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Buhari orders end to Fuel hoarding, price hike

Ihesiulo Grace 24 December 2017 0

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday broke his silence on the lingering fuel scarcity in the country, saying he had directed regulators to end hoarding and price hike. He said he had also been assured by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that the situation will improve significantly

Business

LAHA set to enact law on 24-hr electricity

Ihesiulo Grace 22 December 2017 0

Lagos State House of Assembly(LAHA) is set to enact a law that would strengthening electricity generation and ensure 24 hours’ uninterrupted power supply in the state. A bill to this effect would soon be passed into law by the Lagos State House of Assembly. The bill, which went through public hearing on Wednesday, was described […]

Business

Factoring, credit insurance key for SMEs, regional integration

Ihesiulo Grace 20 November 2017 0

Innovative financial solutions like factoring and credit insurance offer keys to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa and can enhance regional integration, participants at an annual workshop on factoring held on Sal Island in Cape Verde, have heard. The one-day workshop was organized by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) on 9 […]

Business

Brokers urged to join forces in regulating regulators

Ihesiulo Grace 1 February 2017 0

A leading stock broker, Mazi Okechukwu Unegbu, Chief Executive Officer of Maxifund Nigeria Ltd has called on stockbrokers and newly inducted authorized dealing clerks to commit energy towards regulating the regulators in the course of their business. Unegbu who made the call recently in Lagos during the induction of newly qualified stock brokers said that […]

Health World

Alimentary discoveries produce a gut reaction among investors

Ihesiulo Grace 30 November 2016 0

The term “microbiome”, which describes the trillions of bacteria resident inside each of us, was not then in common use and UCC came up with the ungainly name of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre for its institute. The growth of what the Irish university now calls its APC Microbiome Institute illustrates the flowering of a field […]