Skilled Graduates Required to Boost Nigeria's Financial Sector The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, has highlighted the need to address the shortage of skilled professionals in finance-related disciplines across Nigerian universities. According to a press statement by the CBN on Sunday, Cardoso...

N’assembly Proposes 5% Excise Duty on Telecoms, Others The national assembly has proposed a five percent excise duty on telecommunications services, gaming, betting, and lottery activities. On July 6, 2023, President Bola Tinubu signed four executive orders, including the suspension of the 5 percent excise tax...

Grid Collapse: TCN Promises Backup System to End Blackouts The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has promised a backup or buffer system to ensure that Nigerians won’t be thrown into blackout whenever the national grid collapses. TCN Managing Director, Sule Abdulaziz, stated this Channels Television’s Sunday...

Customs Revenue Increases by 33% in Nine Months The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it collected N4.28tn as revenue between January and September 2024. The NCS, in a document said the N4.28tn represents a 33 per cent increase compared to the N3.21tn the service collected...

Oil Sector Draws $5m Foreign Investment in Q2 Efforts of the government to bring in investors to Nigeria’s oil and gas sector appear not to have yielded the desired result as the sector only attracted $5m foreign investment in the second quarter of the year,...

MWFAAN Engages Presidential Aide Over Legacy Conference In effort to galvanize stakeholders for her forthcoming Legacy Conference, the Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Association of Nigeria (MWFAAN) paid a courtesy visit to Rinsola Abiola, Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Citizenship and Leadership. The...