Day: May 15, 2024

Presidency, VIPs Now to Pay at Airport Tollgates After N10bn Loss

•Aviation sector gets approval to procure N4.2 billion aircraft recovery equipment •Says cybersecurity levy suspended for review  •FG to transform infrastructure, housing sectors •Targets N20trn pension fund for devt  •To provide 48-hour visa service for investors  •Urges labour not to derail power sector transformation plan, to look into electricity tariff hike The Federal Executive Council […]

Naira Weakens Further To N1,520/$ At NAFEM

Having depreciated to N1,478.11 to the dollar on Monday, the value of the naira continued its downward slide on Tuesday at the Nigeria Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM) and at the parallel market closing at N1,520.40 to the dollar at the official end of the market. https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?gdpr=0&us_privacy=1—&gpp_sid=-1&client=ca-pub-5228780540891921&output=html&h=280&adk=3908584181&adf=3002841736&w=758&abgtt=6&fwrn=4&fwrnh=100&lmt=1715803569&num_ads=1&rafmt=1&armr=3&sem=mc&pwprc=4671932670&ad_type=text_image&format=758×280&url=https%3A%2F%2Fleadership.ng%2Fnaira-weakens-further-to-n1520-at-nafem%2F&fwr=0&pra=3&rh=190&rw=757&rpe=1&resp_fmts=3&wgl=1&fa=27&uach=WyJXaW5kb3dzIiwiMTAuMC4wIiwieDg2IiwiIiwiMTI0LjAuNjM2Ny4yMDEiLG51bGwsMCxudWxsLCI2NCIsW1siQ2hyb21pdW0iLCIxMjQuMC42MzY3LjIwMSJdLFsiR29vZ2xlIENocm9tZSIsIjEyNC4wLjYzNjcuMjAxIl0sWyJOb3QtQS5CcmFuZCIsIjk5LjAuMC4wIl1dLDBd&dt=1715803569099&bpp=4&bdt=3889&idt=4&shv=r20240513&mjsv=m202405140101&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D6c725c482c8285cf%3AT%3D1703914601%3ART%3D1715756855%3AS%3DALNI_MZHhrLUgci-Yb8nm2gXt5raIIByAQ&gpic=UID%3D00000ce94cf8ca97%3AT%3D1703914601%3ART%3D1715756855%3AS%3DALNI_MaE-CmEPB17PLEq9KR8xJoZK5MioQ&eo_id_str=ID%3Da0f366dcf2959106%3AT%3D1707197502%3ART%3D1715756855%3AS%3DAA-Afjb4kc7miexLGlwddFvzS1YX&prev_fmts=0x0%2C248x600&nras=2&correlator=6948413745851&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=187424282.1703914599&ga_sid=1715803568&ga_hid=1056437759&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-720&u_his=9&u_h=768&u_w=1366&u_ah=728&u_aw=1366&u_cd=24&u_sd=1&dmc=8&adx=195&ady=1062&biw=1349&bih=607&scr_x=0&scr_y=128&eid=44759875%2C44759926%2C44759837%2C31083636%2C31083639%2C42532523%2C44795921%2C95331983%2C31083689%2C95331711%2C95332415%2C31078663%2C31078665%2C31078668%2C31078670&oid=2&pvsid=1106079934953994&tmod=2014200869&uas=3&nvt=1&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fleadership.ng%2F&fc=1408&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1366%2C0%2C1366%2C728%2C1366%2C607&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7Cs%7C&abl=NS&fu=128&bc=31&bz=1&td=1&psd=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLDNd&nt=1&ifi=3&uci=a!3&btvi=2&fsb=1&dtd=472 Value of the naira also depreciated to N1,501 to […]

Minimum wage: Labour insists on May 31 deadline as talks resume today

After several weeks of hiatus, the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government will finally meet today (Wednesday), May 15, 2024, sources familiar with the matter confirmed the development to our correspondent in Abuja on Monday. The Labour unions also stood their ground on their proposal of N615,000 minimum wage while insisting on May […]

Tariff Protest: Don’t Derail Our Plan For Electricity Sector, FG Begs Labour

The Federal Government has asked the organised Labour not to derail its transformation plan for the electricity sector. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) had picketed offices of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Distribution Companies nationwide over the hike in electricity tariff. The unions had described the upward review, […]

Banks’ earnings more than triple to N1.1trn on CBN’s rate hikes

The earnings of some of Nigeria’s biggest banks more than tripled in the first three months of 2024 as a result of the record hike in the benchmark interest rate by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This development marks a turnaround from when the devaluation of the naira led to huge foreign exchange gains […]

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