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In a bid to drive the goals of the Human Capital Development (HCD) programme of the federal government, Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Monday, approved the constitution of a multi-sectoral committee. According to a statement by presidential spokesman in the ...

Globally, access to finance is a critical success factor in the growth and development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Financial inclusion on the other hand is the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services. It helps ...

Inflation rate in Nigeria has increased 24 times in the last 25 months (two years), according to findings by The PUNCH. This is according to an analysis of the Commodity Price Index reports published by the National Bureau of Statistics. The ...

The Global System for Mobile Telecommunication Association has highlighted the adverse impact of taxation and duty levies on smartphone adoption in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. According to GSMA’s report, taxes and duties contribute to 10 to 30 percent increase in ...

The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lamido Yuguda, has said that the commission will be focusing on infrastructure financing via the capital market in the new year. Yuguda said this on Friday at the third quarter post Capital Market ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria said that its monetary policy reforms are beginning to have positive effects on the country’s economy.  Reacting to the just-released inflation rate for October in a statement issued by the Director of the Corporate Communications ...

Banks now owe telecommunication firms N200bn for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data services. This is following a slowing of negotiations between the banks and telcos. Telecom operators disclosed this on Thursday at the Nigerian Communications Commission industry interactive session with the ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled plans to create a new e-dividend portal that would help simplify the process of mandating accounts in the capital market. The director-general of SEC, Lamido Yuguda stated this at the Commission two days ...

President Bola Tinubu in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, has advanced negotiations concerning a multi-billion dollar infrastructure finance facility from the Islamic Development Bank to fund a multi-sectoral portfolio of infrastructure projects at the federal and sub-national levels in Nigeria. According to ...

The federal government yesterday acknowledged that over 20 million Nigerians in the Diaspora remit an average of more than $24 billion per annum.  It also said it was willing to support the initiatives of Nigerians in Diaspora in the housing ...