•Naira notes There is a surge in the hawking of naira notes at exorbitant charges in different parts of the country, as Nigerians continue to struggle with limited access to cash in banking halls despite threats by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The CBN had warned that it would penalise Deposit Money Banks found supporting […]
•Parts of the destroyed GSM village Penultimate Thursday, fate played a cruel one on the traders and technicians at a GSM village in Lokoja, Kogi State capital as unexpected fire outbreak razed down 35 shops, leaving tales of woes on its trails. Since the ugly incident, lamentation has become the companion of the victims of […]
•Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Lagbaja Two lawyers – Mr Siraj Hamza and Junaid Sanusi – have called on the Nigerian Army to comply with the judgment of a Borno State High Court directing it to release 14 of their clients from illegal detention. Hamza also called on the Attorney-General of the Federation and […]
Some traders and commuters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have frowned at the increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) by the NNPC Ltd. The NNPC Ltd Retail Management approved the upward review of PMS pump price from N617 per litre to N897 per litre effective from today, Tuesday, September 3, […]
•Tinubu The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has given a one-month moratorium to traders and other market stakeholders involved in exploitative pricing to crash the prices of goods. The newly appointed Executive Vice Chairman of the FCCPC, Mr Tunji Bello, said this at a one-day stakeholders engagement on exploitative pric...
•Shops Traders, especially of the northern extraction at Igbudu market in Warri, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, have dissociated themselves from the August 1 planned hardship protest. This is just as the traders have built a security architecture around their stores and wares against looters who might want to hijack the prot...
A section of Ilepo Market at Oke Odo, Lagos State, has been set on fire as hoodlums clashed with traders in the market over bet money. Some witnesses told our correspondent that the crisis started yesterday evening and escalated today, reports Daily Trust. The police are on the ground trying to restore normalcy. “One of […]
•Policemen at a checkpoint at the border Traders, clearing agents and drivers have expressed concerns over the proliferation of checkpoints mounted by security operatives on the Seme Border-Mile 2 corridor. They alleged that many of the “illegal” checkpoints were mounted to extort them, a situation they said was stifling their businesses, repo...
Following the depreciation of the Nigerian currency(Naira) in the past few months, further setbacks have hit the West African market region’s local currency as trans-border traders have started rejecting the currency. Findings across the Seme border show that the traders on both sides are now preferring either the CFA or the domestic currency ...
•Market women As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts, traders in Kano have continued to lament poor patronage by customers. Some of the traders who spoke to our correspondent yesterday in Kano attributed the situation to the low purchasing power of customers, reports NAN. A food stuff dealer, Malam Tanko Idris, said that, compared [&hellip...
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