House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Wednesday tactically stood down further consideration of the request by President Goodluck Jonathan for an additional N161,617,364,911 to fund the fuel subsidy scheme.
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The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday said it would transform the Nigerian Capital Market to gateway of African Capital Markets. Mr Oscar Onyema, the Chief Executive Officer of the Exchange said this in Lagos at the 11TH Annual National Competition for secondary and tertiary institutions and Awards sponsored by the Exchange.
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday arrested Aminu Lamido, the eldest son of the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido over money laundering allegations.
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Shareholders of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc have approved the internal restructuring and reorganisation of the capital of the bank and its members in compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s regulation on the Scope of Banking Activities and Ancillary Matters, which repealed the universal banking model under which Nigerian banks hitherto operated.
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Nigeria's Excess Crude Account (ECA) has accrued to $9.66 billion, just some $400 million away from the federal government's $10 billion target by the end of the year. Announcing the figure after the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting yesterday in Abuja, Jonah Otunla, the Accountant General of the Federation said the Account has done well so far and that government is on the way to hitting the $10 billion mark.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte won a closely contested election as voters handed pro-European parties a sweeping victory, shunning the radical fringes and dispelling concerns that eurosceptics could gain sway in a core euro zone country.
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Glo Ghana has acquired two million subscribers in Ghana since it commenced commercial operations in May this year. With this development, Glo Mobile Ghana now has over eight per cent of the market share, a feat that has been described as phenomenal and unprecedented in the country.
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Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is battling to reform one of the world’s most corrupt nations without support from the shadowy “godfathers” who wield power from behind the scenes.
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Nigerians are a peculiar breed. This shows up everywhere. In a football match with another country on our home ground, Nigerians would start off encouraging their team; but as soon as the Nigerian team falls into goal deficit, Nigerians would switch their support to the visiting team and, depending on their level of disappointment, they might begin to haul stones at the Nigerian players.
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My interest today on the new N5,000 currency note about to be issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has nothing to do with the controversies of whether it should be issued or not. From all indications it is already a done deal.
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