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  1. Nigeria Business News

    Business Access Bank now Nigeria’s largest lender after N27bn Diamond merger – BusinessDay

    Access Bank Plc is growing fast; swallowing one bank at a time to achieve an old ambition that came closer with the acquisition of Diamond bank. Access Bank’s rise started with its acquisition of a bigger bank in the shape of Intercontinental Bank in 2012, … Read more via BusinessDay...
  2. Nigeria Metro News

    Metro Employment Scam: Okonjo Iweala’s signature forger jailed- EFCC – BusinessDay

    Raymond Azuka, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for forging a reference letter purportedly signed by Okonjo-Iweala, in order to gain employment at the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting, NSPM as Security Assistant 1A has been sentenced to four years …...
  3. Nigeria Business News

    Business Why Buhari, Atiku’s job promises are unrealistic – BusinessDay

    Despite the massive shedding of jobs in the economy over the last three years, where a record nine million people lost their jobs – and despite the doubling of the unemployment figure from 8.9 percent in the second quarter of 2015 to 18.8 percent Q3 … Read more via BusinessDay Online, TV, and...
  4. Nigeria Business News

    Business Buhari’s approval rating hits 4-year low – BusinessDay

    A monthly job approval rating survey, which gauges public support for the president, conducted by NOI polls shows that President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval ratings has hit a four year low, dropping to 36 percent in October 2018 from a high of 80 percent in October … Read more via BusinessDay...
  5. Nigeria Business News

    Business What Buhari’s return in 2019 will mean to real estate sector in Nigeria – BusinessDay

    After almost four years of dismal performance as reflected in sharp drop in productive capacity, reduced consumer purchasing power and poor standard of living for citizens, Nigerians are edgy and apprehensive of a possible return of Muhammadu Buhari-led government in the aftermath of the 2019 …...
  6. Nigeria Business News

    Business Nigerian stocks cheapest in Africa as investors shun risk – BusinessDay

    Not in any of Africa’s largest economies will you find cheaper company stocks yet investors want nothing to do with Nigeria at the moment and it could get worse as oil prices endure their longest losing streak since 2016. Investors currently pay as low as … Read more via BusinessDay Online...
  7. Nigeria Business News

    Business With Nigerian banks, old lending habits die hard – BusinessDay

    Nigerian banks are yet to catch the bug that agriculture should be the new oil, going by their lending patterns as shown in the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Despite the government’s push to have Nigerians return to the farm so … Read more via BusinessDay Online...
  8. Nigeria Business News

    Business Farmers as soft targets for Boko Haram make food security hard to achieve – BusinessDay

    Scores of farmers continue to be killed in some parts of the Northeast by Boko Haram, many of which go unreported. For as long as the killings continue and farmers have to stay away from farms out of fear, it will be impossible to achieve … Read more via BusinessDay Online, TV, and Podcast...
  9. Nigeria Business News

    Business Exploring opportunities in AI to bridge Nigeria’s healthcare gap – BusinessDay

    Machines are not likely to replace doctors, at least not in any foreseeable future, but through Artificial Intelligence (AI), efficiency in diagnosing patients, and administering healthcare can be improved. This is particularly important for Nigeria, which has an acute shortage of medical...
  10. Nigeria Business News

    Business Can AI help Nigeria reduce agricultural losses during flooding, nip disease outbreaks? – BusinessDay Online

    Technology adoption, particularly in Agriculture has often been slow in Nigeria, yet the potentials to make tremendous impact exists. The use of Artificial Intelligence in some parts of the world, may offer solutions to some of the problems confronting agricultural productivity in Nigeria...
  11. Nigeria Business News

    Business Stocks drop to 18-month low as bears out-muscle market bulls – BusinessDay Online, TV, and Podcast

    The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index yesterday fell to its lowest point since May last year as continued negative sentiment in the stock market pulled stock prices lower. At market close yesterday, the broad index fell 1.33 percent, settling at 30,611 points, its lowest … Read more...
  12. Nigeria Business News

    Business NNPC’s leaking pipelines cost Nigeria $467m in July – BusinessDay

    Nigeria’s lost a total $467 million in July due to shut-in of production from leaking pipelines carrying crude oil from wells to flow stations in the Niger Delta, where more than 90 percent of the country’s crude are explored. The loss comes from 6.29 million … Read more via BusinessDay...
  13. Nigeria Business News

    Business CBN boosts forex liquidity with $210m – BusinessDay

    The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, enhanced liquidity by intervening in the wholesale segment of the foreign exchange market, offering the sum of $100 million to dealers in that window. In the latest round of intervention, which was made public … Read more via...
  14. Nigeria Metro News

    Metro WAEC 2018 Nov/ Dec WASSCE results show 60% failure rate – BusinessDay

    The West African Examination Council, WAEC results for private candidates in the 2018 November/December Examination, shows a 60 percent failure rate. The Head, Nigeria National Office of WAEC, Olu Adenipekun, while announcing the results on Wednesday in Calabar said that 39, 557 candidates...
  15. Nigeria Business News

    Business Next Nigerian President faces $9.8bn in outstanding legal disputes – BusinessDay

    From the recent disputes with international oil companies over production sharing contracts and a regulatory collusion involving the local unit of MTN Group, to the long-standing spat with local company, Continental Transfert Technique Ltd, there are a pile of legal landmines facing Nigeria’s...
  16. Nigeria Business News

    Business Stock investors’ apathy seen in declining volumes on NSE – BusinessDay

    Uncertainty surrounding the possible outcome of Nigeria’s forthcoming elections is reflecting on the volume of equities that are trading on the nation’s bourse. The remarkable disinterest for Nigerian stocks shown by both foreign and domestic investors became glaring in the recently released...
  17. Nigeria Political News

    Politics FG to spend $12b on Port Harcourt to Maiduguri rail project – BusinessDay

    Federal government on Wednesday said the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri standard gauge railway which transverses several states including those in the South East, will be executed at the cost of $12b. The project, considered the single most costly rail project to be undertaken by the President...
  18. Nigeria Political News

    Politics President Buhari has actually completed his tenure – BusinessDay

    President Muhammadu Buhari has completed his term of office. His campaign was premised on fighting corruption, insecurity and fixing the economy. Three and half years down the road, his administration claimed to have accomplished these goals. Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, consistently...
  19. Nigeria Political News

    Politics I will build equal opportunities in society if elected president – Fela Durotoye – BusinessDay

    The presidential candidate of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Fela Durotoye, has said he would strive to build equal opportunities where every Nigerian would have equal stake if elected the president of the country in next year’s presidential election. Durotoye, who is a renowned management...
  20. Nigeria Metro News

    Metro INEC reviews collection of PVCs, decides method of recruiting Adhoc Staff – BusinessDay

    The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is to review the progress made on the collection of outstanding Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and new modalities for a more efficient administration of the collection process. INEC is also considering the method of recruitment and training of...
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