Ben Eguzozie
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Ben Eguzozie is business a.m. regional lead based in Port Harcourt, providing regional and national coverage for economy, business and finance
You can contact him on ben.eguzozie@businessamlive.com with stories and commentary.
Covid-19 knocks Africa’s $24.4bn private equity fund industry
Ben EguzozieDecember 12, 2020
Industry raise $1.1bn in funds in 2020, with 81 deals worth $700m in H1 Nigeria’s 73% of W/Africa’s $10.7bn PE tops Africa
Nigeria, Mozambique LNG stories about to diverge
Ben EguzozieDecember 9, 2020
Mozambique off with $24bn Area 1 LNG Nigeria gas bogged by uncertain fiscal, commercial frameworks AOW advises Nigeria tailors
Peterside’s radical reform of NIMASA, captured in book, Strategic Turnaround, hailed by top British professor, Bellamy
Ben EguzozieDecember 4, 2020
Chris Bellamy, a top British professor emeritus of maritime security at the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, has hailed what
LG Electronics undertakes 300,000 free laundries for 24,000 families in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano
Ben EguzozieDecember 3, 2020
Sets up 500-clothes-sets per day wash centre in Benin City LG Electronics, a consumer goods and home appliances company,
Rivers outlines purpose of 2021 budget as capex gulps 68.18% of N448.6bn
Ben EguzozieDecember 3, 2020
To stimulate economy via investments in commerce, tourism N38bn for loans repayment 86bn to support SMEs development, social
Climate Change: Nigeria’s Niger Delta women open seeds cultivation in oil region
Ben EguzozieDecember 3, 2020
Nigeria spends N30bn on castor oil import, despite ability to grow locally Seeds propagation ups women economic power
Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State to spend N448bn in 2021 in pursuit of inclusive growth
Ben EguzozieDecember 3, 2020
Finance commissioner fails to list sectoral allocations State to spend N2.75bn on LG elections New budget 49.37% higher than revised
Sudan’s startups expect boon on country’s removal from US terrorism list
Ben EguzozieDecember 2, 2020
Country’s $40.85bn GDP expects growth post Covid-19, SST era Africa FinTech growth to touch country – say analysts
Amazon billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, invests $30m in latest African FinTech venture capital deal
Ben EguzozieNovember 30, 2020
Invested through Bezos Expeditions, his personal venture capital fund Chipper Cash, with 3m users provides 80,000 daily
Shell loses N17bn oil spill judgment, as Supreme Court dismisses company’s case
Ben EguzozieNovember 28, 2020
describes oil company’s application as “unmeritorious” judgment sum with interest now stands at N182bn – says counsel to