The Lagos State government has taken a significant step towards promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls in the state. A nine-member committee has been established to domesticate the National Women’s Economic Empowerment Policy, which aims to improve access…
By Professor Kayode Soremekun As the Tinubu administration approaches the one year mark, it is important to effect a review of what has transpired in the last twelve months. At the level of sheer policy postures and pronouncements, much has…
In April 2024, the headline inflation rate rose to 33.69 percent, up from 33.20 percent in March 2024, marking an increase of 0.49 percent points according to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Comparing year-on-year data, the inflation rate in April 2024…
By Haitham Al-Ghais, OPEC Secretary General Since assuming the office of OPEC Secretary General almost two years ago, I have had the privilege of visiting every African OPEC Member Country, as well as several other African countries. Every visit has…
For years, the narrative has been the same — the economy withers and the common man cries out for reprieve, only to be met with an endless array of impediments. When it is time to intercede for the poor, Nigerians are…
…250,000 to benefit in first cohort By Sodiq Adelakun The Lagos State Government has announced a new innovation to partner with an international organisation to provide opportunities in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for one million youths in the state.…
The Federal Government has listed its April 2024 Savings Bonds worth N4.214 billion on the Nigerian Exchange Limited platform. This was disclosed in the market bulletin signed by Godstime Iwenekhai, Head, Issuers Regulation Department of NGX. According to the bulletin,…
By Sodiq Adelakun The Lagos State Government has announced plans to airlift 1,862 pilgrims for the 2024 Hajj, according to the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ibrahim Layode. Speaking during the 2024 Ministerial Press Briefing on Wednesday at Alausa, Ikeja, Layode…
The NGX All-Share Index declined by 0.13 percent to close at 97,343.42 basis points on Wednesday. This is as investors also lost N73.85bn making the stock market to close negatively, losing 130.56 basis points with a negative market breadth. The…
As part of its capacity building functions, Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE), has onboarded and inducted another 23 Commodities Brokers, the fourth edition in the series, to increase the number of professionals to specialise in various asset classes in…
