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LPG dealers tap R&A for N100bn capital raise
Reap & Arcenciel Limited (R & A), a Lagos-based management consulting and financial advisory firm, will support members of the Nigerian Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (NLPGA) in their efforts to raise…
Tinubu ends Seplat-ExxonMobil impasse after high level visits
Pressure from President Bola Tinubu, following two high-level visits from ExxonMobil’s top shots, has cleared the hurdle in the path of the international oil company’s asset sale to indigenous heavyweight, Seplat…
ExxonMobil scales back operations in Nigeria, reduces office space and workforce
ExxonMobil is reducing its presence in Nigeria, according to findings by BusinessDay. The oil giant is downsizing its office space and scaling back operations across the country. According to the report, ExxonMobil has…
DISCOs generate ₦100 billion revenue in one month amid tariff hike
Power distribution companies in Nigeria have banked on the recent tariff hike to increase their earnings in March 2024. The increased…
BREAKING: Tax reform committee proposes N800/$ as customs import duty rate
The presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms says it has asked the federal government to adopt an exchange rate of N800 per dollar for customs import duty. Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the…
FX market turnover drops 27.68% to $9.12 billion in April – FMDQ reports
Spot FX market turnover in April 2024 was $9.12 billion (N11.14 trillion), representing a Month-on-month (MoM) decrease of 27.68% ($3.49 billion) from the turnover recorded in March 2024 ($12,61 billion). This was…
BREAKING: Huggies maker, Kimberly-Clark to stop production three years after investing $100m in…
Diaper and sanitary pad manufacturer, Kimberley Clark will soon announce an imminent shutdown of its Ikorodu production facility two years after investing $100 million in Nigeria. Sources within the company informed…
Reps probe sack of 600 CBN staff
The House of Representatives on Wednesday mandated its committees on Banking Institutions and Federal Character to probe the arbitrary retrenchment of about 600 staff by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The resolution…
Paystack-led consortium acquires Brass, replaces CEO
Two months after it raised bridge financing to solve challenges with working capital, the Nigerian business banking startup Brass has been acquired by a consortium of…
Stealing From the Dead: Hurdles People Face Trying to Claim Deceased Relatives’ Money in Banks
‘My effort to get my sister’s money failed, had to forget it’ We need law mandating banks to provide account holders with POD forms -Lawyer…
Forex crisis overshadows Tinubu’s policies in Nigerian tech industry – Stakeholders
Stakeholders in the Nigerian tech space have said that the issue of forex overshadowed the various tech policies introduced by Bola Tinubu’s administration in the last one year as they struggled to meet forex obligations.…
Emefiele didn’t get approval to redesign naira – Ex-CBN director
The trial of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Tuesday with a former Director of Operations at the apex bank, Ahmed Umar, telling the court that the naira redesign…
UTM Offshore expands Floating LPG project, eyes fresh investors
UTM Offshore has selected the shipyard to construct the hull for Nigeria’s pioneering floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel. This project’s capacity is anticipated to be significantly larger than initially…
Locally-used cars boom as volatile naira curbs imports
Nigerians are turning to locally used vehicles as soaring prices make imported cars unaffordable in a country grappling with the worst…
Naira falls, external reserves dip despite FX reforms
Nigeria’s bold foreign exchange reforms under President Bola Tinubu have not yielded the results many expected, with critics faulting implementation. The naira has weakened 65 per cent against theUS dollar at the…
Dangote Refinery set for June diesel exports, eyes NGX listing by December 2024
…targets 500,000-barrel production capacity July Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery, the largest in Africa, is set to begin exporting diesel fuel meeting…
Naira down to N1,525/$ in parallel market
The Naira yesterday depreciated in the parallel market to N1,525 per dollar from N1,520 per dollar last weekend. However, the Naira appreciated to N1,339.33 per dollar in the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange…
Banks generated N438bn from digital transactions in 2023
In 2023, digital banking channels brought in roughly N438bn for 10 financial institutions, an analysis of their annual reports has shown. Compared to the previous year, the banking groups’ earnings from electronic…
Shareholders back Fidelity Bank’s recapitalisation plan
Shareholders have thrown their weight behind the ongoing recapitalisation plan of Fidelity Bank Plc. The shareholders gave their support at the recently held annual general meeting of the bank, where they said that…
FCMB Group: Shareholders Approve Issued Capital Increase and ₦150 Billion Capital Raise
…100% dividend increase from 2022 FCMB Group Plc's shareholders, at the company's 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM), approved an increase in issued share capital…
How Personal Assistant Beheaded Founder Of Nigerian Motorbike Company, Gokada To Conceal $400,000…
More information on how Tyrese Haspil, the personal assistant of Fahim Saleh killed his boss to conceal a theft of $400,000 from his girlfriend has surfaced. Saleh…
TAJBank reports N11.3bn profit, highest of non-interest banking
…Gross earnings surge 149% TAJBank Limited, Nigeria’s fastest growing non-interest bank, has reported a profit before tax (PBT) of N11.3 billion in its 4th year of operations for the 2023 Financial Year. This is…
Naira rallies on back of rising foreign reserves
The naira rallied to a recovery at the weekend on the back of sustained increase in the country’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves. The naira appreciated by 1.0 per cent to N1, 482.81 per dollar at the Nigerian…
CBN Mop-Ups N1.8trn Liquidity Amid Rising Inflation
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the just concluded liquidity mop-up has raised an estimated N1.8 trillion from Open Market Operation (OMO) and Nigerian Treasury Bills (NTBs) amid its efforts to tackle the…