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NCDMB to reposition NCIF for higher impact
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has tasked the custodians of the Nigerian Content Intervention (NCI) Fund and the parent Nigerian Content Development Fund (NCDF), to strive for greater efficiency and impact of the fund in…
Standard Chartered accused of wheeling fund for terrorists
A British bank, Standard Chartered, which had escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars of transactions for funders of terrorist groups, US court papers allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s largest banks, avoided prosecution by the…
African corporate community shaken by Wigwe’s death
Sopuruchi Onwuka The death of one of Africa’s finest bankers and business enabler, Herbert Wigwe, has shaken the continent where access to finance has become one of the biggest challenges to building viable businesses. The development comes as American authorities…
Money market awaits signals as CBN’s MPC holds 1st meeting
Sopuruchi Onwuka Players in the Nigerian financial markets are in full attention as the new administration of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) convenes its first monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting at the end of February to roll out new…
FG welcomes back bureaux de change into forex market
Sopuruchi Onwuka The federal government now allows unofficial foreign-exchange trading back into market in a measure to narrow the gap with the official rate the Naira. And the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has given the Association of Bureaux…
Oil women seek new financing windows
Sopuruchi Onwuka Dearth of capital and its sourcing to fund business initiatives topped the list of challenges encountered by women entrepreneurs in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian economy. Female stakeholders, the non-governmental Women In Energy Network (WIEN)…
NCDMB’s NCIF supports local businesses with N259 bn
Lays funding model forAfrican energy industry Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Intervention Fund (NCIF) of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has delivered commitment of $324 million or N38.4 billion to significant 69 local businesses in the country….
BRICS expansion draws new market pattern, away from energy transition
Sopuruchi Onwuka The selection of new members into the bloc of developing countries hosted in BRICS will not only cause name change in the group whose name is an acronym of the five founding members: Brazil, Russia, India, China and…
San Leon shops $5m for indirect investment in OML 18
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports San Leon Energy announced a further investment of $5.0 million in Energy Link Infrastructure (Malta) Limited (ELI), which owns the new pipeline and the floating storage and offloading vessel for the OML 18 oil and…
Tinubu’s forex blunder sends inflation soaring
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Naira fell to a new low on Friday as new gaps begin to emerge between official rates and the parallel market despite despite the executive fiat by the new administration of Alhaji Bola Tinubu to enforce a…
