by Rafiyat Sadiq After months of political unrest and tension in Rivers State, Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, have announced a truce, declaring that peace has finally returned to the state. The resolution followed a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday night, where both …
Sunday Michael Ogwu A new directive from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has triggered anxiety across Nigeria’s capital markets, as operators scramble to understand the scope and implications of newly imposed tenure limits for directors of Capital Market Operators (CMOs). In a circular released last Friday, the SEC announced that directors of CMOs …
Ghana is losing billions of dollars in revenue annually to smuggling from its booming artisanal gold mining sector with much of the gold flowing to the United Arab Emirates, according to a report by nonprofit Swissaid. The report found a staggering 229 metric ton trade gap, equivalent to $11.4 billion, between Ghana's gold exports and …
