Asian giant, Japan, has provided Nigeria with $4.5 million (N886.5 million) grant to purchase disaster reduction equipment, a development which the Minister, National Planning Commission, Dr Abubakar Suleiman, said would…
President Goodluck Jonathan, said on Friday that his meeting with the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa on Friday was to further their conversation on the wellbeing Nigeria.…
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday closed for the week on a bearish note with the market indicators dropping by 0.03 per cent due to persistent profit…
First Bank Holding Company posted an 8.7 percent rise in its first quarter pretax profit to 26.94 billion naira ($135.38 million) after booking higher lending income. Interest income increased to…
Nigeria’s overnight lending rates halved to an average 6 percent on Friday from 12.25 percent last week after central bank retired large matured bonds and treasury bills in the week,…
Following the rising trend of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the banking industry, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered deposit money banks and discount houses to crack down on…