Category: Business
Minister directs telecom firms to slash data prices
The Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission to compel telecommunications service providers to [...]
$103.64m Abacha loot disbursed to the poor – Uwais
The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, Maryam Uwais, has said that the Federal Government has been channelling the recovered Abac [...]
Border closure: Ghana trade union calls for boycott of Nigerian goods
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has called for a boycott of goods imported from Nigeria. The union made the call following the closure o [...]
Entrepreneurship entails hard work, discipline and sacrifice – Elumelu tells Cape Verdean entrepreneurs
Speaking at the Youth Konnekt Forum in Cape Verde yesterday, African investor and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundat [...]
Border closure: Buhari approves drones for close monitoring
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of drones, aircraft and geospatial technology for the monitoring of borders. A source said the [...]
GTBank releases Q3 2019 unaudited results … reports profit before tax of ₦170.7bn
Guaranty Trust Bank plc has released its unaudited financial results for the period ended September 30, 2019 to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchange [...]
Inflation rises to 11.24% due to border closure – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics has released the Consumer Price Index which measures inflation with the index rising to 11.24 per cent in September. [...]
Nigeria budgets N450bn for fuel subsidy in 2020
The Minister for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says under-recovery of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly referred to as fuel subsi [...]
There is sufficient food, no hunger in the land – Agric minister
Sabo Nanono, minister of agriculture and rural development, says there is no hunger in the land. Many Nigerians have been complaining about economic h [...]
Do you know, that Nigeria sells more false eyelashes to US than cocoa?
Data made available by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that the value of false beard and eyelashes exported to the United States in the [...]