NOVA Merchant Bank maintains profit trajectory with N1.15bn in second year

NOVA Merchant Bank, Nigeria’s wholesale financial institutions now in its second year of full financial operations has maintained maintained its profit growth trajectory with the announcement of N1.15 billion in post tax profit for the year ended 31st of December 2018. The profit was about 120 percentage rise over the amount recorded in the wholesale […]

Nigeria’s Standard Organisation vows to expose adulterated lubricant dealers

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has stated that it would blacklist and publish the names of erring importers and manufacturers of fake and sub-standard lubricants in the country. Osita Aboloma, director general, SON disclosed that the action would also send a strong warning to unscrupulous individuals to desist from the nefarious trade in fake […]

Only 8.5% of bitcoin, cryptocurrency traders are female

A new demographic analysis of people trading in cryptocurrencies has shown that only very few – 8.5 percent – are female, with most having little to no previous experience. The study also showed that many of this 8.5 percent are students or working in sales and marketing roles. The research, conducted by Etoro, a social […]

CME Group ups operations with instant ethereum reference rate, price index

CME Group, a derivatives exchange operator has upped its operations with the introduction of an ethereum reference rate and a real-time ethereum-dollar index in partnership with UK-based digital asset trading service, Crypto Facilities. The group on Monday said it would make available daily benchmark price in U.S. dollars each 24 hours, as well as the […]