When the newly appointed Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru recently met with various security chiefs and agencies, he knew exactly that without the cooperation of these agencies, the oil exploration and exploitation in the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Engr Elias Mbam as Chairman, Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) after his first tenure that ended in November 2015. The announcement was made through a statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government...

No other period is the advice of the Nigerian Presidential Aide on economic matters crucial than this period of dwindling economy due to low prices of crude oil in the international market. The Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters in the office of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of his Special Adviser on Planning, Mr. Ben Akabueze as the new Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation. Pastor Ben Akabueze, a Pastor of RCCG, was Lagos Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget during the...

Dr. Vincent Onome Akpotaire joined the services of the Bureau for Public Enterprises in 2007. The lawyer, who is also an investment expert and administrator, was first deployed to the Department of Post Privatisation and Monitoring (PPM) of the agency.   Three years later, the dogged...

The management of Economic Confidential has approved the appointment of award-winning business journalist Ewache John Ajefu as new Acting Editor of the factual and authoritative Nigeria's Economic Magazine. Ajefu, the immediate past Head of Business and Economy with FirstAfricaNews, replaces Sanya Adejokun who left the...