Category: Economics

Nigerian households are experiencing some of the fastest urbanisation rates in the world, as workersare flocking to expanding first- and second-tier cities across the country. This is creating a large...

Much as I appreciate what the media has done by publicising the speech delivered by Dr Oby Ezekwesili at the Inaugural Business Lecture of the Lagos Country Club, I am...

The National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) says it has remitted over N5 billion to the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF) in the past 10 years of its operation for execution...

ABUJA—The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, dissociated itself from the $25 million failed oil block bid deal by an Indian company, Oil and Natural Gas Corp-Mittal Energy Limited. Commenting...

Nigeria may have taken a sizeable number of Small and Medium size Entrepreneurs, SMEs to the just concluded ITU telecom World in Budapest, Hungary, to showcase the potential of the...

International transparency group, Global Witness, yester-day, stated that Nigeria, Angola, Republic of Congo and the Democra-tic Republic of Congo lost about $4 billion (N800 billion) in shady oil and mining...

Working in Nigeria is quite interesting and as well, very challenging. Public sector workers have to use their meagre salaries to fend for themselves, their immediate   and extended families. In...

Credit allocation by banks have shown that the bulk of their loans in the past two years went to oil and gas sector to the detriment of other sectors. The...