Banks and Telecommunications operators in the country, Tuesday, traded blames over the rising cases of financial frauds perpetrated in the country through telecommunications networks. The financial...
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has said that for the country to achieve economic and social inclusion, government must first tackle the current sluggish economic...
Banks and other financial institutions are to pay N2.5 million in fine for the use of unapproved e-payment solutions in the country. This is contained in...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has said that the Federal Government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has started...
The House of Representatives has approved a new national minimum wage of N30,000 for Nigerian workers. The president, Muhammadu Buhari has written to the lawmakers recommending...
The Federal Government has disclosed that it is collaborating with other oil and gas producer in Africa under the umbrella of African Petroleum Producers Organisation, APPO,...
The Federal Government has started paying part of the N1.3trillion accrued funds being owed the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This was disclosed by the Acting...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abubakar Yari, has warned the National Assembly not to pass a new National Minimum Wage that would be difficult for...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has argued that the N30,000 minimum wage labour unions are clamouring for is not enough for Nigerian workers....
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has disclosed that the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, recovered over N1 trillion from debtors whose loans were...
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has called on the Federal Government to reduce the tariff payable on imported vehicles in the country to...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has outlined the gains inherent in government’s new metering policy, the Meter Asset Provider policy, MAP,...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it genetated N2.911 billion revenue at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in the first 10 days of 2019. This...
The Department of Petroleum Resources and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources have denied allegations that there are irregularities in its renewal of oil and gas licenses....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected $289.76million into the retail secondary market intervention sales and CNY38.70million into the spot and short- tenored forwards segment...
Nigeria’s former two-time Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has declared that she is ready to take up the job of President of the World Bank,...
The revenue accruable to the federal, states and local governments in the country for December 2018 declined by N163.57 billion compared to that of November the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a new executive order that permits companies in the country to fund the construction of major roads in the country. The...
Following the observation of discrepancies by the National Assembly in the 2019 budget, the budget office on Thursday insisted there were none of such errors. A...
Members of the House of Representatives have faulted the Council of State for approving N27,000 as new minimum wage for workers in the country instead of...
The Federal Government is set to auction N150 billion worth of bonds on January 30, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said. The DMO, in a...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday highlighted miscalculations in the 2019 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. At its sitting, 42 lawmakers were observed while the...
A new report by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Institute of Management Accountants, on Global Economic Conditions, have said that Nigeria faces its lowest...
Each branch of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in the country that pays out counterfeit or mutilated banknotes will be fined N1 million, the Central Bank of...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has begun a search for new investors to take over Polaris Bank. The corporation, which is already taking stock...
Nigeria’s stock market recovered from Monday’s losses on Tuesday, with the market capitalisation appreciating by N1.6 billion to close at N11.462 trillion. This is as a...
The Federal Government on Tuesday, handed over the Terminal B of the Old Warri Port, as it finally signed the concession agreement with a core investor,...
The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has commended the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele for introducing a list of restricted...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the alarm that Nigeria may return to the pre-2005 Paris Club debt...
The House of Representatives has passed a bill criminalizing estimated billing by electricity distribution companies in the country. The bill, sponsored by the Majority Leader of...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has revealed that it generated the sum of N1.3 trillion as revenue UN 2018. The Director of DPR, Mr Mordecai...
The Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has left the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, at the same level it has been...
Spreading concerns over economic slowdown in China forced crude oil prices to take another dip on Tuesday after the gains recorded on Monday. The slowdown has...
The price of crude oil at the international market strengthened to $62.90 per barrel on Monday, a 20 cent increase from last weekend’s closing price. The...
The gaining streak the Nigerian capital market has enjoyed over some trading days was pushed back on Monday, with investors losing N102 billion. The push back...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, made a whooping N300.4 billion in three years, between 2016 and 2018 as the cost of collecting taxes. According to...
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, has said that Nigeria can explore $5 billion line of credit with low interest rate from India. Thakur,...
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has reduced the projection for Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, for 2019 to two per cent. The IMF had previously projected...
The Federal Government has approved a list of 108 companies for the provision of meters to electricity consumers in the country. The Minister of Power, Works...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has said it is planning to increase the number of items on its foreign exchange restricted items to 50 from 42....
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the low level metering in the power sector is responsible for low revenue collection by electricity distribution companies...
The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu has disclosed plans by the Federal government to acquire $100 million to develop rural broadband connectivity across the country....
The Nigerian government on Thursday disclosed that it would require a total sum of $1.1 billion loan to implement its Green imperative initiative. The Minister of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, said a staggering sum of $217.7 billion was illegally taken out of Nigeria between 1970 and 2008....
Nigeria has contributed 97 out of the 360 companies listed in the second edition of the London Stock Exchange Group’s Companies to Inspire Africa report. The...
Investors at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday gained N120.5 billion as the stick market continued its appreciation for the past five consecutive trading days....
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday, expressed the seriousness he attaches to the privatisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) vowing...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has released its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for December 2018, indicating that inflation rose from 11. 28 percent in...
The Federal Government has borrowed about N6.16 trillion out of the N8.49 trillion pension assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme. These figures were released by the...
The National Economic Council will on Thursday decide on the proposed N30,000 new minimum wage. This was part of the resolutions reached at the emergency meeting...