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Naira Appreciates Market-Wide as CBN Funds FX Payments

The Nigerian naira experienced a market-wide rally on Tuesday as foreign transactions and import payments eased. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been funding rising demand for US dollars amidst a sustained decline in FX inflows. FX data published today showed that the naira strengthened by 0.45% to ₦1,449.99/$ …

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SIFAX Group Pledges Support for Port Police Command   

SIFAX Group and the Port Authority Police (Western) Command have resolved to work together to strengthen security at the Lagos ports. According to Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Chairman, SIFAX Group, while receiving the new Commissioner of Police, Port Authority Police (Western) Command, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Iyabode Agbaminoja, who paid the company a courtesy visit, there is a need for all stakeholders in the nation’s port ecosystem to support the operations of the Command in a bid to ensure security of lives and property, safeguard port infrastructure and guarantee conducive environment for legitimate commercial activities within the nation’s ports. …

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Dangote, Monopoly Power, and Political Economy of Failure

BY BLAISE UDUNZE Nigeria’s refining crisis is one of the country’s most enduring economic contradictions. Africa’s largest crude oil producer, strategically located on the Atlantic coast and home to over 200 million people, has for decades depended on imported refined petroleum products. This illogicality has drained foreign exchange, weakened the …

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