Business

Nigeria Tax Regime Stifling Investment – CPPE

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has said that Nigeria’s current tax regime is stifling investment and economic growth. Muda Yusuf, director of the organisation, made this known in a statement detailing CPPE’s economic and business environment...

Airline Operators Risk N5m Fine, Imprisonment Over TSC Default

The new Civil Aviation Act has prescribed N5 million fine or two years jail sentence or both for any airline or its promoters who failed to remit the mandatory ticket sales charge/cargo sales charge (TSC/CSC) to the coffers of...

Equities Market: Inflation Erodes Investors’ N5.62trn Gain

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Investors in the Nigerian equities market gained N5.62 trillion Naira with market capitalisation hitting N27.92 trillion on the last trading day of the year, December 30, 2022. This is a 25.3 percent increase compared with N22.30 trillion the market...

Dangote: Beacon of Nigeria’s Economy

The Dangote Group has emerged the most impactful player on Nigeria’s struggling economy. Its activities touch the five anchors of wealth creation: investment, employment, revenue, export and infrastructure in diverse ways. By this, the firm has reduced the vulnerability of...

Microsoft Builds on ‘Skills For Jobs Programme’

Building on the success of its Global Skills Initiative, Microsoft has launched the next step in its skilling work, introducing the Skills for Jobs Learning Pathways. Since the Global Skills Initiative was launched in June 2020, Microsoft said it has...

The Nigerian Stockbrokers: Time For Renaissance

"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization. the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity." - Jacques Ellul Renaissance denotes rebirth and...

‘Payments, Commerce, Logistics, Critical For Inclusive Digital Transformation’

Flutterwave’s CEO, Olugbenga Agboola, has said, “The three major pillars that can help Africans effectively leverage digital transformation for inclusive and sustainable development are payment, commerce and logistics. These pillars support the cross-border movement of money, people, goods...

FG Trains 415 Women, Youths In ICT, Agric In Niger Delta

The federal government has empowered 415 Niger Delta youths and women in agriculture, information communication technology, and entrepreneurship. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Umana Umana, disclosed this at the graduation ceremony of the trainees of an empowerment programme in...

We’re Partnering With 15 Firms On Key Energy Projects – NCDMB

The Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said it is working arm in arm partnered with 15 firms in a push that will help set up key energy infrastructures covering modular refining, gas processing, gas distribution, power generation,...

Agric Imports Rise To N512.91bn In Q3 2022

The value of total imports of agricultural goods in Q3 2022 rose to N512.91 billion or 10.44 percent compared with the value recorded in the preceding period of Q2 2022 (N464.45 billion). It also showed an increase by 7...