Making microfinance banks work for MSMEs, financial inclusion
The need to enhance the operations of microfinance banks to boost development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs and improve financial inclusion in the country dominated discussions at the just concluded annual conference of the National Association of Microfinance Banks, NAMB.
Corporate earnings growth rate slows down, dents economic recovery reports
Nigeria’s leading companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, have dented the picture of a recovering economy as painted by several macroeconomic performance indicators released by key financial and economy authorities.
4 policemen killed in crossfire with Kaduna ‘bandits’
Suspected kidnappers have killed four policemen in Jankasa village, Rigasa, Igabi local government area of Kaduna State.
Nigeria world’s leading breeder of poverty
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with hereditary ill that only the most vital [and fortunate] people are able to shake off. I mean poverty; the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases —Eugene O’Neill, 1885-1953.
Nigerians are tired of blame game, PDP replies APC
ABUJA— The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has again lashed out at Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, accusing the country’s main opposition party of engaging in “senseless noise making” instead of offering constructive criticisms to the government.
CSO drags Daura to EFCC over alleged foreign accounts
A civil society organization with focus on anti-graft campaigns, Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance, CACOBAG has dragged the former Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Lawal Daura before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over two foreign bank accounts allegedly linked to the spy master sacked last week by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the order of President Muhammadu Buhari.
