archiveDecember 2019

General Olu Bajowa (Rtd) has expressed optimism that Nigeria will soon overcome the challenges she is facing now, saying that her economic and political challenges will ease off in the course of time. He called for devolution of power and drastic reduction of the expensive cost of governance in the...

  Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria’s current debt situation is closer to the prevalent situation in the 70’s and 80’s that led the country and the African continent as a whole into unservicable debts. Obasanjo said this on Friday in Lagos at the first edition of the...

      The latest report from the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS) has shown that banks’ customers carried out financial transactions on the instant payment and Point of Sale (PoS) platforms worth N97.32 trillion between January and November this year. A breakdown of the data indicated that the customers...

To crease the list of items notvalid-for foreign exchange funding above 43 items to ease pressure on the country’s current account, CBN Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, Edward Lametek  Adamu has said. The advice was contained in his personal statement in Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) report released on Wednesday by the...

  The 2019 Nigeria Banking Industry Customer Experience Survey report published by KPMG Nigeria showed that Ecobank Nigeria recorded significant improvement in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) segment of the survey. According to the report, analysis of performance in the SME segment reveals dynamism in the 2019 ranking. Despite...

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    An analysis by Chinyere Joel-Nwokeoma (NAN) With no fewer than six days of trading before the year ends, it is almost certain that transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) will close in the red zone. The outgoing year is, indeed, turning out to be yet another locust...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has called former President Goodluck Jonathan to sympathise with him following an attack by gunmen on his Otuoke country residence in Bayelsa. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. In the...

Christmas is typically a fun-filled season for everyone; for parents it’s a time to spend time with their children, for friends it’s a time to enjoy the company of one another and for kids it’s a time to see Santa Claus. For everyone, it’s generally a time of merriment. Regardless...

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has urged Christians, residents of Oyo State and Nigerians in general to ensure they live in peace and harmony in the spirit of Christmas. The Governor, in a goodwill message, made available in Ibadan said that every resident and indigene of Oyo State need...