Nigeria’s Senate has approved the sum of N5.079 trillion as a revenue target and N706.4 billion as budget for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the 2024 fiscal year. The Red Chambers’ approval of the proposals followed the consideration of a report presentation by the Chairman of the Committee on Customs, Excise, and Tariff, Senator […]
Ogun State Government has expressed its desire to collaborate with the National Council on Transportation, neighbouring states, development partners like the UK-Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility and multilateral institutions like the World Bank, to actualise the vision for seamless multimodal transportation in the state. The State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, disclosed this during the opening ceremony […]
….Lagos Attracts 65.35% Of Capital Inflows The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) at the weekend reported that Nigeria’s total capital importation value in the fourth quarter of last year marginally increased to $1.088 billion, slightly higher than the $1.060 billion recorded in Q4 2022 and represented a 2.62% year-on-year increase. But then, the statistics agency […]
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) at the weekend disclosed that the total pension assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) had grown to about N18 trillion as of December 2023 even as registered contributors also increased to about 10.I million. The commission’s Head, Corporate Communications Department, Ibrahim Garba Buwai, who gave these hints at the […]
Investment researchers at Bancorp Securities Limited, a leading investment research and consulting firm, have projected that trading on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) this week would be bullish as Banking and Service sectors stocks attract investors’ interest. However, the experts in the firm’s ‘Weekly Stock Recommendation: Feb 19- Feb 23’ circulated to our correspondent noted that […]
The African Guarantee Fund (AGF), a leader in promoting financing of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) across Africa and FSD Africa, a pioneering development agency committed to reshaping Africa’s long-term financial landscape, have signed a strategic collaborative pact aimed at propelling the growth of Green SMEs by providing critical financial support, technical assistance, and capacity […]
Nigeria’s unemployment rate significantly surged to 5.0% in the third quarter of 2023, representing an increase of 0.8% points increase over the unemployment rate of the preceding quarter. The figures were given by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its ‘Labour Force Survey Q3 2023’ report published on Monday on its website. An analysis […]
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has unveiled plans to meet with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Ministry of Works this Friday with a view to reviewing about N2.59 trillion tax credit scheme for road repairs and construction in the country. The Chairman of the federal revenue service, Dr. Zacch Adedeji, during a […]
Despite the raging controversies over plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) management to relocate some of the bank’s departments to Lagos, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has also hinted of its plans to relocate some of its units from Abuja to Lagos. The commission in an internal memo titled ‘Movement to […]
Nigeria’s inflation rate in January 2024 further increased, rising to 29.90% from 28.92% recorded in the previous month, amid macroeconomic whirlwinds in the nation’s socioeconomic space. The latest National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ‘CPI and Inflation Report January 2024’ report posted on its website on Thursday indicated that the increase in the general price level […]