Financial Inclusion: TAJBank Opens 3 New Branches, NANTS Lauds Drive TAJBank, Nigeria’s leading non-interest bank, has opened three new branches in Abuja in furtherance of its sustained drives to deepen financial inclusion and offer stress-free innovative financial services to its growing customers nationwide. Speaking during the...

CBN Devalues Naira To N410.25/$1         The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has devalued the naira to N410.25 to dollar. The devaluation of the local currency was confirmed by the adoption of the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Rate (NAFEX), also known as the Investor and Exporter (I&E)...

Banks Credit To Economy Now N23.53trn       Banks’ credit to the economy rose to N23.53tn as of the end of March, latest figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria have shown. The CBN disclosed in its communiqué at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee on Tuesday...

Five Firms Account For 70% Of Nigeria’s Stock Market Value       Dangote Cement Plc and four other companies accounted for about 69.59 per cent of the market capitalisation of equities on the Nigerian Exchange Limited as of the end of April. The other companies are MTN Nigeria...

Air Transport’s Contribution To GDP Drops By 11.8% - NBS       Air transport’s contribution to Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2021 sunk by 11.78 per cent. A quarterly report published by the National Bureau of Statistics on Sunday showed that air transport under services...

Petrol Price Hike Inevitable, Says MAN       The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria says increase in the price of petrol is inevitable. The Director General of MAN, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, stated that regardless of the arguments around subsidy removal and the potential effect on the cost of production and...