The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said that the cargo throughput at the ports rose by 2.6 per cent to 19.8 million tonnes in the third quarter...
A recent World Bank report has said that for African countries to boost economic growth, there is need for them to create productive and well-paying jobs...
— $18.3bn paid out in 12 weeks A total of $18.3 billion left the shores of Nigeria to foreign lands through official channels in twelve...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday said that 60 per cent or N132 billion of the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development...
Federal government has disclosed that it will soon introduce a new textile policy that will stem the spate of dumping in Nigeria. This fact was disclosed...
The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for global growth this year as expansions in the U.S. and U.K. accelerate, and urged advanced economies to...
The Federal Government is planning to seek approval from the National Assembly (N/A) to increase a planned $100 million diaspora bond. The diaspora bond is to...
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, said that the 2014 budget envisaged a net collectible revenue of N7.50 trillion. Okonjo-Iweala, who is the Coordinating...
The performance of the manufacturing sector of the economy has defied the various fiscal incentives introduced by the Federal Government to boost the sector. In spite...
Federal Government has presented a budget proposal of N4.6 trillion for the 2014 fiscal year to the National Assembly. The proposed budget christened ‘budget for job...
Nigeria plans a huge jump in domestic sugar production over the next six years to cut dependence on imports and satisfy growing demand from a population...
The Senate on Wednesday approved the inclusion of Lagos State Development Policy Operation II (DPO) into the proposed pipeline projects under the 2012-2014 external borrowing plan....
African Trade Ministers agreed, on Tuesday, to support the package on the table at the ongoing World Trade Organisation’s Ninth Ministerial Conference (MC9), taking place in...
The ECOWAS Commission has decried the “global trade imbalance against Africa” as the continent’s share of the global trade stood at a paltry 3 per cent....
MANUFACTURERS in the country are licking their wounds over streams of loses as a result of built up finished inventories of goods in their warehouses they...