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The Lagos State Government on Friday said residents of the state consume 1.8 million heads of cattle annually. This is according to the Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, who disclosed this during an interview on Channels…

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has only three dollar-billionaires, according to Forbes 2021 world billionaires list released on Tuesday. They are Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote group; Mike Adenuga, chairman of Globacom; and…

Worried by their inability to cope with the challenges of providing adequate services to the citizenry, transport operators across the country have urged the federal government to urgently disburse the N10 billion COVID-19 palliative fund…

MTN customers in Nigeria now have alternative electronic payment platforms to recharge their phones as the mobile network operator on Saturday announced that customers can recharge airtime through payment solutions platforms such as…

A feud between Nigerian banks and MTN left millions of subscribers unable to recharge their phones using the USSD services on Friday, after banks shut off the telecoms firm over fees charged for the service. MTN advised its subscribers…

Banks have notified customers that effective on Thursday (today), the old cheque leaflets will no longer be acceptable for clearing. They also urged the customers to get the new revised cheque standard leaflets introduced by the Central…

Nestlé Nigeria says it will engage 5,000 smallholder farmers for the supply of raw materials for its agro-business operations. The initiative, ‘developing inclusive grain value chains project’, is in partnership with IDH— The…

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) today said that bank customers are to begin paying N6.98 kobo per Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) transactions commencing today. The price…

Shoprite Group has announced its unaudited results for the 26 weeks to 27 December 2020 in which sale of merchandise increased by 4.7% to R83.4 billion while its trading profit increased by 18.3% to R4.7 billion. The Group confirms that…

Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, is expected to earn a dividend of N13.1bn for the financial year 2020 from his stake in Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc. Africa’s richest man is set to earn N1.50 per share on his direct and indirect…