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The African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI), managed by the African Development Bank, hosted a Pan-African Stakeholder Workshop from October 22 to 24, 2012, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Tunis. The workshop offered a unique opportunity for policymak...
Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello is an international businessman based in Kaduna, Kaduna State. He has his finger in many good pies. Bello who is chairman of Millennium Air, a subsidiary of Millennium Travels and Tour, chairman of Properties and Estate Limit...
A new World Bank report has revealed that Africa’s farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food crises if countries remove cross-border restrictions on the food trade within the region. According to the glo...
MTN Nigeria says its subscriber base has reached 45.6 million and grew by 5.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2012. In a report released by the company in Lagos yesterday, the GSM firm said the MTN Group recorded 182.7 million subscribers. The stateme...
The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) partnership has called on oil producers, both countries and companies, to reduce flaring of natural gas associated with oil production by 30 per cent by 2017. This would reduce flaring from 140 bcm...
The management of NNPC has dissociated itself from the allegation of exporting crude oil using forged export clearance permit. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Fidel Pepple, the acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the ...
The price of petrol has risen to N120 per litre in parts of Kwara against the official price of N97, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A correspondent of NAN reports that the price prevailed at the Total petrol station in Offa, MRS and Total in...
Princess Maxima, United Nations Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, on Wednesday said all stakeholders must collaborate to ensure financial inclusion in Nigeria. Maxima said this while briefing newsmen on t...
The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mr Andrew Yakubu, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government was keying into Nigeria’s abundant hydrocarbon resources to fast track socio-economic development of the nation. A statement issued by the acting G...
The 2012 Tokyo Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank group came to a close in Tokyo Japan, with one clear message: Global growth has decelerated and substantial uncertainties and downside risks remain. The 26...
Mr. Kehinde Lawanson, Executive Director, Corporate Banking of First Bank Nigeria Plc who was at the just concluded US-Nigeria Infrastructure Conference in Washington DC spoke with ABIODUN OLUWAROTIMI, LEADERSHIP Bureau Chief in the US on corruption, i...
Nigeria’s lottery market can generate over N350 billion for the Federal Government annually if properly harnessed, the Director General of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Mr Peter Igho, said on Sunday. Igho told the News Agency...
The Kano State Government is to spend N72.5 billion on the construction of roads this year. The state's Commissioner for Lands and Physical Planning, Alhaji Mohammed Yahaya, made the announcement on Sunday while speaking with newsmen, shortly after...
The long queues for petrol by motorists and other users have disappeared at filling stations in Abuja following NNPC’s increased supply of the product, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent, who visited major filling stati...
Hajiya Maryam Ibrahim, president of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) says Nigeria needs no fewer than 100, 000 professional accountants for effective coverage. Ibrahim, who featured at a forum of the News Agency of ...