Rice farmers have urged state governments to follow the footstep of Ebonyi and ban the sale of foreign rice as a means of boosting local production. Mr Aminu Goronyo, the National President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), made the…
The Chief Executive Officer of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON, has been re-elected President of the African Securities Exchanges Association(ASEA)for another two-year term. This decision was reached at the Association’s 20th Annual General Meeting (AGM)…
Seye Joseph In Nigeria: if it is not any other thing, it must be corruption. A major bane that is crumbling the economic activities of the country, making the corrupt elites acquires illegitimate wealth at the expense of the innocent…
Telecommunications operators on Thursday said that setting data prices at realistic levels would enable them to provide first-rate quality of service to subscribers. They stated this in Lagos while faulting the suspension of the data tariff increment by the Nigerian…
Seye Joseph Globally, the fate of death malaria is bringing to many families is on a high note and takes a huge part in the number of diseases ravaging the world, most especially, African continent and continue to cripple the…
The timely intervention of the police in Enugu prevented the lynching of Mr Kingsley Ubenyi, the Managing Director of Kesley Mega Micro-Finance Bank, by the bank’s aggrieved customers on Friday. The spokesman of the Police Command in Enugu, Mr Ebere…
N1.6 billion has been set aside by The Federal Government from the Government Enterprise Empowerment Fund (GEEP) to empower women and young girls monthly in eight states across the country. Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, Minister of Women Affairs, disclosed this during…
President Muhammadu Buhari may present a N7.3 trillion 2017 budget proposal to the National Assembly on December 8, it was learnt yesterday. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved plans presented by Minister of Budget and Planning Udoma Udo-Udoma on Wednesday.…
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and Nigeria’s United Bank for Africa (UBA) have signed a $150 million loan agreement to finance Small and Medium Scale enterprises (SMEs). The loan was initiated to also finance infrastructure and women-owned enterprises in…
The naira depreciated to N480 to the dollar on the foreign exchange (FX) parallel market wednesday, from the N475 to the dollar it was the previous day. The renewed slide of the nation’s currency on the unofficial arm of the…
