Marketers Push For Petrol Price Hike Amid Deregulation   Oil marketers are clamouring that market indicators should determine the price movement of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly known as petrol, even if it means the price could potentially reach N700. This comes...

Investors Stake N99bn In Equities   Heavy transactions in the shares of United Bank for Africa (UBA) FCMB Group Plc and Japaul Oil lifted the volume of shares traded last week as 4.2 billion shares worth N99 billion were recorded in...

FG Spending: Money Supply Rise By 31.62% To N64.36trn   Following the growth in proceeds from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the three tiers of government, money supply or M2 surged to an unprecedented N64.36 trillion last month, marking...

Dollar Exchanges For N876/$ As Forex Shortage Worsens   The naira maintained its downward trend against the dollar as it traded for 876/$ at the parallel market on Sunday. Some Bureau de Change operators said the local currency had earlier exchanged to...

Renewed Rice Smuggling: Won't FG Heed RIPAN's Clarion Call? By Abdulsalam Mahmud   Again, rice smuggling. Will it ever end? Let me be categorical. When will the illegal importation of rice into Nigeria become history? It doesn't appear to be soon,...

Between Tinubu’s palliatives and the Nigerian ‘prodigal sons’ by Taiwo Akerele   I am extremely worried for the President of Nigeria, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I am worried because as his ardent follower since his days in NADECO and then later...