Goddy Ikeh
PalmPay, a leading Africa-focused fintech operating Nigeria’s most used mobile wallet, and Jumia, Africa’s e-commerce giant, have announced a strategic partnership to enhance the digital payment ecosystem on the continent, starting with payment integrations and co-marketing efforts in Nigeria.
The price of OPEC basket of 12 crudes stood at $72.88 a barrel on Thursday, December 19, 2024, compared with $73.73 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
The Financial Services Industry led the activity chart this week on the floor of the Nigerian Exchange with 1.680 billion shares valued at N23.486 billion traded in 22,766 deals.
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Ecobank Group have embarked on a collaboration aimed at simplifying trade and compliance for businesses in Africa by integrating Ecobank’s Single Market Trade Hub and Afreximbank’s MANSA Digital Repository Platform.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has expressed sadness over the tragic incident at a children’s funfair on Wednesday in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state in southwestern Nigeria which claimed the lives of about 35 children.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that diaspora remittances processed through International Money Transfer Operators reached $4.22bn between January and October 2024.
A local oil and gas consortium, Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited, says it has received the ministerial consent to acquire $2.4 billion onshore assets of Shell Petroleum Development Company.
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, says that the $42.01 billion external reserves of Nigeria can finance importation of goods and services for over nine months.
In a landmark effort to elevate the tourism sector and build the capacity of Tourism officials and regulators to be able to identify and work with the visions and strategies that promote ECOWAS intra-regional tourism as well as the holistic understanding of policies, standards and instruments that shape Tourism.
TIKA establishes Regional Packaging, Production workshop for women manufacturers in Niger