The initiative, unveiled on June 17, forms part of Nigeria’s Digital Switch-Over (DSO) programme and is designed to provide households with access to over 100 television channels without monthly subscription fees.
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has expressed concerns that the current economic reforms implemented by the Federal Government are not fostering growth within the private sector. Instead, these reforms appear to be disproportionately benefiting the public sector. The public sector encompasses the segments of the economy that are…
Kebbi State Deputy Governor, Umar Tafida has visited the site, where rescue efforts are still ongoing to save the five trapped victims.
“Payments are ongoing, and over 700,000 Heritage Bank customers have already received their insured funds through BVN-linked accounts.
SINOMACH, a Chinese conglomerate, is investing $1 billion in Nigeria’s sugar Industry. The memorandum of understanding for the development of a sugarcane cultivation and processing plant capable of producing one million metric tonnes of sugar has been signed by the investor and the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC). In the agreement, SINOMACH is set to…
The RwandAir partnership will be formally flagged off in June 2026,” said the Minister.
▪︎Dr. Doris Anite -Uzoka, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment From the ban on styrofoam, popularly known as “take away packs” to Single-Use Plastics (SUP), the Lagos State Government is on the march again to ban pure water and table waters starting January 2025. The state’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, revealed…
Commodity Price Chg % SoybeansUSd/Bu1304.46 13.04 -0.99% WheatUSd/Bu691.79 15.21 -2.15 Palm Oil MYR/T 4673.00 99.00 -2.07% CoffeeUSd/Lbs277.32 1.97 0.72% CottonUSd/Lbs82.802 0.508 -0.61% CocoaUSD/T5590.00 62.00 1.12% SugarUSd/Lbs18.61 0 -0.02%
Nigeria’s challenge is no longer simply mobilising capital; it is creating the conditions under which banks can profitably lend that capital to businesses capable of producing, expanding, exporting and creating jobs,writes FRANKLIN OCHENEYI • Image: Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Lagos. RECENTLY, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Olayemi Cardoso , urged commercial banks to lend…
It is a 10-year period within which we will have advanced manufacturing to a stage where we go beyond the nine percent, 10 per cent contribution to GDP to as high as 20 to 25 per cent.”
