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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…
Nigerians enjoy subsidised fuel as NNPC, Dangote engage in price war
• Stakeholders seek regulatory intervention, fear anti-competition strategies
In what appears as retaliation against initial price reduction by Dangote Refinery, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited…
FG dumps REMITA, unveils new revenue collection platform today
The Federal Government will today, March 4, 2025, unveil a new payment platform to replace REMITA, which has been used for revenue collection.
This was revealed in a memo from the Office of the Accountant…
In Bid for Full Capacity, Dangote Refinery Buys 1m Barrels of Oil from Algeria
Nigeria’s 650,000 barrels per day Dangote refinery has bought its first cargo of Algeria’s light sweet Saharan Blend…
Dangote refinery to absorb N16bn loss by refunding N65 per litre to oil marketers
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced plans to refund oil marketers who purchased premium motor spirit (PMS) at rates higher than the…
PoS revolution: How traders, shop owners are sidestepping banks
…Add PoS to their business
…No longer deposit money with banks
…As many more Nigerians shun banking halls, ATMs
…PoS business deepening financial…
Dangote Cement grows revenue to N3.58tn
Dangote Cement Plc has reported a revenue of N3.58tn for the financial year ended December 31, 2024, representing a 62 per cent increase from N2.21tn recorded in 2023.
The company’s financial statement,…
‘How my late dad founded Wema Bank 80 years ago’
Alaba Adegboyega Okupe is the son of Chief Matthew Adekoya Okupe, the founder of Wema Bank plc, formerly Agbonmagbe Bank Limited. In this interview with Ibrahim Apekhade Yusuf, Alaba, the eldest surviving…
Fraudsters exploit BVN loopholes to steal over N1b – NIBSS report
A new report by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has revealed that fraudsters exploited weaknesses in the banking system to steal over N1 billion using Bank Verification Numbers (BVNs) illegally…
Wema at 80: 80 customers emerge winners in 80th daily draw
In anticipation of the grand celebration of its 80th anniversary, Wema Bank, Nigeria's most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa's…
Adesanya Writes Tinubu for Amicable Settlement of $2.3bn Mambila Hydro Project Dispute
*Seeks negotiated exit of Sunrise from 3,050MW power project
*Says ICC president supports amicable settlement by both parties
Following the intervention of some elder statesmen and influential…
Will CBN Embark on Monetary Easing Amid Inflation Moderation?
With a relative decline in headline inflation, the Central Bank of Nigeria is under pressure to cut interest rates, James Emejo writes
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently rebased the Consumer…
After $5bn Bonga North FID, FG Eyes $2bn New Investments in Oil Sector by End of Q1, 2025
*Set to rework electricity subsidy structure to benefit the poor
*Says Nigeria’s wealthiest among 25% enjoying huge tariff underpayments
The federal government at the weekend remained upbeat about the…