Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, have gained N468 billion in three weeks, as the positive run in the stock market continued last week. This sharply contracts the N660 billion loss suffered by investors last month on the NSE. Data from the NSE showed that market capitalization, which represents total value of all listed …
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Nigeria’s overnight lending rate fell this week to around 3 percent on Friday from an average of 3.9 percent a week ago on expectations that budget cash will be injected into the banking system on Friday or Monday, traders said. Nigeria, an OPEC member and Africa’s biggest economy, relies on crude oil sales for two-thirds …
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THE management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has written off N119 billion bad debts. The debts are monies owned the agency by terminal operators and some of its partners in the last ten years. The Managing Director of the Authority, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, said that private companies and government agencies owe NPA about N10 …
Christmas is fast approaching and a lot of festivities will be going on. While some people are focusing on their weight, especially after two holidays of eating good food, others are focusing on their finances and setting financial goals for the New Year 2017. There is no better time to start planning your finances than …
The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Ferdinand Moolman last week appealed to the senate to consider the Data price floor as set by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, saying that data price is among the lowest in the continent. Moolman who made presentations in Abuja, at the Senate hearing on Data price floor, also …
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Nigeria plans to sell 95 billion naira ($302 million) worth of bonds on Dec. 14, its last debt auction for the year, the Debt Management Office (DMO) said on Tuesday. The office said it would sell 35 billion naira of a bond maturing in 2036, 25 billion naira of paper maturing in 2026 and 35 …
Port operations in the country have been hit by hike in import duties of vehicles and rice as well as the introduction of a fish quota system by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Seaport operators disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Lagos and decried the effects of prolonged low activities at …
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Following an injection of naira liquidity into the banking system, Nigeria’s overnight lending rate dropped sharply to an average of 3.9 percent on Friday from 10 percent a week ago. A total of 454 billion naira ($1.49 billion) in debt refund to state governments and matured treasury bills entered the system this week, raising liquidity …
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Tanzania and Nigeria’s Dangote Cement have reached an agreement on the supply of natural gas to the firm’s manufacturing plant in the East African country after negotiations stalled over prices, Tanzanian President John Magufuli said on Saturday. The $500 million cement factory in the southeastern Tanzanian town of Mtwara, set up last year with an …
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) have commissioned a study on the establishment of an institution that would take after the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) at its expiration. The institution, which is being scripted as a private sector-led initiative to avoid the use of public fund …
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