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As a way of ensuring that subscribers get glued to its network, Airtel yesterday announced that it would offer its BlackBerry customers a service waiver following last week’s global outage attributed to the service provider, Research in Motion (R...
Veniviici.com, a UK based accessories and apparel online retail store targeted at African markets, has launched this October.
Managing the exchange, inflation and interest rates are within the purview of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and are usually determined by the fiscal behaviour of government. In this piece, STANLEY ORONSAYE examines how government’s handling ...
Some operators in the Nigerian Stock Exchange have decried the effect of the recent increase in Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) on the stock market just as the equity market in response to the development had depreciated by N152 billion five days after the ...
Ahead of the January 1, 2012 commencement date, operators in the financial services sector said they expect the regulators to come up with appropriate guidelines for the adoption and implementation of the International Financial Reporting S...
The House of Representatives has raised alarm over the refusal of government revenue generating agencies to remit revenue generated to the Federation Account. Expressing concerns at a crucial meeting between the House of Representatives Committee...
As Nigeria celebrates this year’s World Standards Day 2011,the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) yesterday took its sensitisation campaign against substandard products to schools in the Federa...
The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation is set to add colour to this year’s edition of the tourism market, Akwaaba, holding in Lagos from October 19-21, 2011. Accordingly, the corporation said in a statement that it would use the Akwaaba pla...
For its high quality services and human friendly banking policy, as well as outstanding contributions towards human development and nation building, newly crowned Miss NGO Nigeria, Miss Judith Thompson Osumenya, has declared HASAL Micro-Finance Bank th...
President of the Licensed Customs Agents of Nigeria, Alhaji Shittu, says the pruning of eight government agencies from the ports by the Finance Ministry may force down prices of goods and services in the country by up to 20 or even 30 per cent.The fede...
The Evecutive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr Eugene Juwah, has ordered mobile telecommunications service providers to reduce telephone tariffs so that subscribers can enjoy the dividends of the telecomunications revol...
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Nigeria’s apex private sector advocacy group with commitment to fostering open and continuous dialogue on the country’s economic development, will on Tuesday October 18, 2011, host Chairman of the...
As part of efforts to facilitate increased lending to the agriculture sector of the economy, the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), has given the sum of N1 billion to rural microfinance banks.Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the financial linkage forum held by R...
Over 60 per cent of the containers entering Nigeria are not inspected at the ports. The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has revealed. Director- General, SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, said these containers were sneaked into the...
The global community can help poor countries weather the current slowdown in the world economy by keeping trade flowing, encouraging investment and making good on aid promises, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. IMF Managing Di...