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Dangote Cement's half-year profit slightly higher despite record revenue

Nigeria, July 26 -- Nigeria's biggest company by market value, Dangote Cement, attained only a single-digit rise in net profit for the year's first half, a performance at variance with that of its tur... Read More


FCMB Group's half-year profit jumps 68% after higher lending rates boost revenue

Nigeria, July 25 -- FCMB Group made capital out of the three upward reviews of the benchmark interest rate by monetary authorities in Nigeria between January and June. The development set the tone fo... Read More


Otedola rallies support for Dangote amid faceoff with authorities

Nigeria, July 24 -- The chair of FBN Holdings and majority owner of Geregu Power, Femi Otedola, has joined the circle of prominent Nigerians mustering support for Africa's most affluent man Aliko Dang... Read More


EXCLUSIVE: Aliko Dangote offers to sell 650,000 bpd oil refinery to NNPC

Nigeria, July 22 -- Africa's wealthiest man Aliko Dangote said he is willing to give up ownership of his multibillion-dollar oil refinery to the state-owned energy company NNPC Limited. The billionai... Read More


United Capital, Veritas Kapital Assurance, UBA top stock pick this week

Nigeria, July 22 -- Barely six months gone, the year has been strongly on the side of stocks, with Nigerian equities having gained 34 per cent to date, led by the NGX Industrial Goods Index. That sec... Read More


Nigerian govt to impose windfall tax on banks

Nigeria, July 18 -- The Nigerian government is taking aim at lenders by introducing windfall tax on banks' foreign currency revaluation gains, hoping to use the proceeds to part-finance its spending p... Read More


Dangote Refinery set for petrol sales start after ending rift with oil suppliers

Nigeria, July 15 -- Dangote Refinery is upbeat its 650,000 barrel-per-day capacity crude processing plant will commence sales to fuel marketers in August. The development follows the intervention of ... Read More


P&ID loses appeal to upturn London Court's costs award favouring Nigeria

Nigeria, July 13 -- An English court has rejected an appeal by Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), a company owned by two Cayman Island-based entities, to dismiss an earlier ruling about the cu... Read More


UPDATED: P&ID loses bids to upturn Court judgement favouring Nigeria

Nigeria, July 13 -- An English Court of Appeal has rejected a move by Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), a company owned by two Cayman Island-based entities, to set aside a previous judgement ... Read More


Geregu Power's half-year profit up 148% on back of increased energy sales

Nigeria, July 12 -- Geregu Power turned in 148.5 per cent more in net profit for the first half of the year compared to the same period of last year. The company's position was impacted by increased ... Read More