Manufacturers Spend N1.34tn on Alternative Power

Rising Costs, Insecurity Threatens Nigerian Manufacturing – MAN

Nigerian factory floors are facing an existential crisis as a combination of multi-layered taxation, currency volatility, and insecurity cripples industrial operations. The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria issued a stark warning detailing the rapid erosion of corporate survival margins across the country’s major industrial hubs. Factory owners report that production volumes have dropped significantly over the…

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Regulator Imposes N100 Million Foreign Exchange Fines

Capital Importation Surges to $3.37bn – CBN

Foreign capital importation into Nigeria jumped by 182 per cent month-on-month to reach $3.37bn in January. The Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed the sharp increase in its latest monthly economic report, contrasting the data with the $1.25bn recorded last December. Aggressive monetary tightening and attractive local yields motivated the sudden influx of international cash. However,…

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NNPC’s Five Point Defence Against Dangote Refinery

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss the Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s bid to halt fuel importation, warning that the refinery’s products are sold at “significantly high and fluctuating market prices” and that granting its requests could hand it monopoly control of Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector….

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Ebola Cases Top 900 in Conflict-Ridden DR Congo

Ebola Cases Top 900 in Conflict-Ridden DR Congo

A rapidly accelerating Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has crossed an alarming threshold, with suspected infections now exceeding nine hundred. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that surveillance teams have identified nine hundred and four suspected cases across the country. The official tally includes one hundred and one laboratory-confirmed infections….

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