Hi there, and welcome to the Enterprise Roundup this week. Right here, we deliver you highlights of occasions that occurred through the week -from the capital market to the mainstream enterprise actions, whereas not forgetting the tech/economic system build-up.
Listed here are the Headlines:
Railway debt service rises amid N1.31bn decline in income
PoS brokers in Lagos improve fees for withdrawal, switch
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic fees prospects $450,000 for house journey
Cooking fuel costs drop, highest in North-Central states, lowest in S’East
CBN units new transaction limits on contactless funds
Abstract:
Railway-related debt service prices the Federal Authorities $62.66 million within the first quarter of this yr.
Information obtained from the Debt Administration Workplace (DMO) by Ripples Nigeria on Saturday revealed that the quantity was used to service debt on the Nigeria Railway Modernisation Challenge (Idu-Kaduna Part), Nigeria Railway Modernisation Challenge (Lagos-Ibadan Part) and the Nigeria Abuja Mild Rail Challenge.
A breakdown of the determine confirmed that the Nigeria Railway Modernisation Challenge (Idu-Kaduna Part) gulped $23.1 million.
Residents of Lagos State will quickly begin to pay extra for withdrawal and switch of cash by means of Level of Sale {PoS}, the Lagos State chapter of the Affiliation of Cell Cash and Financial institution Brokers in Nigeria has resolved to cost prospects N500 for N10,000 money withdrawals.
The Public Relations Officer of AMMBAN in Lagos, Stephen Adeoye, introduced the brand new fees whereas talking on Channels Tv on Friday.
Based on him, the affiliation’s value record is to eradicate value discrepancies within the trade.
Virgin Galactic, a spaceship owned by Richard Branson, has made its first industrial flight into house and charged passengers between $200,000 and $450,000 every.
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The primary journey into house, a visit of fifty miles from the Earth, was carried out on Thursday after Virgin Galactic twin-fuselage “mothership” plane left the Spaceport America, New Mexico, at 8:30 am native time and returned by 4:45 p.m.
The mothership, after gaining excessive altitude, had launched VSS Unity, a rocket-powered airplane that conveyed six crew members on a 90-minute flight out of Earth.
The Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) has set new transaction limits on contactless funds after issuing tips for industrial banks and different monetary establishments to undertake.
In an announcement launched on Tuesday, the CBN mentioned contactless funds are actually restricted to N15,000 per transaction, however the day by day cumulative restrict is proscribed to N50,000.
Contactless funds are transactions completed with out bodily contact with gadgets. Pre-paid, debit and bank cards, tokens, cell digital gadgets, stickers, fobs and wearable gadgets can be utilized for contactless funds.
The typical retail value for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Fuel, higher generally known as Cooking Fuel, dropped to N4,360.69 in Could 2023.
The Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed this in its Liquefied Petroleum Fuel (Cooking Fuel) Worth Look ahead to Could launched on Tuesday.
Based on the NBS, the worth of refilling a 5kg cylinder depreciated by 6.07 % on a month-on-month foundation from N4,642.27 recorded in April 2023 to N4,360.69 final month.
NSE ROUNDUP: PZ, Transcorp Lodges, others carry Nigeria’s capital market by N467.9bn
The fairness capitalization within the Nigerian capital market rose by 1.42 % on the shut of buying and selling on Friday.
This represented a N467.95 billion progress within the worth of investments from N32.72 trillion to N33.19 trillion after 5 hours of enterprise within the capital market.
Recall that the inventory market didn’t open on Wednesday and Thursday due to the Eid-el-Kabir vacation.
On the tech scene, Messenger, Peach Motors, Trella, Twitter, Jada, GrEEK, Haul247, Creditchek, Maltento, JP Morgan, Brookfield Asset Administration, and byanat have been a number of the names that made the headlines within the tech ecosystem this week.
Creditchek, a Nigerian fintech startup, has launched to assist lenders throughout Africa assess credit score dangers by offering dependable verification of potential shoppers’ creditworthiness.
Additionally, Nigeria’s Haul247, a logistics tech platform that connects companies with haulage and warehousing providers, has introduced securing a $3 million in seed funding.
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