Business & Economy

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said there is no iota of truth in the claim made by the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, that the Central Bank of…
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The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that households and businesses affected by the Covid-19 can now apply for loans under its N50bn Targeted Credit Facility. The apex bank noted that…
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Three prominent Nigerian conglomerates-- Dangote Group, Flour Mills and BUA-- are currently locked in a tug of war over production and export of sugar. Chairman of Dangote Group of…
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Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Federal Government, in line with the deregulation of the oil sector, will leave the prices of petroleum products to be determined by the…
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced new charges for customers using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services. The apex bank has announced that from…
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The new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Tuesday paid a visit to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Headquarters in Abuja. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala…
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The latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that Nigeria's unemployment rate rose from 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 per cent in the…
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Helpless Nigerians presently managing to eke a living are being subjected to yet another stress of standing in long-winding queues of vehicles to buy petrol at fuel stations across the…
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Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.11% (year-on-year) in real terms in the fourth quarter of 2020, representing the first positive quarterly growth in the last three…
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