With less than three years to the 2015 date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it remains a fact the goal of the MDGs to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, is far from being achieved as poverty still remains in ...
As part of measures to boost crossborder trade amongst members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Sonnex Packaging Nigeria Limited and Kasapreko Company Limited Of Ghana yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understa...
For Agriculture to play a key role in diversifying the economy, it is needful to have stable policies backed by parliamentary Acts, says Mr. Emma Ajayi, Managing Director/CEO, CG BIOSTADTT. In a chat with LEADERSHIP , ...
Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Establishment, States and Local Government, Senator Aloysius Etok yesterday declared that the Pension Reform Task Team head by Abdulrasheed Maina stole pension funds. Etok who was reacting to an allegation of b...
Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Minister of Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga for the third time yesterday failed to appear before the Senate Committee on Investment to explain ...
The sacked director general of the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (NSE), Mrs. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, yesterday said that despite contrary statements, she remains the director general of the NSE, having been declared so by a High Court ruling ...
Few years ago, no one would have believed that Nokia, former world’s largest handset maker would be in deep trouble. The Finnish company had in the past few years seen its stranglehold on the phone market eroded first by the likes of ...
Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday ended on a downward trend after several weeks of consistent growth. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this was as a result of the drop recorded in the market indices by 0.42 ...
A former President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has urged the Federal Government to resuscitate palm oil industry to diversify the economy. Dr Simon Okolo told the News Agency of Nigeria...
Some financial experts on Monday expressed worry over the regular delay in releasing budgetary allocations to the federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). They said, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lago...
Some financial experts on Sunday attributed the rising unemployment rate in the country to poor corporate governance. They agreed, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, that sound corporate governance was a veritable to...
Managing Director of Unity Bank, Ado Wanka, said in Kaduna on Saturday that the insecurity in the country was hampering business growth. Wanka, who was represented by a director in the bank, Alhaji Gimba Hassan, made the statement at an event to ...
In its determination to entrench transparency and accountability in the downstream sector, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has hammered NIMEX Petroleum Ltd, an oil trading company from Switzerland. The Executive Secretary...
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said on Thursday that N14.2 billion has been saved on personnel cost through the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS). She made this known in Abuja at the ministerial platform to co...
Mr Gimba Kumo, the Managing Director of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, (FMBN) has said that the bank will soon undergo reforms to enable it realise its primary aim. Kumo was speaking on Thursday in Abuja, while answering questions from newsmen at th...