The Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA), and Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony Elumelu has advocated massive private capital investment as well as increased support to youth development as catalysts for driving the much needed […]
The permanent secretary, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Adesola Olusade has indicated the willingness of the ministry to partner with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the area of Road Safety Education for […]
Experts have listed access to funding, lack of trust and focus as among the reasons discouraging investors from investing in Nigeria’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). These and many more dominated discussions at the just […]
Flutterwave, a Nigerian-based payments technology company with operations in Africa, today announced that it has closed a $35 million Series B from a consortium of strategic investors. The round was co-led by Greycroft & eVentures […]
Desire of the management of Dangote Cement to ‘buy back’ 10 per cent of its entire issued shares from shareholders was unanimously granted on Wednesday as the company’s shareholders’ voted in support of the ‘share […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC has said that it has increased efforts to encourage retail investors to invest in the capital market in a bid to Create wealth, deepen the market and grow the […]
The January 2020 FGN Bond Auction by Debt Management Office (DMO) which took place on Wednesday was oversubscribed by more than 300%. The DMO offered N155.00 billion of three (3) Instruments (5-Year, 10-Year and 30-Year […]
Access Bank and its Group Managing Director, Herbert Wigwe, were honoured as the ‘Bank of the Decade’ and ‘Banker of the Decade’ respectively at the 25th anniversary celebration of ThisDay Newspaper. The silver jubilee celebration […]
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has directed Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to implement the second edition of the pension enhancement exercise for retirees on Programmed Withdrawal mode of retirement. In a statement made available to […]
In what has become a ‘just do’ […]
The day long UK-Africa Investment Summit held on in London, United Kingdom (UK) has set the pace to using UK’s expertise and innovation in technology, clean energy, infrastructure and finance which can feed the continent’s […]
Malawi this month opened the first African Drone and Data Academy, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The academy aims to improve drone technology skills across Africa, beginning with Malawi and neighboring […]
Bauchi State Ministry of Education and Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) have trained education administrators to be ICT compliant. The Commissioner for Education, Dr Aliyu Tilde, at the weekend said the partnership was […]
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has commenced training of 100 women in the North central zone through it’s the fourth consecutive zonal capacity building programme and training for women. The programme was geared towards […]
The Nigeria capital market is one of the sectors expected to thrive in the year 2020 and provide a more attractive platform for investors. In this report AMAKA IFEAKANDU writes on the factors that would […]
With the rise the digital economy and its peculiar tax challenges, Nigeria, with the articulated new Finance Bill may still lose a fortune to nonresident companies, analysts at KPMG has said. “International tax has […]
The National Initiatives for Sustainable and Climate-smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NISCOPS) has been launched by Solidaridad in Accra, Ghana. NISCOPS is a five-year strategic programme aimed at enabling government in key oil palm producing countries […]
The Nigerian National Lottery Regulatory Commission has prohibited the operation, promotion and sale of tickets of all unapproved foreign lottery games after multiple instances of operators failing to pay players’ winnings. The Commission said that […]
Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) and the Institute of Loss Adjusters of Nigeria (ILAN) have commended the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) for granting approval for extension of their license renewal period from one […]
The federal government has warned that the near normal rainfall pattern in the country does not rule out the possibility of isolated flash floods. The Minister of Aviation said this at the public presentation […]
The federal government has explained why it decided to exempt tuition fees, basic food items and 18 other items from the 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) implementation scheduled to commence by February 1,st 2020. […]
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has ordered all parties in the committal proceeding instituted against BPE and Mr. Alex A. Okoh, DG, BPE in the matter between BFIG v. BPE to file their brief […]
The new Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami has been advised to conduct an appraisal of its status quo before making unrealistic promises that might as well never be actualized. […]
Trading activities at the Nigerian Stock Exchange yesterday returned to bearish trend, following the profit takng embarked by investors as equity market declined by N127 billion. Specifically, market capitalisation of listed equities depreciated by 0.83 […]
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Professor James Momoh, said he has a dream that Nigerians will enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply one day. This is coming less than five days after the national […]
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