Business & Economy

Village Banking is designed to reach the poorest of the working poor.  CBN will work closely with the Micro finance Banks to help them build their businesses so that they can earn more, …

They analysts always predicted it and I always wondered who would get the blame for crude oil prices reaching the much-dreaded yet expected $100 price for a barrel…

November 29, at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, turned out to be a unique day in the annals of international diplomacy…

Various reports indicate that Nigeria would be among the leading world economies by 2050 and already we have witnessed the effects under less than a decade of democracy and a …

Various reports indicate that Nigeria would be among the leading world economies by 2050 and already we have witnessed the effects under less than a decade of democracy and a …

Unfortunately not many Nigerians believe the economic conditions are much better now than they were before Obasanjo’s emergence in the political scene in 1999…

No bank or nation really stands alone. So whenever a bank fails, there is concern that it may pull other banks down with it or reduce the confidence so essential …

Nigerians and even foreigners have often said that with the resources which God has bestowed on our country, Nigerians have no reason to suffer-in the midst of plenty…

At the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, London, Oceanic Bank was adjudged the Nigerian Bank of the Year for the second year running…

Until having a good meal of chicken is not considered a luxury in the average Nigerian home, the Government can not claim to have succeeded in improving lives in Nigeria…

It is expedient and desirable for the good of the country to avoid unnecessary diverse views about the country’s economic policies at this time…

There are indications that Nigeria’s currency, the Naira, is favoured to be the ECOWAS common currency in 2009. Given the current rate of exchange between the Naira and the U.S. …

In every Sabo and near transit centers are men and families who will lose their means of livelihood if Soludo had succeeded in making the naira convertible and strengthened its …

The way the federal government bungled the planned redenomination of the national currency by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is about the clearest proof that President Yar’Adua has been …

Many pro-policy advocates were caught off-guard when the government officially announced that Soludo acted unilaterally without proper clearance from the seat of power, and therefore all actions on the proposed …

Unless there was willful attempt on the part of Mr. Soludo to undermine the President, bring disrepute to the country, cause mischief or attempt to injure the nation’s national interest, there …