Inflation may worsen as Federal Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances rose from N17.46tn as of December 2021 to N19.01tn as of …
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The Nigerian insurance sector grew by 15.68 per cent in the first quarter of the 2022 financial period, according to figures obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on …
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has revealed that the citizens consumed 966.58 million litres of petrol in two weeks. In the latest Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) distribution data …
First Bank Holdings Plc, Unity Bank Plc and Union Bank Plc have been fined N13.5 million by the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) for failing to file their financial statements before …
Nigeria is West Africa’s largest recipient of Foreign direct investment (FDI) as its flow doubled to $4.8 billion in 2021, due to resurgence in investments in the oil and gas …
The World Bank has predicted that more people in Nigeria and its Sub-Saharan neighbours are expected to fall into extreme poverty. According to a report obtained via a World Bank newsletter …
Latest updates on Nigeria’s cash call arrears repayment showed that the country had so far repaid a total of $3.72bn to five international oil firms, leaving an outstanding balance of …
Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited (MESL), operator of the 760 megawatts (MW) Kainji hydropower plant and the 578MW Jebba hydro, has begun an $89 million (about N37.2 billion) project to add …
To drive non-oil exports, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has launched a Trade House in Cairo, Egypt while targeting to launch such in seven other countries. The Trade House …
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to introduce the Unstructured Supplementary (USSD) code as part of steps to improve the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Kingsley Obiora, the …