Monday, December 23

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The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, has said that the members of the Monetary Policy Committee would do whatever is necessary to get a handle on the country’s persistent inflation. The CBN’s hawkish stance on inflation had become obvious from the first MPC meeting held in February, when the committee raised […]

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Additional reports: Dare Olawin, Bankole Taiwo, Peter Dada, and Adeyinka Adedipe   The National Assembly and the 36 state assemblies of the federation as well as their agencies will spend about N724bn this year, an analysis of their 2024 budgets by The PUNCH has shown. Further findings also showed that the salaries and allowances for […]

Directors and key management personnel of Deposit Money Banks borrowed about N549bn from their financial institutions in five years. This is according to The PUNCH analysis of the banks’ annual reports filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited between 2019 and 2023. However, the banks’ loans and advances to some directors and key management personnel as […]

The Extraordinary General Meeting called by FBN Holdings to seek shareholders’ approval to raise N300bn has been canceled. A notice on Friday filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited said the special meeting has been cancelled with reasons not given. “The Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of FBN Holdings Pic (the “Company”), earlier scheduled to […]

An independent board is taking a look into the way Meta handled reports of deepfake pornography created by artificial intelligence on its platforms. Consisting of 40 members “from around the world that represent a diverse set of disciplines and backgrounds,” an “Oversight Board” was created by Meta to help it decide “what to take down, […]

Nigeria’s economy, which was Africa’s largest in 2022, is projected to slip to fourth place this year following a series of currency devaluations, according to forecasts from the International Monetary Fund in their World Economic Outlook reported by Bloomberg. The country’s gross domestic product for this year is estimated at $253 billion at current prices, placing it behind North African powerhouses Algeria at $267 billion, Egypt at $348 billion, and South Africa at $373 billion.

The Federal Government has asked for more investments and trade partnerships from member countries of the Group of Twenty-Four. This request was made during the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC by the Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, who was represented by the Director General of the […]

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