Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says his government will create more than 200,000 affordable mortgages over five years and introduce rent-to-own options for low-income housing to address a massive shortage in Africa’s most populous nation. Jonathan outlined the plans in a New Year’s Day address. Nigerian banks currently hold only 20,000 […]
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In post-Lehman clean-up, top banker prosecutions stumble
Will top bankers’ behavior ever land them in jail? Or are bad business decisions even a crime at all? Five years on from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the debate over how to hold senior bank bosses to account for failures is far from over, but legal sanctions for top […]
CBN guarantees N25bn agric loans through NIRSAL
The Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, introduced July last year, has guaranteed N25bn of agricultural loans, latest data from the Central Bank of Nigeria has shown. This has effectively lifted lending to the sector to four per cent of banks’ total loans, from the average of 1.5 […]
