Naira fell marginally against the U.S dollar at the parallel market on Tuesday, after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that it has ended the sales of forex to Bureau De Change operators. The bank said the parallel market [...]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Company Ltd and Polaris Bank from tampering, howsoever, with funds standing to their credit up to $6,759,000 (about N2.8 billion) or its equivalent in any currency [...]
Last week was a scary one for millions of Nigerians who have been impoverished by the government’s rising appetite for easy money, including debt, and missteps of statecraft. Scary, not because the government has secured a fresh loan or about [...]
The recent approval of two fresh foreign loans of $1.5 billion and €995 million respectively, by the Senate, has raised a lot of concerns among many stakeholders in the country. Many have considered it a very bad move in the [...]
The £4.2 million recovered from the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, has been paid to the Delta State Government, the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, said on Tuesday. The fund, which the federal government recently received from [...]
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoy, has canvassed the payment of interests on stolen funds by benefiting foreign nations as part of measures to redress the menace of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). The [...]
A Paris summit Tuesday promised to help Africa overcome the coronavirus pandemic with a “New Deal” using global financial firepower to replenish depleted coffers and ramp up a sluggish vaccine rollout. The summit, which brought together African leaders and global [...]
Godwin Owoh, a professor of applied economics and expert in central banking, in an interview with GEOFF IYATSE, speaks on the economic distortion caused by unrestrained Ways & Means (W&M) financing, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) supervision and other [...]
Tesla hit the brakes Wednesday on letting people pay for electric cars with bitcoin, saying the computing-intense mining process of creating new cryptocurrency spews climate-harming emissions. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has queried the Board of the First Bank of Nigeria Plc for removing Dr Adesola Adeduntan, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, without regulatory approval. The query is contained in a letter dated April 28, 2021, signed [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned Nigerians against what it described as any investment that promises returns that looks too good to be true. “Though risk-taking is considered by some as the oxygen that drives investment decisions, [...]
The National Economic Council (NEC) has denied the federal government printed money to boost allocations to states in March, brushing aside explanations by the central bank governor that the bank was within its rights to do so. The government had [...]
The debts of four states exceeded their net revenues by more than 400 per cent, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission has said. The states are Lagos, Osun, Cross River and Ogun. The FRC in its report ‘Debt sustainability analysis of state [...]
Moves to bolster the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) emergency reserves could provide the $44bn needed to vaccinate 70 percent of the population in lower- and middle-income countries by the end of 2022, at no added cost to rich countries, according [...]
Nigeria’s food inflation rate surged to 21.79% in February 2021, which is the highest rate recorded in Nigeria since October 2005—exactly 15 years and 4 months ago. The February 2021 CPI and Inflation Report as released by the National Bureau [...]
Nigeria’s total public debt as at December 31, 2020 was N32.915 trillion, the Debt Management Office has said. The figures include the debt stock of the federal and state governments, as well as, the Federal Capital Territory. The DMO blames the rise [...]
Nigeria will continue to lose over $6b yearly to cash economy if the Federal Government fails to urgently address prevailing challenges that are hampering the nation’s transition to a digital economy. Stakeholders in the financial and technology sectors are deeply [...]
The disclosure yesterday of plans by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele to pursue, among other objectives, the recapitalisation of the banking sector, have triggered suspicions of distress in the industry. Pundits, who pursue this line of argument [...]
After four years of abeyance, the Federal Government yesterday inaugurated the board of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At the occasion in Abuja, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, who is also overseeing the office of [...]
The International Monetary Fund has warned Nigeria and other oil-exporting countries over rising foreign debts, saying there is a need to make external borrowings sustainable. The Fund, however, commended Nigeria for the recent reforms aimed at reducing infrastructure gap in [...]
INJUSTICE BEING DONE TO SUPPORT STAFF OF FIRSTBANK NIGERIA BY THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BANK In the year 2008, there was a need for the bank to recruit staff for tellering activities of the bank (the major banking service). The [...]
WE are happy that domestic retail investors are returning. This is because of what we see in the economy now. The government has shown that it has become more committed in improving the economy through the ease of doing business [...]
A former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said some of the projects that constituted the Paris Club debt were dubious and fraudulent. Mr. Obasanjo also explained why he headhunted Nigeria’s immediate past finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who also held that [...]
Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, said yesterday that more than half of Nigeria’s value added tax, VAT, comes from Lagos State alone. Kemi Adeosun Speaking at the parley between the Federal Government and Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, in Abuja, Adeosun [...]
The Senate on Thursday said there was a capital flight of $13.92 billion by MTN Nigeria between 2006 and 2016. Senate confirmation was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial [...]
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, Ibrahim Magu has accused Nigerian banks of providing a safe haven for corrupt looters in the country. Magu blamed banks in the country for creating a friendly atmosphere for looters to [...]
Former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered Plc in the United Kingdom. Okonjo-Iweala Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company head-quartered in London and with presence in [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday retained the nation’s monetary interest rate at 14 per cent, citing headwinds confronting the domestic economy on one hand and the uncertainties in the global environment on the other as reasons for its [...]
Nigeria can no longer afford to continue borrowing to fund its budget and must seek alternative fundraising mechanisms, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Tuesday. “We need to mobilise additional revenue to fund our budget,” she said. “We have got [...]
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is claiming ownership of the $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23, 218,000 seized Wednesday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from Osborne Towers, a luxury residential complex in Ikoyi, Lagos, owned by Mr. Adamu Muazu, a [...]
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