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South Africa is pursuing lithium resources from Nigeria to facilitate the transition towards electric vehicles.
The Nigerian Government said the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI) will be rolled out on democracy day.
Nigeria to benefit from United Kingdom’s enhanced trade preferences in the new post-Brexit Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) programme.
This funding announcement follows Fez Delivery's acceptance as one of the only two logistics companies in Nigeria to have received investment from Techstars Toronto.
In its Q1 2022 Outlook, The State of African Energy, the African Energy Chamber investigates Africa’s oil and gas exploration landscape in 2022 and beyond
Nigerian company Kwik Delivery has successfully raised $ 1.7 million in equity from institutional and high net worth investors.
OPEC and OPEC+ member countries have finally decided to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels a day starting on May 1st, 2020 and until June 30th, 2020.
The curtailment of crude oil production by 9.7 million barrels promises an appropriate balancing of Nigeria’s 2020 budget that has been rebased at $30 per barrel.
Engr. Makoju, popularly called Mr. Cement, is bowing out after 45 years of transformational leadership in the cement industry. The Board has however approved the appointment of Mr. Michel Puchercos as his replacement as the Group CEO, effective 1st February 2020.
Equatorial Guinea continues to be proactive in encouraging foreign direct investment into the country
Federal government bonds put out for subscription on March 27 was oversubscribed in excess of 140bn by investors. This was revealed by the Debt Management Office (DMO) in a statement released on Wednesday. The DMO statement read: “The FGN Bond auction for March 2019 conducted on Wednesday at which N100bn bonds were offered was oversubscribed just as in the auctions…
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), the body responsible for incorporation of enterprises in Nigeria has revealed that it has registered 3,098,193 firms since inception. It said the figures are since the founding in 1990 to March 21, 2019. The number covers all categories of businesses in Part A, B and C. Acting Registrar of the Commission, Mrs Azinge Azuka disclosed…
Tony Elumelu, former Group Managing Director and CEO of United Bank for Africa (UBA) has urged president Muhammadu Buhari to improve electricity so entrepreneurship can thrive. He said this at the unveiling of 3, 050 successful applicants of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) on Friday, in Abuja. In the report by NAN, Elumelu said that entrepreneurship is the way to…
Nigeria will receive seventeen ship imports before the end, out of which, 15 of them are carrying fuel. This information was revealed by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, in its daily publications 'Shipping Position'. The report, according to NAN, further discloses that the ships are expected to arrive between March 17 and March 29 at the Lagos Apapa/Tin Can Island…
Nigeria will lose an estimated $6 billion in revenue to international oil companies, Shell and Eni, over the deal on the controversial oil block, widely known as Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 245. icirnigeria.org reported the new findings quoting a report by Global Witness called Take The Future. According to icir.org, leaked emails and confidential documents also showed that the oil…