Author: City BusinessNews

Edo Approves N700m For Modular Refinery Take-Off
August 27, 2018 No Responses

Edo Approves N700m For Modular Refinery Take-Off

The Edo State Governor is scheduled to accompany President Muhammadu Buhari on an investment tour in China following the federal government’s listing of several Edo State government’s projects which are backed by Chinese investors, on its itinerary.   The Chinese...
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Farmers Seek Effective Implementation, Monitoring Of CBN’s Credit Policy
August 27, 2018 No Responses

Farmers Seek Effective Implementation, Monitoring Of CBN’s Credit Policy

Farmers across the country have applauded the nine per cent interest rate credit policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the agriculture sector, saying it will help boost production if adequately implemented. Some of them who spoke with...
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Ecobank Adopts ‘President Macron’s Artist’
August 26, 2018 No Responses

Ecobank Adopts ‘President Macron’s Artist’

Ecobank Nigeria has adopted popular child artist, Kareem Waris.  Already, the bank has signed an agreement with Waris’ parents for educational support/grant and upkeep allowance spanning 20 years.  Waris Olamilekan Kareem, is the 11-year-old artist who sk...
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Nigeria To Hosts ITU Workshop On Internet Governance
August 26, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria To Hosts ITU Workshop On Internet Governance

Nigeria will host this year’s ​​​​​​​International Telecommunications Union (ITU) annual regional human capacity building workshop on “Strengthening capacities in Internet governance in Africa”​, according to Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Adminis...
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Volkswagen Sets Aside $4B For Digital Options, Software
August 26, 2018 No Responses

Volkswagen Sets Aside $4B For Digital Options, Software

Volkswagen will invest 3.5 billion euros ($4 billion) by 2025 to build digital businesses and products including a cloud computing-based platform to connect vehicles and customers to offer services such as car sharing. The German automaker explained that it wa...
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John McCain Dies At 81
August 26, 2018 No Responses

John McCain Dies At 81

Senator John McCain, the Vietnam war hero turned senator and presidential candidate, has died aged 81. Mr McCain died on Saturday surrounded by his family, according to a short statement released by his office. He was diagnosed with an aggressive...
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400 Women Benefit From Aisha Buhari’s Cash Transfer Initiative
August 25, 2018 No Responses

400 Women Benefit From Aisha Buhari’s Cash Transfer Initiative

Another 200 women, on Thursday, 24th August, 2018, benefitted from the Aisha Buhari Foundation’s Community-Based Cash Transfer Intervention in Katsina State.   This was a continuation to a similar event in Daura in which 200 women were assisted with cas...
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NIMASA ED, Bashir Jamoh, Unveils Book On Maritime Assets
August 25, 2018 No Responses

NIMASA ED, Bashir Jamoh, Unveils Book On Maritime Assets

The book titled: “Harnessing Nigeria’s Maritime Assets – Past, Present and Future authored by the Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Bashir Jamoh is to be launched on Tue...
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Photo News
August 25, 2018 No Responses

Photo News

L – R shows Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru, Chairman/Publisher, The Guardian Newspaper Limited and Mr. Abimbola Ogunbanjo, President, NSE during a Closing Gong Ceremony in commemora...
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Nigeria Lifts Forex Market With $543m, CNY 63m
August 25, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Lifts Forex Market With $543m, CNY 63m

In another major round of interventions, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday, August 23 and Friday, August 24, 2018, injected a total sum of $543.22 million and CNY 63.21 million into the inter-bank foreign exchange market. At the...
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Violent Waves: Seven Ships Grounded
August 25, 2018 No Responses

Violent Waves: Seven Ships Grounded

Seven ships are stranded outside the Kaohsiung Port in Taiwan having succumbed to heavy winds and violent waves caused by a strong storm that hit Taiwan.  All 88 crew members of the seven ships are reported to be safe, according to...
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Nigeria Unveils Agenda For Long-Term Credit To Agriculture, Manufacturing
August 24, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Unveils Agenda For Long-Term Credit To Agriculture, Manufacturing

To consolidate and sustain the nation’s economic recovery, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to increase the flow of credit to the real sector of the economy.   It will be recalled that the CBN Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at...
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British Airways, Air France To Stop Flights To Iran
August 24, 2018 No Responses

British Airways, Air France To Stop Flights To Iran

British Airways and Air France have announced that they will stop flying to Iran next month. Both airlines said that the route was “not commercially viable.” The reintroduction of US sanctions has caused a slump in the value of the...
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Oyo Sets Up Committee On Demolition Of Music House
August 24, 2018 No Responses

Oyo Sets Up Committee On Demolition Of Music House

Governor  Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has set up a committee to resolve the impasse over the demolition of Yinka Ayefele’s Music House in Ibadan. Ajimobi had set up the committee at a reconciliatory meeting with the popular musician in...
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