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The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has announced plans to list two electricity distribution companies (DisCos) and one generation company (GenCo) on the Nigerian Stock Exchange through Initial Public Offers (IPOs). The agency’s director general, Ayodeji Gbeleyi, disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja yesterday. He explained that the move forms part of the […]

The Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) has disbursed N137 billion under its Export Development Fund to support non-oil exporters, creating about 12,000 direct jobs across the country. The bank’s managing director, Abba Bello, made this known in Abuja yesterday at a non-oil export facilitation engagement with the National Youth Wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC). […]

The Nigerian stock market yesterday sustained a bearish trend with a N623 billion loss, driven by selloffs in Lafarge Africa Plc and 47 others. The All Share Index (ASI) lost 984.55 points, representing a 0.70 per cent decline to close at 138,737.64 points. Market capitalisation shed N623 billion to close at N87.784 trillion. The downturn […]

The executive chairman of Origin Tech Group Nigeria, Prince Samuel Joseph Samuel, has admonished Nigerians to key into President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision of agricultural revolution captured in his administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda and as encapsulated in the Greener Hope Agricultural Productivity Programme (GHAPP) as a catalyst for unlocking the nation’s economic potentials. Samuel reiterated […]

The Naira-Yuan currency swap deal between the federal government of Nigeria and the Chinese government seems to be strengthening the nation’s currency recently, as confirmed by some Chinese traders. Experts who spoke to LEADERSHIP yesterday applauded this development. They said this deal impacts and has ensured stability, for example. They believe that, in the long […]

Lagos State government o has concluded plans to host Africa’s first-ever electric powerboat championship. It said the groundbreaking move will unlock the state’s enormous tourism potential. At a media parley in Lagos, the deputy chief of staff to the governor of Lagos State and the chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the E1 […]

As crisis rocks the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, the leadership of the Ife Federal Constituency of the party has passed a vote of no confidence in the deputy governor of the state, Prince Kola Adewusi, and a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Prof. Wale Oladiipo. But the state chapter of […]

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to empowering women through various programmes. Sanwo-Olu made this known at the second phase of the Micro Enterprise Support Initiative (MESI), which was organised by the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, in Y2025, at Blue Roof, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. The Governor, […]

The senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Sharafadeen Alli, has felicitated Vice President Kashim Shettima on his 59th birthday, describing him as a visionary leader whose commitment to national development continues to inspire millions of Nigerians. In a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Tuesday, Alli […]

Ondo State governor, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has approved N350 million as payment for the 2025 scholarship and bursary for students of the state origin in higher institutions of learningnationwide. The payment covers five scholarship categories: medical, law students and those with disabilities. The money approved by the governor for about 12,000 students is an improvement […]