Nigeria can bridge the infrastructural gap and also increase productivity by leveraging alternative sources of infrastructure financing such as the capital market.

Niger Insurance Plc  said that it paid  N1.4 billion claims in nine months from April to December 2019. Managing Director of the company, Mr. Edwin Igbiti, disclosed this at a press conference in Lagos, adding that other outstanding claims will be paid soonest.

A FORTNIGHT ago President Buhari submitted a request to the Senate to approve an external loan of US$29.96 billion (N10.7 trillion). It’s the second time such a request would be presented, the first being in 2016, when the Senate rejected it. As a career banker, it would be rather rich of me to sit here and be sanctimonious about borrowing. I am experienced enough to know one of the axioms of finance, which says it is smart to use other people’s money to get rich. But you must know what you are doing.

Experts in the financial sector of the economy have harped on the need to deepen pension penetration in the country to include the millions of people in the informal sector as well the youthful segment of the country.

In this interview with some journalists at the just concluded 9th Practical Nigerian Content Seminar in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote, spoke on various issues bordering on the growth of local content in Nigeria. Michael Eboh and Prince Okafor were there.

Nigeria’s medical brain drain has become an albatross.  Every day, at least one doctor or health worker leaves the shores of the country for greener pasture, yet the migrants struggle to complete foreign exams to get work placements abroad.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation has warned the Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, to sit up and face their responsibilities of taking electricity to consumers, noting that Nigerians would no longer tolerate further semantics from them.

The spate of gas cylinder explosion may be reduced to the barest minimum if the plan by the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, to collaborate with gas plant owners and other relevant stakeholders in order to re-qualify gas cylinders is anything to go by.  

Nigeria’s global gas flaring profile has dropped from 65 per cent to 25 per cent in the past 20 years because of increased processing and export of Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG.

By Amara Onwuasoanya Despite the lack of essential goods and services and employment opportunities, Nigerian youths continue to produce innovative and creative works in Nigeria’s rapidly growing music and film industries. Their amazing work has undoubtedly, contributed significantly to the Nigerian economy and has enhanced the country’s profile enormously across the world. However, the remarkable […]