Rayyan Alhassan is a 30-year-old graduate of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sikkim Manipal University, Ghana. He is the acting Managing Editor at the Daily Nigerian newspaper, a position he has held for the past 3 years. He can be reached via [email protected], or www.facebook.com/RayyanAlhassan, or @Rayyan88 on Twitter.
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday reduced the Monetary Policy Rate to 12.5 per cent.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, has said that Nigeria lost about $6 billion on importation of wheat from 2016 to June 2020, going by statistics from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has said that electronic transaction volumes increased by about 67 per cent, especially during the COVID-19 lockdown with increased transactions at agent networks.