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Nigerian Naira Heads for Two-Week Low as Oil Price Retreats

Nigeria’s naira depreciated for a third day, heading for the lowest in two weeks as oil, the nation’s key export, retreated and prompted a slide in the external reserves of Africa’s biggest oil producer. The currency of sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy slid 0.1 percent to 158.10 per dollar by 11:31 […]

Nigeria’s Banking Reform above the Curve

When the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) embarked on the banking reform under the extant Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, some stakeholders raised questions about the genuine and intuitive intentions of the reform agenda.  Suffice to note that this group of stakeholders had no fundamental understanding of the breadth and […]

NDIC Pays N90bn to Depositors of Failed Banks

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation has paid N90.13 billion to depositors of the 48 deposit money banks in-liquidation in the country as at December 31, 2012. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim disclosed this Friday in Benin City, Edo State, during an address he delivered on […]