Tag: economy

She also said that 75 per cent of registered companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises, were not in the tax ...

The shareholders made their position known at the bank's 23rd Annual general Meeting, AGM, in Lagos. Shareholders of Diamond Bank ...

The Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Godwin Emefiele, is to be the next Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. ...

The NNPC insists that it owes no money to the government. But its documents can only be verified by forensic ...

Minister Okonjo-Iweala says tax waivers and concessions have had negative impacts on the country's revenue base. The Federal Government lost ...

I was about to write this piece detailing the positive effects of the Transformation Agenda when I was confronted with ...

Reuben Abati said Mrs. Alison-Madueke cannot approve the sale of the refineries. Despite the statements of various government officials including ...

A staff said this was the first time it had ever happened in the villa. Top civil servants working at ...

Let me begin with a confession; I am no economist, so some of the ways of budgeting may indeed be ...

The latest inflation rate, for August, is at a five-year low of 8.2 percent Financial Derivatives Company, FDC, a diversified ...

While the government insists the nation's economy is healthy, sector indicators increasingly suggest otherwise The Nigerian economy has continued to ...

Four new locomotives were inaugurated at the Apapa port. The Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, on Friday said that the ...

The House has not given date for the hearing. The House of Representatives said Thursday it welcomed “wholeheartedly” a challenge ...

Small businesses will be able to source for funding not only with landed properties. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ...

Many banks have released their 2013 half-year results. Majority of the banks in Nigeria have released their 2013 first half ...

The state government demolished its old secretariat for the project. The Ogun State Government on Friday completed the demolition of ...

Sri-Lanka pledged to support Nigeria’s bid for a UN Security Council permanent seat. President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday in Abuja called ...

The minister said borrowing “facilitates you to do what you cannot do with your resources.” The Minister of State for ...

The governors said this in a communiqué after their meeting. The governors of the All Progressive Congress, APC, at the ...

The Minister criticised the high level of recurrent expenditure. The Minister of State for Finance, Yerima Ngama, said on Tuesday ...

The minister said government does not have the resources to meet ASUU’s demand. The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has ...

The youth charged the government to tackle unemployment. Some youth in Port Harcourt have cited unemployment and poverty as being ...

Our country is in the news these days often for the wrong reasons. Nigeria is a country devastated by poverty, ...

Nigeria’s former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, recently announced that he is offering one undergraduate/postgraduate scholarship to young Nigerians, to cover ...

The Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, at its emergency meeting of Friday began discussions on the 2014 budget. The ...