• CNC: semestre fecha com maior percentual de endividados desde 2010

    O primeiro semestre deste ano encerrou com um percentual de 69,7% das famílias brasileiras com alguma dívida, em atraso ou não. Segundo a Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC), esse é o maior patamar de endividamento familiar da série histórica de sua pesquisa, iniciada em 2010. De ...

  • NWPL Promotion: SWAN, Falode Congratulate Naija Ratels FC

    Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), FCT chapter, and the chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWPL), Aisha Falode, have congratulated Naija Ratels after gaining promotion to top flight women football and ultimately winning the just concluded championship. SWAN FCT chairman, Comrade Ndubueze Chidoka in a congratulatory message to ...

  • Transcorp Energy Presents Alternative Energy Solution To Nigeria

    Transcorp Energy Limited, a subsidiary of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, has presented an alternative energy solution to Nigeria as part of its integrated energy strategy. Unveiling the company’s alternative energy plan at a meeting with the Minister of Science & Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Mr. Peter Ikenga, head of ...

  • Buhari Greets Rabiu On Appointment As Nigeria-France Business Council President

    President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated founder and chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, on his appointment by French President, Emmanuel Macron, as President of the France-Nigeria Business Council. Buhari in a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, believes the appointment of the BUA chairman, after inauguration of the ...

  • $151m Paris Club Refund: Why I Petitioned EFCC Against Abia Govt – Witness

    Group executive director and chief executive officer of Mauritz Walton Nigeria Limited, Dr. Maurice Ibe, has told a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Kubwa, why he wrote a petition to the Economic and Finance Crimes Commission EFCC, against the Abia State government and some of its officials. Ibe, while ...

  • Electricity: MAN Kicks Against Planned Removal Of Eligible Customer Status

    The plan to discard the eligible consumer regulation by the Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria has been described as scandalous, counterproductive and an action that portays the government as insincere in its ease of doing business. The director-general of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Mr. Segun Ajayi Kadiri, ...

  • Nnamdi Kanu: Abaribe Urges Respect For Human Rights, Rule Of Law

    Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has called for caution and strict adherence to the rule of law in the handling of the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by the federal government. The Senator in a statement released by his media ...

  • Ipea revisa PIB deste ano de 3% para 4,8%

    O Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) elevou de 3% para 4,8% a previsão de crescimento do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB, a soma de todos os bens e serviços produzidos no país), para 2021. A revisão foi baseada na expectativa de crescimento mais sustentado da atividade econômica no segundo semestre, ...

  • Aneel leiloa 515 km de linhas de transmissão de energia

    A Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (Aneel) leiloou hoje (30) 515 km de linhas de transmissão de energia em um pregão composto por cinco lotes, em seis estados, totalizando 2.600 megavolt-amperes (MVA) em subestações. Venciam as empresas que apresentavam a menor Receita Anual Permitida (RAP) em relação ao teto estabelecido ...

  • CBN Advises Customers To Protect Their Transaction Rights

    Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has advised customers on steps to take while transacting business. The bank gave the advice during its fair held yesterday at Custodian Hotel, Gombe metropolis in Gombe State. CBN said customers have the right to disclosure of information from their banks on products and services ...

  • PIB: Reps Pledge Fair Deal For Host Communities, Advise Avengers Against Militancy

    By ADEBIYI ADEDAPO, Abuja The House of Representatives has promised to ensure that the plights of host communities are adequately addressed in the Petroleum Industry Bill being considered by the National Assembly. Specifically, the House pledged to address all the petitions sent by the various oil communities in the Niger ...

  • Sterling Bank Partners StearsData On Agric Industry Report

    Sterling Bank Plc, in partnership with StearsData, has released an in-depth report for the agriculture sector in Nigeria. The report titled ‘Agriculture Industry Report 2021’ provides the most up-to-date view of the challenges and opportunities in Nigeria’s agriculture sector in a COVID-19 era. The four-part report critically examines the country’s ...

  • Macron Inaugurates France-Nigeria Business Council

    French president Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated the France-Nigeria Business Council – a private sector initiative to enhance business relations between the two countries with Abdul Samad Rabiu, Founder/ Chairman of Nigeria’s BUA Group as its inaugural President. The newly inaugurated council also has Gilbert Chagoury of Chagoury Group, Mike Adenuga ...

  • Is Bitcoin Mining A Viable Business In Nigeria?

    Bitcoin can be mined, just like we do with natural resources. Mining has a magnetic appeal for many investors interested in cryptocurrency because miners are rewarded for their work with cryptocurrency tokens. In a more technical sense, cryptocurrency mining is a transactional process that involves the use of computers and ...

  • FG Lauds Lulu’s Investment In Youth Development, Assures FOSLA Academy Of Support

    The Federal government has applauded the proprietor of the FOSLA Academy and former president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Sani Abdullahi Lulu, for his consistency and investment in the youth development and called on other Nigerians to emulate the efforts being made by his institution to groom talents from their ...

  • South West IPMAN Opts Out Of Nationwide Strike

    South West Zonal chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) yesterday dissociated itself from the purported nationwide strike directed by leadership of the association over an alleged invasion of its national secretariat by security operatives late last week. IPMAN South West zone has directed its members to ...

  • Nigeria: DPR Reiterates Support for Investment in Oil, Gas

    [This Day] The Director, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Mr. Sarki Auwalu, has reiterated the commitment of the organisation to support investments in the oil and gas industry to the benefit of all stakeholders.

  • Hoy por hoy

    En el Ministerio de la Presidencia –a cargo del vicepresidente de la República, José Gabriel Carrizo–, la imaginación llegó a su límite. Con el siguiente artículo de la Ley de Contrataciones Públicas, se prevé otorgar un contrato directo a una empresa que presta servicios de investigación de mercado y ...

  • Lassa Fever: Nigeria Selected For Vaccine Trial

    The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has been awarded €22.8 million by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to conduct a Phase IIb clinical trial of IAVI’s Lassa fever vaccine among adults and children in Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. ...

  • Keystone Educates MSMEs On Opportunities In AfCFTA Window

    In its unflinching efforts to continue to support micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria with knowledge to manage and grow their businesses, Keystone Bank Limited recently trained start-ups with the requisite knowledge about the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) window and the opportunities it presents to their ...

  • Interim Dividend Payment Pushes Investors Towards Tier-1 Banks

    Nigeria’s tier-one financial institutions are attracting investors’ interest over interim dividend payment as half-year (H1) period ended June 30, 2021, draws nearer. For many investors, dividend-paying stocks have come to make a lot of sense in Nigeria given the prevailing belief that making return on investment is the essence of ...