• USA

    Solar energy-related stocks dip on looming US import safeguard

    Stocks of solar energy-related stocks in South Korea traded sharply lower Monday on concerns that the United States may

  • Giappone

    Asahi, Japan’s top brewer, takes on the Europeans, eyes Super Dry expansion in U.S.

    Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. will ramp up sales of its top-selling Super Dry beer in Europe with local production aided by faster integration of last ...

  • Giappone

    Mizuho reportedly plans to offer AI trading before EU’s MiFID overhaul

    Mizuho Financial Group Inc. will start artificial-intelligence trading to bolster its Japanese equity business, according to people with knowledge of the plan.Japan’s third-biggest lender will ...

  • Nigeria

    NOUN, FHC and the new judgment date

    Everything with a beginning also has an end. The law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, were shut out since 2013 from the Nigerian Law School for vocational training by the Council of Legal Education, despite the National Universities Commission’s accreditation. The graduates had futilely approached all relevant ...

  • Nigeria

    Sukuk bond: No plan to Islamise Nigeria, says FG

    Oyetunji Abioye The Federal Government has said that there is no plan to Islamise the country with the recent issuance of its N100bn Sukuk bond. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said this on the sidelines of an investor conference organised by Stanbic IBTC Bank in Lagos. Offer for ...

  • Nigeria

    Compulsory insurance’ll enhance safety of cities – LCCI

    Nike Popoola The Chairman Insurance Group, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Gboyega Olanbiwoninu, has said that full implementation of the compulsory insurance policies will boost the safety of cities. He said this during an insurance stakeholders’ forum organised by the LCCI Insurance Group in Lagos. A statement from ...

  • Nigeria

    Sukkuk is stealth jihad, Christian leaders insist

    Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The National Christian Elders Forum has described the Sukkuk bond as illegal, unconstitutional and a stealthy way of Islamising the country. The NCEF Chairman, Chief Solomon Asemota, in a statement on Sunday explained that proponents of the Sharia-compliant finance often conveyed the false impression that Sukkuk is an ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘Amend rent law, regulate agency fees’

    Sesan Olufowobi A lawyer, Mr. Kabir Akingbolu, has called on the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to initiate the process of amending the Lagos State Rent Control Law to regulate fees chargeable by property agents as commissions. Akingbolu, in a letter to the governor, which he made available to journalists ...

  • Nigeria

    SPE: Nigeria spends over $10m daily on fuel import

    ABOUT $10 million (about N3.6 billion) is spent on petroleum products import daily, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has said In the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of crude oil but depends on refined product imports to oil the engine of the ...

  • Nigeria

    Merger: World’s largest brewer to increase Nigerian equity stake to 75.1%

    The world’s largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev will increase its majority equity stake in its Nigerian main business, International Breweries Plc, to 75.1 per cent. This will happen after ongoing consolidation of its businesses in the country into a single entity. Anheuser-Busch InBev has already received the regulatory approvals from the ...