BUSINESS

From Jude Dangwam, Jos     Chairman of the Plateau State Internal Revenue Service(PSIRS)/Board Mr. Arlat Dashe has described the shutting down of Coca-Cola Jos production Plant as a big loss to Plateau State.

The Board of Directors of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has announced the appointment of Patrick Akinwuntan as the Managing Director & Regional Executive – designate of Ecobank Nigeria, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.Prior to this appointment, Patrick was the Group Executive, Consumer Banking responsible for leading the Consumer Banking business across Ecobank’s global network of 40 countries, 36 of which are in Africa. As a seasoned banker with over 20 years of senior and executive …

Twitter, Inc. Thursday announced the appointments of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former 2-time Minister of Finance and Robert Zoellick, a former president of the World Bank, to Twitter’s Board of Directors as new independent directors, effective immediately.

  By Tony Obiechina  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that hawking of various denominations of the naira was an offence punishable under the CBN Act of 2005. To this end, the apex has cautioned persons who engage in this unwholesome act, particularly its staff members, to desist …

By David Odama Worried by the revelation loosing. over $10bn as a result of the alleged fraud being perpectuated in the nation's oil supervising organ and consequent upon the alleged high level of mismanagement of the revenue accrued to the federal government, the Senate, has resolved to investigate the Minister …

The Minister of state for aviation, Hadi Sirika, has unveiled the name and logo of Nigeria’s new national air carrier, Nigeria Air.

The Lagos headquarters of ExxonMobil has been shut down by the company’s workers’ unions over the sacking of 860 spy police without entitlement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers besieged the office of the oil company, protesting the sacking of workers, mainly Nigerians, on Tuesday in …

By Tony Obiechina    Nigeria has became the second country to announce plans to take a country pavilion at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) being organised by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Cairo from 11 to 17 December. Vice President, Prof Yomi Osinbajo who made the announcement during an engagement session …

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Muiz Banire as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

Sub-Saharan Africa has Nigeria to thank for better economic growth prospects next year. The region’s economy will probably expand 3.8 percent in 2019, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook update released Monday, reports Bloomberg.