• Nigeria: Nigeria Will Be Top Investment Hub By 2019, Buhari Says

    [Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the global community that Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places of doing business in the world by 2019.

  • Nigeria: Nigeria Will Be Among Top Investment Countries in 2019 - Buhari

    [Leadership] Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places of doing business in the world by 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured.

  • Nigeria: Kogi, Juma Partner On $1 Billion Investment in Water, Agriculture

    [Leadership] Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, has described the programmes and policies of his administration as geared towards making Kogi, Nigeria's economic hub.

  • Coscharis Motors unveils special offers for Jaguar buyers

    Coscharis Motors has announced special offers for buyers of Jaguar products. Its President, Dr Cosmas Maduka said the firm is  offering special prices, free insurance and a two-year service plan for Jaguar products for one month to guests at the launch. Maduka spoke at the unveiling of the Jaguar’s first ...

  • ‘Ondo needs governor with business experience’

    Dr. Olusegun Abraham is a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State. He spoke with Group Political Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU on his chances at the primary and preparations for the election. How are you warming up for the primary? I am warming up ...

  • Season of disillusionment and hardship

    Once again, I am pressed to comment on the state of our dear nation. The objective reality in Nigeria today is that the economy is increasingly becoming bitchy. Right now the socioeconomic numbers do not add up and the social equation has been seriously skewed. The Naira is still on ...

  • Kogi, Juma Partner On $1bn Investment In Water, Agriculture

    Kogi State Governor  Yahaya Bello,  has described  the  programmes and policies of his administration as geared towards making Kogi,  Nigeria’s economic hub. He stressed that his arms were open to investors – foreign or local willing  to partner with him in achieving this objective. Governor Bello was speaking at the ...

  • Naira falls further to 414/dollar

    Oyetunji Abioye and ‘Femi Asu The naira fell to a new low of 414 against the United States dollar on Sunday amid the continued scarcity of foreign exchange in the country, with economic experts predicting further pressure in the forex market this week. The development came five days after the ...

  • Ease of doing business: Nigeria will be top 100 countries by 2019, says Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya that Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places of doing business in the world by 2019. Speaking at a plenary session on “Dialogue with the Private Sector” at the sixth Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD ...

  • PMB: African Countries Can Learn From Japan In Developing Agriculture

    Says Nigeria will devote more funds to Agriculture next year  President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. Speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth ...

  • Nigeria: We Will Protect Foreign Investments in Nigeria - Buhari

    [Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday night in Nairobi, Kenya, reassured existing and prospective foreign investors that their investments in Nigeria were secured and would be fully protected.

  • Nigeria: Buhari Assures Foreign Investors of Security of Nigerian Investments

    [Premium Times] President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday night strongly assured existing and prospective foreign investors that their investments in Nigeria will be fully secured and protected.

  • CBN accuses banks of violating international money transfer rules

    The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has accused commercial banks of compromise in the ways they handle proceeds from international money transfer inflows into the country. A circular to banks titled: Illicit International Money Remittances Through The Banking System, and signed by CBN Acting Director, Trade and Exchange, W.D. Gotring, ...

  • Current Business Situation In Nigeria Not Impressive – Survey

    About 45 percent of manufacturing companies in Nigeria have revealed that the current business situation is not impressive while 12 percent stated that it is neither good nor bad. While 5 percent of the companies accepted that the business is very good, 38 percent said the business is good. The ...

  • Diversifying The Nigerian Economy

    Diversifying the Nigerian economy to address near total reliance on proceeds from the oil and gas sector is a policy that has been touted by successive governments in Nigeria. With the recent crash in oil price and consequent hardship engendered by this over-reliance on oil, it has become more compelling ...

  • Esuk Mba: Endangered Nigeria’s Barter Market

    EsukMba Market is located in Esuk/Mba clan in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State. The Market is about 30 kilometres away from Calabar metropolis. EsukMba is a unique kind of market, at least one of the surviving Barter Market settings around. In this market, the old Barter System ...

  • Sobran las ordenanzas y falta el civismo

    José Neyra Moncada – Director ¿De qué sirve una ley u ordenanza si esta no se hace cumplir? ¿De qué sirve que los piuranos inviertan dinero en pagar dietas a los regidores para debatir por horas y aprobar una norma, si al final esta va a parar a un polvoriento archivo y nadie ...

  • Ipea aponta pequena alta em investimentos no país no segundo trimestre

    O Indicador de Formação Bruta de Capital Fixo (FBCF), divulgado hoje (26) pelo Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea), aponta para alta de 0,38% nos investimentos no país no segundo trimestre deste ano em relação ao trimestre anterior. O indicador do Ipea funciona como prévia do Sistema de Contas Nacionais ...

  • Oil price slide will open other sectors of economy – Soludo

    A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo, has said that the current slide in oil price was an opportunity for the nation to explore other vital sectors of the economy. He said, “every disappointment is a blessing and I see the drop in the ...

  • Issuance Of Passport In Canada, Stress-free – Dabiri-Erewa

    The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the issuance of Nigerian passport in Canada as stress-free. Dabiri-Erewa who was reacting to an old CBC video circulating on social media in a statement made available to LEADERSHIP on Friday in Abuja ...

  • 100% Examination On Container Not Possible – Customs Boss

    The Apapa Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, has said that 100 percent examination on imported cargoes into the country  was  not possible. This was disclosed by the ASYCUDA project manager, (APM) of the command,Yusuf Malata, at a monthly stakeholders’ meeting held at the command headquarters, Lagos. Speaking ...