Business Nigeria: Today's Business, Economic and Financial Headlines [23-08-2016]

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Below are some of the business, economic and financial headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, 22nd, August, 2016. Economy -


Economy

FG Adopts Six Designs For National Housing Scheme

Meggison: How Debt Forced Airlines To Close Shop

Urbanisation: Experts Seek Ecologically Sustainable Cities

Economic Downturn: StanChart Cuts African Private Equity Team

NSE Partners Bloomberg On Business Dialogue

Stock Market Opens Week Bullish

NEXIM Bank,Bauchi partner on investment

Coscharis Motors unveils special offers for Jaguar buyers

CBN Reads Riot Act on Utilisation of ‘Free Funds’

Banking and Insurance

BDCs:Banks shun CBN’s $50,000 sale directive

Standard Chartered cuts African private equity team

Sterling Bank partners FG to address desertification

Union Bank, CBC introduce free WiFi for commuters

Banks defy CBN’s order on dollar sales to BDCs


Forex

CBN Directs Banks to Allocate 60% of FX Sales to Manufacturers
Forex

Power, Oil and Gas

FG To Maintain $50 Per Barrel Oil Price Benchmark Till 2019’

Lagos Records 9, 400 MW Power Deficit

Fashola: Nigeria Loses 3,000MW of Electricity to Forcados Attack

Omotowa: How Nigeria, Six Other Oil Producers Failed to Save for...

Aviation

Mini grids best for power sector – Ex-minister, others

Nigeria’s $22b yearly food imports bill unsustainable, says minister

Fed Govt seeks IDB’s assistance to revitalise Northeast

Maritime

Customs seizes 25,000 bags of rice

Nigeria: Today's Business, Economic and Financial Headlines [22-08-2016]