Businesses, Govts Count Losses To #EndSARS Protests       At the backdrop of the destructions of public and private properties and businesses in the wake of the #EndSARS protests, businesses have been counting their losses while economy experts have listed the immediate challenges the crises have thrown...

W/Bank Projects Oil Price Of $44 In 2021       The World Bank has said that oil prices won’t be rising much next year either, but would average $44 per barrel, saying that prices will not recover to pre-pandemic levels at least until 2022. In its semi-annual Commodity...

External Reserves Drop By $35.67bn         Nigeria’s external reserves, last week, fell for the fourth consecutive week to $35.67 billion even as the naira depreciated to N462 per dollar in the parallel market. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) shows that the reserves fell to...

Naira Gains N8 As Equities Make N778bn       The naira appreciated by N8 in the last one week at the parallel market and the equities market recorded major gains of N777.9 billion as oil prices picked up. The All Share Index (ASI) grew by N778 billion to...

Banks are now looking for customers to buy the surplus greenback currently in their vaults, following the recent interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the interbank market. In a bid to close the gap between the interbank and parallel market rates, the...

The Nigerian banking sector’s profit fell by 28.4 per cent in the 2015 financial year, the just released Afrinvest 2016 Banking Sector Report showed. The report, released in Lagos on Wednesday, indicated that foreign exchange volatility and lower oil price led to a major decline...