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Time is running out for Courteville’s business model
On Monday, April 16th, 2018, the share price of Courteville Business Solutions Plc reached its lowest level in five years, closing at ₦0.20 against outstanding shares of 3.55 billion. With this, the company’s market capitalisation stood…
Nigerian Stocks that could gain big if oil prices continue to rise
United States President Donald Trump sent the oil markets into turmoil following a confirmation that he was pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. As at Wednesday evening, Brent Crude prices were up 2.5% to $77 per share. As you may…
MTN to raise N400bn on NSE after listing
Ralph Mupita, chief financial officer at MTN Nigeria, says the company hopes to raise N400 billion from its debt issuance when it gets listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange later in the year. Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Mupita…
This is what you get if you buy FGN Savings Bonds selling this week
The Eleventh tranche of the FGN Savings Bond has begun. Kindly find the Summary of May 2018 Offer below: 2-Year FGN Savings Bond due May 16, 2020: 9.48% per annum 3-Year FGN Savings Bond due May 16, 2021: 10.48% per annum…
Trump’s Iran decision may affect business – MTN
MTN Group, South African telecommunications company, says US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear accord with Iran may make it difficult to repatriate funds from the country. In a statement released on…
Crude surges after Trump tears up Iran deal, equities mixed
Oil prices surged more than two percent in Asia on Wednesday after Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, fuelling fresh geopolitical uncertainty. Both main crude contracts have been rising in recent…
BoI to give corps members N2m start-up capital
The Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps in Osun State, Mr. Emmanuel Attah, has said the Federal Government has made plans for corps members with good business ideas to get loans of between N200,000 and N2m to start their…
Nigeria’s economy gets a boost as reserves hit $47.8bn
*Currency in circulation drops to N1.96trn The Nigerian economy has continued to improve, while further efforts to address remaining gaps by both the monetary and fiscal authorities have been encouraged by local and international…
Group commences legal move to revoke OPL 245 from Shell, Eni
The legal battle surrounding one of Nigeria’s most lucrative oil blocks, OPL 245, will shift to Nigeria on Tuesday when a federal high court is billed to hear a case filed by the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), a civil…
DMO opens May savings bonds offer
The Federal Government has opened its May savings bonds’ offer, the Debt Management Office (DMO) said on Monday. According to the offer circular obtained from DMO’s website, it offered the two-year bonds at 9.48 per cent and the…
Again, Financial Giant – UBA partners Facebook Introduces Electronic Payment Solution
Pan African Financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) has again disrupted the e-payment space with the introduction of Master Pass ‘Quick Response’ (QR) Bot. The revolutionary solution enables the micro, small and medium…
$2.5b currency swap deal to ease forex liquidity pressure
The $2.5 billion (Renminbi 16 billion) Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) swap is expected to reduce currency transaction cost for importers and ease foreign exchange (forex) liquidity pressure in Nigeria, …
The Biggest Africa focused IPO in a decade just launched in London; See details
Vivo Energy operators of Shell Gas Stations in Africa just floated what the Financial Times considers the biggest IPO in Africa at $2.7 billion. According to Reuters, the company launched with a valuation of nearly 2 billion pounds…
Kellogg injects additional $420 million in Nigeria’s packaged food business
Kellogg has released its Q1 2018 financial statements results. Highlights of the result show an improvement in net sales performance, driven by key business brands across the portfolio. The net sales grew by 4.7% in the quarter…
DSTV says it may consider pay-as-you-consume option
Multichoice Nigeria, parent company of DStv, says it may consider the pay-as-you-consume (PAYC) payment option in the future. The proposed pay-as-you-consume pricing scheme allows users pay according to their effective resource…
Inside Nigeria’s Currency Swap with China
What took so long and what next? Nigeria first announced that it had signed a bilateral currency swap agreement with China in early April 2016. More than two years later, the deal was finally made official in Beijing on Friday 27th…
Why Nigerian Internet fraudsters target Chinese, HK bank accounts — Report
West Africa’s infamous Internet scammers have evolved, dropping their impersonations of online love interests, princes and United States soldiers in favour of hijacking corporate emails, costing businesses hundreds of millions of dollars…
Pension Assets Hit N7.8tn, FG to Clear Outstanding Obligations
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has put the net asset value of the contributory pension scheme (CPS) at N7.779 trillion as of February 28, just as it said that N54 billion released by the federal government last year would boost…
FBN, Stanbic, StanChart, Zenith Appointed Settlement Banks for Naira/RMB Currency Swap
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Stanbic IBTC, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Zenith Bank Plc have been appointed the settlement banks for the $2.5 billion bilateral currency swap agreed between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the…
Indomie manufacturer acquires Mimee — months after buying Dangote noodles plant
De-United Foods Industries Limited (DUFIL), makers of Indomie noodles, have acquired the food unit of May & Baker Plc, makers of Mimee noodles. In November 2017, Dangote Food, makers of Dangote noodles, sold two of its…
MTN Nigeria adds 2.3m customers in three months
MTN Nigeria says it added 2.3 million subscribers between January and March 2018 to report a total customer base of 54.5 million. In a statement released on Thursday by Funso Aina, the company’s PR and protocol manager, it said its…
Kachikwu asks NNPC, DPR, PPPRA bosses to reply Falana
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has ordered the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru; the Director, Department of Petroleum Resources, Modecai Ladan; and Executive…
Good news for Nigerian businesses as CBN signs $2.5bn swap deal with China
Nigerians doing business with China will no longer have to worry too much about sourcing for dollars. This is a highlight of the execution of a bilateral currency swap agreement between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the…
CBN boosts foreign exchange market with $210m
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Wednesday, injected 210 million dollars into the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market in continuation of its efforts to sustain liquidity in the market. The acting Director, Corporate…