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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday listed the need to protect Nigeria’s businesses from unhealthy competition, pressures and closure as some of the reasons why the country is reluctant in signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) among the countries making up the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Buhari explained...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index on Wednesday maintained downward slide, dropping further by 0.26 per cent as the index shed 105.78 points or 0.26 per cent to close at 40,749.86 against 40,855.64 achieved on Tuesday. Similarly, the market capitalisation, which opened at N14.758 trillion, lost N18 billion...

  The Presidency on Wednesday told Nigerians to count their blessings for what the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has brought to the country’s economy as it declared his tenure a success. It, however, also conceded that there was a lot of work that remains to be done. A statement...

  The shares of Unity Bank Plc posted a percentage growth of 121.82 per cent on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to emerge the best performing stock for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. Data gathered by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) showed that the stock which opened...

The National Pension Commission (PenCom), on Wednesday, issued compliance certificates to more than 4,000 firms to enable them bid for Federal Government contracts. The Head, Research and Corporate Strategy Department, PenCom, Dr Amino Farouk made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He...

  Against the expectations, that The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday left the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) unchanged at 14 per cent. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, announced the decision of the committee at the end of a two-day meeting held...

Governors in the  fold of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have finally resolved their differences on the position of President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the extension of the tenure of the party chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other officials. The decision followed a second meeting between president Buhari and the...

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) have warned against that reinstatement of suspended Director General (DG) of Security and Exchange Commission (SEC),  Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, back into office will further dent the anti-graft war campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari administration. In a statement, Isaac Ojemhenke, the ASCSN...

The former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, again restated the need for a true federal structure in the country, noting that no country with same cultural diversity in Nigeria will live under a unitary government. Anyaoku who spoke on Tuesday at the launch of an autobiography of elder statesman,...

  Mr Mustapha Bukar, a Senator who was representing Katsina North (Daura Zone) in the Senate, died on Wednesday morning after a brief illness. Daura is the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari. Details of the place or hospital where he died are sketchy as at time of filing this report....