The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria has started collaborations that would increase the number of practitioners in the tax professional while beckoning on University of Lagos, Unilag, to add taxation into its degree programme curricula.

Shareholders of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) Plc, on Thursday unanimously endorsed the payment of a total dividend of N2.75 per share for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2018.

Many people find the entrepreneurial journey to be a lonely and stressful one, fraught with highs and lows, elated wins, and crushing losses. The crux of anxiety is uncertainty; entrepreneurs fear the future and worry about how they will cope. The absence of a regular paycheck, market fluctuations, and the inevitable risk-taking required to grow, only compounds this uncertainty.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, is today launching its 2019 Entrepreneurship Mentoring Programme, aimed at helping to curb the lingering high rate of unemployment in Nigeria.

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector offers more than 59 million jobs in Nigeria, the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) has said.

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru MINISTER of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, on Wednesday said that Nigeria has not found a formula that works, hence, it would not contemplate exiting from the subsidy regime. The Minister stated this when she briefed State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the […]

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the country’s inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in March was 0.06 per cent points lower than the rate recorded in February.

The Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, Aisha Abubakar, has said that the Nigerian creative industry has the fastest growth rate in the world.

IN the last three weeks, the  oppressive impact of the myriad charges on the transactions of every owner of a bank account in Nigeria, was the subject of discussion.

A BUSINESSMAN, Cajetan Chike Muonagolu, has been ordered to be remanded in prison custody by Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on a four-count charge bothering on dealing in adulterated and substandard engine oil. The court admitted Muonagolu to bail in the sum of N50 million and two sureties in the like sum. One of the sureties must be a civil/public servant not less than Grade Level 15 in the employment of the Federal or Lagos State Government while the other must be the defendant’s relation with landed property within the jurisdiction of the court.

Adebayo Adeleke is the former General Secretary of Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN). In this interview, he said that re-introduction of margin lending by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, is an error and will not be in the overall interest of the market.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, recently said it is continuing with the issuance of dividend warrant more than one year after closing the exercise to allow it sort out some outstanding issues. Shareholders who spoke to Financial Vanguard expressed a divergent opinion on the issue.

AGAINST the backdrop of the successful conduct of general elections in Nigeria, the Association of Assets Custodians of Nigeria, AACN, plans to showcase the huge potentials in the Nigerian capital market to undecided international investors.

AS Fintech and investment into the space continues to gain traction around the globe, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, said it plans to explore new technologies including blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for capital raise.

By Peter Egwuatu The International Monetary Fund, IMF has called on governments of member countries to allow its central bank to be independent in order to enhance accountability of policy actions taken in the discharge of their mandate and responsibilities. The Managing Director, IMF Christine Lagarde   made this call in response to questions on […]