OPINION/EDITORIAL

Nigeria GDP in Focus, Jackson Hole Looms

August 25, 2021/cmc connect By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM Confidence over the health of the largest economy in Africa will be influenced by the pending second-quarter GDP report for 2021. Markets expecting Nigeria’s economy to expand anywhere from 1% to 3%, representing a significant recovery from the […]

Anchor Borrowers’ Programme: A Lot More Needed

August 25, 2021/United Capital Research In Nov-2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) created the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) with goal of improving supply of key agricultural products to Agro-processors from Small Holder Farmers. It intended to achieve this by supplying farmers with adequate credit at single digit interest rates […]

The VAT Conversation: Time to Return Collection to States?

August 25, 2021/CSL Research Sales Tax (Value Added Tax) in Nigeria has assumed different forms over time, morphing from the brainchild of Decree 7 of the Ibrahim Babangida regime (now repealed) in 1986 to the Value Added Tax (VAT) act of 1993 with a significant adjustment till the Finance Act […]