All posts tagged "headline"

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  PFAs to invest pension funds in housing

  The Pension Fund Administrators have resolved to invest part of the contributed N4tn pension funds in housing and infrastructure. Already, they have forwarded the request to the regulator of the pension matters, the National Pension Commission, for...

  • Posted March 10, 2014
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  Government will bring down interest rate — Aganga

  he Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, in this interview with IFEANYI ONUBA, speaks on Nigeria’s investment climate, the Sovereign Wealth Fund and why he dumped the private sector for public service You had an impressive...

  • Posted March 10, 2014
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  NNPC stops Nigerian refineries from functioning – Senator

  The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum ( Upstream ), Senator Magnus Abe, has lamented the current fuel scarcity being experienced across the country and accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of deliberately grounding the activities of the...

  • Posted March 10, 2014
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  Scarcity of lower denomination naira persists

  While Nigerians continue to lament the scarcity of lower denomination naira in the system, Obinna Chima examines the health hazard posed by the dirty currencies largely in circulation in the economy From Lagos to Kano, Anambra, Rivers...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  FG, States, LGs may earn $5.8bn from sale of 10 NIPP plants

  A total of about $5,814,002,617 is expected to be earned by the federal, states and local governments of the federation as proceeds from the sale of 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) thermal generation plants when the...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  June 30 deadline for new number plates still stands – FRSC

  The FRSC Corps Marshal, Mr Osita Chidoka, on Friday said the agency’s June 30 deadline for all motorists to change over to new number plates would not change. The Corps Marshal told newsmen in Uyo, Akwa Ibom...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  Kaduna fuel marketers snub DPR authority

  Many petrol stations that did not have petrol days back, now have the product, but sold above the official pump price of N97 per litre. Saturday Vanguard’s investigation Wednesday revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation  (NNPC)...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  Mobile money awareness still low in Nigeria – Report

  A new survey by Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access has revealed that awareness and usage of mobile money in Nigeria still remains low. According to the study made available to our correspondnet, as of November 2013, only...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  IMF predicts growth for Nigeria’s economy

  Economic growth in Nigeria will accelerate this year, driven by sectors outside its dominant energy industry, while inflation will continue its downward path, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday. The economy is set to grow 7.3...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  Foreign investors reduce exposure to Nigerian risk — Report

  Foreigners stayed away from the Federal Government’s latest Treasury bill auction, the first since the suspension of the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, in a sign that investor confidence is yet to recover after...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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