Business Hilights

Tracking Nigeria's Headline Business News Online

Business Interview/Opinion

Governors’ Uyo Declaration, being SESSGF Communiqué

COMMUNIQUE OF THE MEETING OF SOUTH-EAST / SOUTH-SOUTH GOVERNORS FORUM HELD IN GOVERNMENT HOUSE, UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2017 The Governors of the South-East and South-South States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria met in Uyo,…

Zimbabwe: Finally, goodbye to Mugabeism, welcome to Mnangagwa

First of all, today in Zimbabwe and in fact, across Africa, marks to end of a 37 year era and beginning of a new vista as ousted former Vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa,  who had been on exile is set for…

What NBC DG, Kawu said at Kano Forum

TEXT OF A SPEECH BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISSION (NBC), IS’HAQ MODIBBO KAWU, AT THE KANO STAKEHOLDERS’ MEETING ON POLITICAL BROADCASTS, KANO, OCTOBER 26TH, 2017 PROTOCOLS: On behalf of the Board of Management and Staff of the National…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence (October 1, 2017) Day speech

My dear Nigerians, October 1st remains a special date for all Nigerians as this marks the day when we attained one of the most precious of human desires — freedom. Over the years the country has gone through trials and…

The genesis of Ozubulu Massacre: Who Is “Bishop” Nnamdi Ikegwuonu, the main target?

whereas the Anambra State Police Command, on Monday disclosed that some vital arrests have been made and they are revealing useful information to the investigative team, Business Hilights had gathered that the key target, High Chief Aloysius Nnamdi Ikegwuonu (Ebubechukwuzo,…

Emergency Broadcast by Governor of Anambra State, Obiano on Catholic Church Killings

A Special Broadcast by the Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Chief Willie Obiano on the St Phillips Catholic Church Killings at Ozubulu on August 7, 2017. Good morning fellow citizens, Ndi Anambra ekenem unu. With a sorrowful heart, I…

Joe Igbokwe tells his Lagos Story, challenges Nnamdi Kanu to trace his publicly

By Joe Igbowke In 1971, after my primary school education, poverty drove me to Lagos to find something to do to help my poor mother and siblings. Civil War devastated my father’s thriving business in Onitsha and we all suffered…

Force of logic, rather than logic of force best for national cohesion—NCC

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suggested a workable antidote to the intractable contemporary critical national issues hobbling the country at the 2017 Annual Lecture of Mass Communication Students Association, University of Lagos. Presenting his Keynote Speech, Executive Commissioner Stakeholder Management…

Background Paper: Issuing Nigeria’s Green Bonds

By Esther Agbarakwe The Paris Agreement signed and ratified by President Muhammadu Buhari in March of 2017 has an often-overlooked yet critical provision: one of the aims of the agreement, outlined in Article 2, is “Making finance flows consistent with…

Nigerians in Ghana Prisons write FG revealing their sorry conditions, seek transfer

My name is Emmanuel Emeka, a prisoner in Ankaful maximum security prison, Cape Coast, Ghana. I’m serving a jail-term of 130yrs imprisonment and I’m presently in my 8th year. We appeal to the Nigerian Government to please come to our…