oil grade, has risen to $81.81 per barrel in the global market, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, moves to achieve…
Bolt now valued above $8bn after raising $712m to expand product lines
Bolt, a ride-hailing company, says it has raised $712 million (€628 million) to expand its transportation and food delivery super app. Sequoia Capital and Fidelity Management and…
Buhari Cancels Restoration of INTELS’ Pilotage Contract
The battle by INTELS Nigeria Limited to retain its service boat contract in the pilotage district of Lagos, Warri, Bonny, Port-Harcourt and Calabar, which expired on August 8, 2020, has…
Standard Chartered To Shut Half Of Nigeria Branches
Standard Chartered Plc is closing about half its Nigerian branches in a pivot to digital banking, according to people familiar with the matter, as the finance industry comes…
Nigeria’s diaspora remittances may beat World Bank’s projection, rise 10% to $14.2bn
Nigeria’s diaspora remittances inflow is set to beat the World Bank’s projection for 2021, as it rose to $14.2 billion in the nine months ending September 2021, up 10 per cent…
Take-Two to buy Farmville creator Zynga for $12.7 bn
Video game publisher Take-Two announced Monday it reached a deal to acquire “Farmville” creator Zynga for $12.7 billion, in a major mobile gaming push by the maker of “Grand Theft Auto.”…
Dangote Refinery Will Boost Growth of Downstream Sector in 2022, CPPE, Others Affirm
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE), an economic advocacy group, has identified Dangote Petroleum Refinery as one of the key expected drivers of growth that would…
Introduction of Sin Tax will reduce burden of diseases, increase government revenue – ACUF
The Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari on the introduction of a N10 per liter excise duty on soft drinks, describing it as a welcome…
Heirs Holdings Launches Tender On OML 17
Heirs Holdings has launched a tender for work on the Elelenwa multi-phase pump gathering station, on OML 17 in Nigeria. The tender is coming close to a year after the firm bought 45 per cent…
Capital importation rises 97% to $1.73bn in Q3’21
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that capital importation rose sharply, quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) by 97 percent to $1.73 billion in the third quarter of last year (Q3’21)…
No Issues With Pastor Bakare’s Loan – Wema Bank
Wema Bank Plc has assured that there are no issues or illegalities in respect of the facility it granted Citadel Global Community Church (formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly). The bank made…
Dangote, Adenuga, Rabiu pocket N2.35tn in 2021
Nigeria’s three richest men, Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, and Abdulsamad Rabiu saw their combined wealth jump by 33.9 percent to $22.5 billion (N9.3 trillion) in 2021. According to…