The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington’s grip on the job and leaving developing...
Shell Plc has said that oil spills at its facilities in Nigeria soared last year, as it faces lawsuits in the UK regarding earlier spills. Shell...
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) says Nigeria’s creative industry is capable of contributing more than N1 trillion annually to the nation’s economy. The Director-General of the...
OPEC left its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2012 unchanged for a second month, saying there were signs that a slowdown in global economic...
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South Africa’s Defence Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu on Wednesday said more than 1,000 people were taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean in 2010. Sisulu, who...
The market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday increased by N27 billion in spite of the major losses incurred by blue chip equities....
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The Nigerian Government has said that it would continue to fight and protect Nigerian traveling publics from the exploitation of foreign airlines operating in the country....
Nigeria’s inter-bank lending rates fell this week to an average of 14.41 per cent, down from 15.33 per cent last week, as matured Treasury bill funds...
India, China, Nigeria, Indonesia and the United States are projected to lead the world’s growth in urban populations during the next four decades, sparking challenges in...
There is an economic dreamer out there. His name is Goldman Sachs. In 2004, he dreamt that Nigeria will emerge one of the twenty largest economies...
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is to introduce new electricity tariff on June 1, its Chairman, Dr Sam Amadi, has said. Amadi, who disclosed this...
Some quoted companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has attributed the delay in submitting their 2011 annual accounts to a court judgment voiding financial statements...
By Omoh Gabriel African Union finance leaders yesterday unanimously endorsed Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy to lead the World Bank and urged an open merit-based...