The Chairman of Nigerian Economic Summit Group, NESG, Mr. Kyari A. Bukar, who is also the Managing Director of Central Securities Clearing System, CSCS Plc in an interview with Vanguard spoke on a lot of issues affecting the economy, the upcoming 22nd NES as well as the activities of the Group and its contributions towards building a virile Nigerian economy.

There is a genuine desire to support the communities around us and this is the Dell I have come to love

Despite the unchanged Monetary Policy Rate, MPR by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN , investors in the Nigerian stock market, last week gained over N140 billion from their investment in shares as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE market capitalisation rose from N9.563 trillion at the beginning of trading week to close last Friday at N9.703 trillion.

THE Federal Government has pleaded with the United States to lift its ban on the importation of Nigeria’s crude, describing the action as antithetical to the flourish of trade and economic cooperation upon which Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, AGOA, was founded.

IN a recent ‘chat’ with members of the Newspaper Proprietors Association, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, spoke extensively on efforts to resolve the current challenges to best practice monetary and fiscal management; particularly salient in his narrative, was the alarming revelation that “in 11 years CBN allocated $66bn to BDCs!!”