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Bank of Agriculture (BoA)

Analogue banking killing BoA—Minister

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has opened up on why efforts to deepen agricultural productivity over the year and even currently have remained in variance to results. In an interview published in the 2017/2018 Nigeria…

How financial reckless landed BoA in N40bn loans crisis, irrelevance

Business Hilights has stumbled on details why the federal government had been silent in using the Bank of Agriculture (BoA) to drive its fledging agro revolution. The present administration had since inception, been driving massive public and private sector investments…

Banking/Investments

If BoI is shopping for N1tn to assist SMEs, why is DBN established? —BH Analysis

Barely one month after the take off of Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), indications have emerged that Bank of Industry (BoI) that had hitherto been dull in driving the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has suddenly woken up….

Inability of FG to harmonise roles of development banks’ causing confusion, leakages

Investigations by Business Hilights on the activities of three major development banks of the federal government have revealed strong possibilities of roles overlap, redundancy and leakages of funds for development into wrong hands. A report by the leading online publication…