Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, August 31, 2026
The Nigerian naira is opening the new trading week around the ₦1,300-per-dollar range, with the latest official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) data showing a closing rate of about ₦1,337.29/$1 at the end of Friday’s session.
Aviation minister raises alarm over state of Benin airport
MINISTER of Aviation, Mr Babatun-de Omotoba, weekend, raised alarm over the decaying state of facilities at Benin Airport.
‘Report on Constitution review ready soon’
Elder statesmen and politi-cians drawn from the 6 geo-political zones of the country, yesterday, announ-ced the near completion of the report on the review of the 1999 Constitution, announcing that the meeting of the group, the National Think-Tank in Gombe State, would finalise report on the Constitution.
Over 400 pipelines vandalised in N/Delta – PLAN
PORT HARCOURT —  OVER four hundred pipelines have been ruptured in the Niger Delta within the last two years. Chairman, Pipeline Profes-sionals’ Association of Nigeria (PLAN), Dr Joseph Dorgu, who made this known in Port Harcourt, said the vandalism was caused by those he termed third expressionist group, otherwise known as militants in the region.
Emulate Chevron, Uduaghan tasks oil firms
GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has charged oil multinationals operating in the Niger Delta to emulate Chevron Nigeria Limited in the quest for accelerated development of oil bearing communities.
Banks to slash workers’ pay
Indications emerged at the weekend that the 10 troubled banks will cut staff salaries across the board as a cost-saving measure to strengthen the survival path charted for them by the Central Bank, CBN.
The troubled banks are: Intercontinental Bank Plc, Oceanic Bank Plc, Unity Bank Plc, Bank PHB, Union Bank Plc, Afribank Plc, Finbank Plc, Wema Bank Plc, Spring Bank Plc and Equitorial Trust Bank.
