Nigeria’s oldest commercial bank, First Bank NIgeria Limited, is hosting a global investor call on Wednesday for a group of high networth individuals and small group of investors to discuss

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reversed Nigeria’s 2020 economic growth from its earlier projected -5.4 per cent to -4.3 per cent. In its latest Economic Outlook released on Tuesday, the

Global stocks hit five-week highs on Monday led by China’s post-holiday surge as investors bet on a steady recovery for the world’s no. 2 economy, but worries about rising COVID-19

Contrary to reports circulating on Nigeria’s social media that the bank account of Flutterwave – a fintech payment platform used to receive donations for the ongoing protests against police brutality

Facebook has announced it will remove all content on its platform that “denies or distorts the Holocaust.”  The company says this expansion of its hate speech policies is a response

Asian stocks are set to rise on Tuesday as a renewed tech rally and fresh optimism that Washington would deliver a coronavirus relief package helped lift global equity markets. Shares

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MultiChoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe, has said that Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) billing model is not technically and commercially feasible in the pay television industry. Ugbe

Emerging market sovereigns will suffer long-lasting revenue losses due to the coronavirus crisis, with governments’ ability to implement and enforce effective revenue-raising measures set to be a key credit driver

Americans Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have won the Nobel Prize in economics for “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” The winners were announced

British Airways says it will be replacing Chief Executive Officer Alex Cruz. This comes just weeks after fellow Spaniard Luis Gallego took over as head of parent company IAG SA.

Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics is set to release Consumer Price Index and inflation data for September on Thursday, October 15. Last month, Africa’s most populous country’s inflation rate climbed

US stocks rose on Friday and the S&P 500 was on track for a second straight week of gains as optimism over more federal fiscal aid gathered momentum. US House

AfDB interested in transformational agro value chain industrialization projects which add value to competitively-produced commodities in Africa – VP Quaynor At a webinar held Thursday by the Nordic-African Business Association

In a notice posted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, said it

The World Bank says it expects economic activity in Sub-Saharan African countries  to decline by 3.3% in 2020, the region’s first recession in 25 years.  The lender says the COVID-19

The number of American’s filing for initial unemployment claims rose by 840,000 in the week ended 3 October, largely in line with expectations. That’s well below the pandemic peak, but

British low-cost airline, EasyJet says it will make a loss of about £800million ($1.033billion) in 2020. This is the first time EasyJet will publish such a loss in over two decades since it

In a notice posted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange website, Access Bank says it is informing the investing public that a meeting of Board of Directors of Nigeria’s largest bank

Netflix is facing a criminal charge in Texas over the allegedly “lewd” depiction of children in a film on its platform. The film, called ‘Cuties’, follows an 11-year-old Senegalese girl

Twenty-eight member low-income countries have received a six-month extension of debt service relief from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Countries in this category are Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros,