Michael Ajifowoke

The Lunch Hour – 10 Must-Read Interviews with Joe Abah, Olumide Akpata, Kingsley Moghalu in 2020

The Lunch Hour – 10 Must-Read Interviews with Joe Abah, Olumide Akpata, Kingsley Moghalu in 2020

On September 5, 2019, we published the first-ever “The Lunch Hour” interview. Since then, we have featured more than 30… Read More

5 years ago

Novavax High Temp Covid Vaccine Starts Phase 3 Trial, Shares Rise 2,781%

American biotech firm Novavax on Monday launched a late-stage trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico.… Read More

5 years ago

AstraZeneca Vaccine 100% Effective Against Severe Covid-19

The coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca provides “100 percent protection” against severe… Read More

5 years ago

China to Become World’s Biggest Economy In 8 Years – Report

China will become the world’s biggest economy before the end of the decade, overtaking the United States, Britain-based consultancy Centre… Read More

5 years ago

Manufacturing Contraction Points to Slower Than Expected Recovery in Nigeria

Nigeria’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for December fell back to 49.6 index points after expanding slightly in the previous… Read More

5 years ago

Nigerian Markets Last Week: Oil Prices Down on Covid Resurgence, Manufacturing Index Slumps

The Nigerian Markets report for the week ended December 25, 2020. Stock Market The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index and… Read More

5 years ago

Gene Editing, Robotics Among Innovation That Could “Shape Financial Markets for Years”

Innovation appears to be evolving at such a rapid pace that traditional equity benchmarks are being populated increasingly by so-called… Read More

5 years ago

Higher Energy Prices Encourage Producers To Increase Drilling

Energy firms in the United States this week added oil and natural gas rigs for a fifth week in a… Read More

5 years ago

Nigeria and the IMF: End of the Fulani Marriage?

“Nigeria’s $1.5 billon World Bank loan is a modified Fulani marriage; it has gotten a skinny plain bride for a… Read More

5 years ago

UAE Offers Free Chinese Vaccines To Immunise Population Against Coronavirus

In Africa, widespread campaigns to distribute Covid-19 vaccines will likely only begin in the second quarter of next year because… Read More

5 years ago

IMF Says Nigeria’s Tax Collection Amongst “Lowest in the World”

Nigeria’s government must improve revenue collection especially through its tax policy, which is currently among the lowest in the world,… Read More

5 years ago

70% More Infectious Coronavirus; Should Nigeria Ban Travel from the UK?

A growing list of European nations and others such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran on Sunday banned travel to… Read More

5 years ago