Osun Women Adopt Family Planning Due To Economic Hardship According to Ololade Abatan, the family planning coordinator at the Osun Ministry of Health, as a result of the present economic situation in the country, more women are now embracing family planning facilities with little mobilisation...

Reps Want Urgent Measures to Curb Fall In Naira Value The House of Representatives has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to urgently put in place a policy to check further devaluation of the naira to the United States dollar and other international legal...

IPOB: In The North, Igbo Businessmen Living In Palpable Fears     The campaign that the Igbos suffer high level hatred and discrimination in Nigeria notwithstanding, they are everywhere, in villages, cities and towns across the country and this has brought the nation’s economy firmly into their...

Ekiti Govt Threatens To Sanction N1.6bn CBN/BOI Loan Defaulters         Ekiti State Government has raised concern on the failure of beneficiaries to repay the about N1.6bn loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bank of Industry’s matching funds facility. The State Commissioner for Trade in...

FG Plans More Sukuk Bonds To Fund Projects       The Federal Government plans to upscale its alternative financing programme by issuing more Sukuk bonds to fund projects, building on the back of huge successes recorded on previous issuances. It had raised N362.6 billion in three previous issuances...

CBN Disbursed N300bn Agric Loans In Southern Nigeria – Emefiele       The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said on Tuesday that over N300bn had been disbursed to companies operating in southern part of Nigeria as part of its interventions in the agricultural sector. Emefiele...