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news you can trust I **FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2019 I vol. 19, no 421
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L-R: Emeka Emuwa, CEO, Union Bank; Aishah Ahmad, deputy governor, financial systems stability, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and Chukwuemeka Nwaijuba, minister of state for education, at the inauguration of Edu360 in Lagos, yesterday. Pic by Pius Okeosisi
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Frequent tanker accidents fuel calls for haulage alternative
Local, foreign investors shun cheap Nigerian stocks as outlook worsens H
...rail, waterways, pipelines top picks
CALEB OJEWALE & STEPHEN ONYEKWELU
OLUWASEGUN OLAKOYENIKAN & SEGUN ADAMS
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igerian stocks are getting cheaper but nobody is buying, as hopes of a rebound in the mar-
CBN extends OMO ban to secondary market
ket now falter on higher yields on fixed income securities and declining interest of foreigners in Nigerian assets.
Foreigners have been dumping stocks for the most of the year in the market now trading at its lowest valuation ever, but
big domestic investors who are mostly pension fund managers are unmoved even by a pos-
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aulage of petroleum products with tankers by road remains the predominant mode of moving the products across Nigeria. Every year 458,075 trucks move 1.46 billion litres of petroleum products to filling stations across the country, according to data from the Nigerian National Petroleum
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