Business/Economy

Sugar Tax: MAN, NECA Commend FG, Call for its Permanent Suspension CHIGOZIE AMADI The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has commended the move by the federal government to temporarily...

NEITI Stakeholders to Track Utilisation of 30% Frontier Exploration Fund CHIGOZIE AMADI Stakeholders on the board of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) have expressed their resolve to monitor and track the utilisation of some...

Investors’ Interest in Zenith Bank, 22 Others Lift Stock Market CHIGOZIE AMADI The stock market yesterday saw a bullish performance as investors buy interest in Zenith Bank Plc and 22 others led the 0.03 per cent marginal increase in Nigerian Exchange...

NECA: Private Businesses Beset with Innumerable Challenges CHIGOZIE AMADI The immediate past President of Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Mr. Taiwo Adeniyi, has lamented that private businesses in Nigeria are besetted with innumerable challenges that have...

•LP not reason food inflation is over 40 per cent, coalition declares CHIGOZIE AMADI The 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has expressed deep worry over the country’s economic trajectory since 2015, saying the Gross...

Analysts Urge CBN to Stimulate Growth as MPC Meets, NACCIMA Lists Effects of MPR Hike on Businesses CHIGOZIE AMADI For the umpteenth time, analysts yesterday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to be wary of...

•As National Assembly joint panel summons Cardoso CHIGOZIE AMADI The federal government and National Assembly clarified, Monday, that the proposed Finance (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was not intended to impose a levy that would affect Nigerians, stressing...

•Surpasses Visa, Mastercard in transaction volume CHIGOZIE AMADI The global cryptocurrency market cap yesterday rose by 0.7 per cent to around $2.45 trillion, with the market cap of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency accounting for $1.327...

NESG: Nigeria Should Prioritize Data, Food Production CHIGOZIE AMADI The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Dr. Tayo Aduloju, has called on the federal and state governments to invest more on data...

Analysts Foresee Naira Stability at N1,500 in H2 2024 CHIGOZIE AMADI Following the recent injection of foreign exchange sales to Bureaux De Change (BDCs), by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN), analysts have predict that the...