Mindfulness and meditation can ease chronic pain, anxiety and depression. Now some money experts say awareness tools such as these can help you avoid impulse purchases and create a spending plan that reflects your values. There’s no single definition of mindfulness, but Leah Weiss, who teaches leading with mindfulness and compassion at Stanford University’s Graduate […]
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The new Development Effectiveness Review on Agriculture business, showed that the African Development Bank (AfDB) has deployed $5.5 billion in investments in the agriculture sector over five years to 2015, According to the review, the bank trained three million people on better farming practices, put 20,000 food marketing and storage into use, constructed four thousand […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented an annual budget of N7.298 trillion for the 2017 fiscal year. The presentation made at a joint session of the National Assembly has Power, Works and Housing receiving the lion share of N529 billion. Christened budget of budget of recovery and growth, Buahri proposed that the implementation of the […]
Read More Analysts in the country’s capital market foresee a stable equities and fixed income markets this week given last week’s market activities. The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index would have closed lower last week but for the surge in Nigerian Breweries Plc’s stocks late in Friday’s session. Analysts at Vetiva Capital Management Limited said, “We believe […]
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Stake holders in the import sector have lamented the steady decline in revenue and business that has followed various government policies, to the tune of about N600 billion. The Nigerian Customs Service, terminal agencies, Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), Licensed Customs Agents have all cried for the review of these policies. The two […]
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An entrepreneur is defined as someone who conceives an idea and turns it to a profitable business that leads to financial independence. Almost everybody in Nigeria is an entrepreneur today. However, it seems that most fade off as fast as they spring up. Why is this so? This may be due to salient issues that […]
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For Nigerians with excess cash looking for where to invest can be nightmare. It’s a bit ironic considering that those without cash typically have a gazillion ideas of what they can do with cash if they have it. Recently, we have been getting calls from some of our followers asking us about what sort of […]
Read More Nigeria is right about neck-deep in a pit of recession and strangled in a hard to get out of stagflation. Interest rates are on the rise, jobs are being lost and the Federal government is broke. It’s a tough ordeal for everyone including policy makers and the government. Even the rich are feeling the heat […]
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The economy is in recession, the government admitted yesterday. Udoma Udo Udoma, Budget and National Planning Minister said two negative quarters growth “technically” amount to recession. He was aware of only the negative growth in the first quarter, but he suspected the yet to be received second quarter report would also be negative. Udoma said while […]
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Nigerians yesterday got a piece of bad news – the economy is in recession. But, there is no need to panic because it will be short, according to Finance Minister Mrs. Kemi Adeosun. She broke the depressing news to Senators in plenary while briefing them on measures adopted to get the economy out of the woods. […]
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IN A PRESS RELEASE STATEMENT N-Power is a job creation and empowerment initiative of the Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria. N-Power is designed to help young Nigerians acquire and develop life-long skills to become solution providers in their communities and to become players in the domestic and global markets. Through N-Power, […]
Read More With rising unemployment and inflation accompanied by falling naira and Gross Domestic Product, the Nigerian economy has become worse off one year into the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, OYETUNJI ABIOYE writes, Punchng. President Muhammadu Buhari is known to be a man of action, thanks to the aggressive reforms that characterised his initial rule of Nigeria […]
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