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By Precious Akutamadu The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has unveiled a technology solution known as Product Authentication Mark (PAM), to curb influx of substandard products into the Nigerian market.The Director-General of SON, Malam Farouk Salim stated this at a sensitisation meeting with stakeholders in Port Harcourt. He said theContinue Reading

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By Emmanuella Anokam An economist, Dr Zainab Usman, has underscored the need to conceptualise economic diversification as a political project to address internal threats affecting the country’s survival. Usman, Director, Africa Programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. said this in Abuja at a symposium jointlyContinue Reading

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  L-R: TAJBank’s Managing Director, Hamid Joda, Brand Ambassador, Osita Iheme and the bank’s Executive Director, Mr. Sherif Idi; during the unveiling of the Bank’s Ambassadors and Influencers in Abuja   By Kadiri Abdulrahman TAJBank Limited, Nigeria’s foremost non-interest bank, has announced Nollywood acts, Osita Iheme (Pawpaw) and Saratu DasoContinue Reading

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By Kadiri Abdulrahman A financial expert, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, says the securitisation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) N22.7 trillion Ways and Means Advances will afford the Federal Government a ‘breather’ in terms of debt service burden. Uwaleke, a Professor of Capital Market at the Nasarawa State University, KeffiContinue Reading

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Patience Oniha, Director-General, DMO   By Kadiri Abdulrahman The Debt Management Office (DMO) says the securitisation of CBN’s N22.7 trillion “Ways and Means Advances’’ to the Federal Government will improve debt transparency. “Ways and Means Advances’’ allows the Federal Government to borrow short-term or emergency loans from the CBN toContinue Reading