Category: Business

In Nigeria, economic hardship bites harder as citizens lament

• Hike  in VAT, cost of electricity, petrol, foodstuffs unbearable, Nigerians lament • Mass Action Looms • Petrol Marketers Back Deregulation Nigerians appeared...

Tax reform: FIRS launches online portal for financial institutions

    The Federal Inland Revenue(FIRS) has launched a new Automatic Exchange of Information-Common Reporting Standard (AEOI-CRS) system for the use of financial...

Incoming int’l flights shall carry a maximum of 200 passengers – NCAA

  The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the regulatory body for aviation in Nigeria has announced that the maximum number of passengers of each incoming...

Access Bank gets new non executive director

  Access Bank Plc, a Nigeria’s leading bank on Friday announced the appointment of Mr. Hassan M.T Usman, FCA as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Bank...

Health insurance to boost life expectancy, economy – Kwara gov

  ·          State enrols 10,000 indigents in scheme ·              Kwara showing strong leadership in healthcare    Kwara State Governor...

NBC backs MCSN’s GOCREATE APP

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has assured the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd/Gte (MCSN) of its support and backing in the Society’s deployment of...

NNPC gets circa USD1B to fund upstream operations of NPDC

 The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has obtained a prepayment funding of circa US$1b to support the upstream operations of its subsidiary, Nigerian...

Nigeria records N1.8trn trade deficit – NBS

Nigeria recorded trade balance deficit of N1.8tn at the end of the second quarter. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed this in its ‘Foreign trade in goods...

Petrol

Petrol pump price now N151 per litre

The pump price of petroleum products have increased to N151 from the prevailing price of N145. This was contained in an internal memo sent to all stake holders by the...