Saturday, November 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 […]

For the fourth year in a row, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, inheritor of the L’Oréal wealth, remains the world’s richest woman in 2024. Meyers saw a big increase in her wealth over the last 12 months, with her net worth rising to $99.5 billion, the biggest gain among women on the 2024 list. However, […]

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