Last week, the value
of the Naira recorded the highest and fastest gain of 11.9 per cent, at parallel market, in over three years.
Not exact matches
We established the Agro Rangers Unit within the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to protect the billions
of naira of investments
recorded in Nigeria's agricultural sector across the country.
It also
recorded a loss
of 60.67 million
naira ($ 304,905) in August.
Traders in the market expressed concern about the depreciation
of the
Naira in spite the gains earlier
recorded.
Notwithstanding the impact
of Naira devaluation and double digit inflation in Nigeria and a number
of other African countries where UBA operates, the Group managed through its cost lines to deliver a sterling Profit Before tax (PBT) ofN57.5 billion, representing a significant growth
of 65.5 percent over N34.8 billion
recorded in the corresponding period
of June 2016.
Interestingly as properties worth billions
of Naira are lost to natural disasters, fewer deaths are
recorded.
«LASEMA, in the last one year had responded to numerous fire incidents, road accidents, flooding, illegal parked trucks, gas explosion / emission amongst other emergencies in
record time, thereby saving lots
of lives and properties worth millions
of naira,» Oladejo said.
«In sheer unimaginable falsehood the House
records reads, «this honorable House do resolve to authorize the state government to obtain loans
of one billion
naira and ten billion
naira respectively from UBA Plc to re-finance facility from GTB and fund infrastructural projects in the state».
Africa's biggest economy and top oil producer is reeling from the fall in crude revenues, the source
of 95 percent
of foreign earnings, which has led to the
naira hitting
record lows on the parallel market amid dwindling foreign exchange reserves.
Last week the
naira — hit by a foreign exchange scarcity in the face
of low oil receipts — fell to a
record low
of 305 to the dollar on the parallel market, compared with the official rate
of 197.