STAKEHOLDERS in the nation’s financial sector have formed a body to help government and telecommunications operators develop industry standards and modalities for the advancement of mobile financial services in the country.

The move was sequel...

PETROLEUM Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has hinged the competitiveness of the downstream sector in Nigeria to the implementation of the proposed reforms as contained in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

The Executive Secretary of...

IF Nigeria’s broadband deployment strategy must materialise, government at all levels of governance have a major role to play, the National Broadband Committee has said.

According to them, governments at various levels have critical roles to...

A FRESH move may have commenced to revive the nation’s comatose automobile manufacturing sub-sector, courtesy of renewed interests by foreign investors in the country.

Indeed, some of the investors have already made their plans known to the...

FINANCIAL sector’s stakeholders have prescribed the promotion of effective credit reporting and financial inclusion, to ensure fool proof risk management strategy in banks.

The stakeholders made the assertion in their separate presentations at...

THE Ministry of Power has opted to shop for an intervention fund to revamp the country’s ailing power plants before the final handover to the new owners in July.

The fund raising strategy was informed by the fact that the country’s power...

DESPITE the downturn in telecommunications services in the country, the nation’s connected telephone lines grew by 2, 049, 470 in March 2013.

Indeed, the country’s connected lines as at February 2013 was 159, 879,295 but went up to 161, 928...

THE Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has decried the persistent high unemployment level in the country, which it described as inimical to the nation’s economic growth and development.

The President of the institute, John Femi...

Ottawa to review visa processing time

NIGERIA and Canada have resolved to strengthen trade and investment ties  by leveraging on areas of comparative advantage.

The two countries also agreed on strategies to double the volume of trade...

Stakeholders support sale of 10  plants

APPARENTLY savouring from the expected goodies of the transformation process, the Federal Government Tuesday said there was no going back on the ongoing privatisation of the power sector.

This...

CHEVRON Corporation has unveiled its plans to float about 50 projects costing over $250 million each, across the world, in the next five years.

The Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President for Upstream and Gas, George Kirkland, at the yearly...

INDICATIONS have emerged that the House of Representatives and the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) are set to open an investigation into allegation of wrongful withholding of customers monies through malfunctioning Automated Teller Machines...

JUSTICE Adeniyi Adebajo of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere on Monday ruled that the office of the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice was liable for the illegal detention of a trader, Isiaka Mohammed, by the police in January...

THE initial drive by underwriting firms in Nigeria to expand and exploit opportunities in the African insurance market may  have been truncated  due to assessed  unfriendly business environment which has been prompting some of the...