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Image A week before Coinbase made its blockbuster debut on Wall Street on Wednesday, the cryptocurrency exchange was part of a much quieter, but symbolically important, launch — in Washington, D.C. Yep, here come the lobbyists. Along with the asset manager Fidelity, the payments company Square and the investment firm Paradigm, Coinbase established a new trade group with “a mission to unlock the transformational promise of crypto.” The Crypto Council for Innovation hopes to influence policies that will be critical for expanding the use of cryptocurrencies in conjunction with traditional ...

ON THE GO UTME now compulsory for scholarship beneficiaries, says amnesty programme coordinator Milland Dikio, interim administrator of the presidential amnesty programme (PAP), says beneficiaries of the agency’s scholarship scheme must participate in the unified tertiary examination of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation... NSF: Lagos athlete wins men’s 110m hurdles Abejoye Oyeniyi of Lagos state has claimed the gold medal in men’s 110 meters hurdles at the ongoing National Sports Festival (NSF).Advertisement Oyeniyi finished first to claim the top prize... COVID: ...

By Jimoh Babatunde & Gabriel Ewepu The Central Bank of Nigeria has in recent years come up with different programmes to grow the country’s agriculture and ensre food security in the country. One of such programmes is the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. Under the programme, the CBN set aside N40 billion, out of the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) to be given to farmers at a single-digit interest rate of maximum nine percent per annum. As part of the apex bank’s financing framework, the CBN has facilitated the funding of rice and maize farmers and ...

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ECONOMY Maize farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are set to release about 300,000 metric tonnes of maize which watchers believe will reduce the current price of maize. The huge supply boost according to stakeholders is aimed at inducing a decline in the price of the commodity to N120,000 per metric tonne from the current price of N155,000 per metric tonne. The planned release follows moves made by the critical stakeholders, working with relevant government and security agencies, to put a halt to reprehensible and speculative activities o...