Worse still, the commercial banks have continued to charge dollar account along with other Naira bank charges such as 35% interest rate on the facilities that these companies have with their banks.
His Majesty King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho, has urged the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to intensify efforts to eradicate poverty and end hunger in Lesotho and the rest of Africa.The Monarch also told FAO to pay closer attention to ensuring better nutrition and to mitigating the challenges caused by the impacts…
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), is calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to act quickly to pay the outstanding balance of the 2022 to 2023 foreign exchange forwards to the affected companies. Conversely, CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, maintained that the bank would not pay for FX…
▪︎Governor Fubara signs the Executive Order No. 002 of 2024 for the establishment of the Rivers State Investment Promotion Agency , in Port Harcourt, on Monday. Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has called on prospective investors to liaise with the Rivers State Investment Promotion Council for seamless investments in the State. Fubara made the…
▪︎People protest against hardship on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets across Nigeria on Thursday as they protested against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse some of the protesters in the capital, Abuja. (AP…
Cadbury Nigeria Plc has announced the appointment of Ms. Bunmi Lawson as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors of the Company Her appointment takes effect from 1st June 2024. The announcement was contained in a statement by Mr. Adedotun Sulaiman, Chairman, Cadbury Nigeria. The statement said Ms. Lawson’s appointment was ratified by shareholders…
President Bola Tinubu had in June signed the executive order to introduce zero tariffs on excise duties and value added tax (VAT) on imported pharmaceutical inputs.
Tue Beijer, co-founder and CTO and Jonas Nyvang, co-founder and CEO of Stilfold AB, share insights into how the Japanese art of origami was the inspiration behind the Swedish company Stilfold’s innovative carbon emission-busting steel-folding techniques. In a post on the World Steel Association website, the duo, said that the people who first began folding…
The Chairman of the company, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, said that the new cement plant has capaciry to produce 6000t/day of cement, and provides 10,000 direct and indirect jobs.
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) says its African Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC) in Ogun State, can now offer internationally accredited services for food and agri products in Nigeria. The international accreditation of the AQAC in Ogun to the ISO/IEC 17025:2017, was done last week by the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS). SANAS is one of…
