Refineries Record N5.4bn Deficit, As NNPC Lifts $407.15m Crude Amidst controversy over the state of the nation’s refineries the latest report of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has indicated that Nigeria’s three refineries guzzled a total of N5.86 billion in overhead expenses on zero...

Shippers Council Targets 80% Automation By June       The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) says it hopes to achieve 80 per cent automation of the entire seaport processes on or before the end of the first half of the year. The nation’s seaport economic regulator also vowed to...

Petrol Subsidy Rises To N500bn       With the Federal Government leaving the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) unchanged in the first five months of this year despite the increase in global oil prices, subsidy on the product is estimated to gulp N500bn in the...

Diaspora Remittances: ABCON Advocates Measures To Counter Cryptocurrencies       Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to introduce measures that will counter the advantages of cryptocurrencies exchanges as a channel for diaspora remittances. Making this call...

No Petrol Price Increase In May - NNPC       The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, on Monday announced that there would be no increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in May. NNPC has maintained an...

Foreign Reserves Gain $620m From Remittances     After gaining $620 million from diaspora remittances in two weeks, the foreign exchange reserves jumped to $35.026 billion, a data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown. The accretion, the highest in over a month, has been attributed...