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Dave Ibemere

Education: Bachelor of Science Mass Communication (2015), Master of Science Mass Communication University of Lagos (2018), Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab: Advanced digital reporting 2024

Experience: Business/Financial Analyst, BusinessDay Newspaper (2017-2019), Data journalist/financial analyst, Dataphyte (2019), Business Editor/HOD, Ripples Nigeria (2019-2021)

Awards: Staff of the Year, BusinessDay Research (2019), Awardee IFRA (French government) research award, UNILAG(2018), Information is a Beautiful international award-longlist nominee (2019), Top Business Editor Legit.ng (2022, 2023, 2024)

Dave Ibemere is a senior business editor at Legit.ng. He is a financial journalist with over a decade of experience in print and online media. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of Lagos. He is a member of the African Academy for Open-Source Investigation (AAOSI), the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and other media think tank groups. He previously worked with The Guardian, BusinessDay, and headed the business desk at Ripples Nigeria. Email: dave.ibemere@corp.legit.ng.

5588 articles published since 20 Sep 2021

Author's articles

Dangote drops 60 places in billionaire list, but would have been 6th, If 5% of his wealth were in bitcoin

Dangote drops 60 places in billionaire list, but would have been 6th, If 5% of his wealth were in bitcoin

Money

4 years ago

N10/l tax: Soft drinks will become out of reach for many Nigerians, Manufacturers warn government

N10/l tax: Soft drinks will become out of reach for many Nigerians, Manufacturers warn government

Economy

4 years ago

Spiderman leads as Nigerians spent over N650m at cinemas during Christmas, new year holiday

Spiderman leads as Nigerians spent over N650m at cinemas during Christmas, new year holiday

Economy

4 years ago

Soft drinks to get more expensive as Buhari govt imposes N10/litre excise duty despite manufacturers pleading

Soft drinks to get more expensive as Buhari govt imposes N10/litre excise duty despite manufacturers pleading

Economy

4 years ago

National disaster averted: car nearly collide with dana plane carrying 157 passengers on airport runway

National disaster averted: car nearly collide with dana plane carrying 157 passengers on airport runway

Economy

4 years ago

Time up: AMCON ready to disgrace 7,912 Nigerians who are notorious bank debtors, posing as rich men, women

Time up: AMCON ready to disgrace 7,912 Nigerians who are notorious bank debtors, posing as rich men, women

Economy

4 years ago

Lagos missing as eNaira is Popular in Borno, Sokoto, Gombe, CBN reveals over 100,000 wallet activated

Lagos missing as eNaira is Popular in Borno, Sokoto, Gombe, CBN reveals over 100,000 wallet activated

Economy

4 years ago

States in Northern region seems to be showing more interest in Central Bank Nigeria(CBN) eNaira with Lagos State the economic hub of the country missing out.

Over 170,000 Firearms, Ammunition disappears from police armoury as auditor-general demands answers

Over 170,000 Firearms, Ammunition disappears from police armoury as auditor-general demands answers

Economy

4 years ago

Nigerian security challenges gets a new twist as it has been revealed that police cannot account for over 170,000 ammunitions firearms kept in the armoury.

CBN promises to increase access to finance and credit for households, businesses in 2022

CBN promises to increase access to finance and credit for households, businesses in 2022

Economy

4 years ago

The Central Bank of Nigeria has promised to give out more loans in 2022 as part of it effort to ensure he economy continues in its part to full recovery...

Royal, Japul lead list of 20 Worst, Best Performing Nigerian Stocks in 2021 as investors pocket N1.238tn

Royal, Japul lead list of 20 Worst, Best Performing Nigerian Stocks in 2021 as investors pocket N1.238tn

Economy

4 years ago

The outgone year 2021 was an interesting one for Nigerian stocks investors as the market close above 60 percent year to date with investors making over N1trn.

Report shows how Lagos residents waste six years of their expected life span in traffic

Report shows how Lagos residents waste six years of their expected life span in traffic

Economy

4 years ago

Studies has advocated for a mass movement mode of transportation, like the rail system, to move people in one of the world’s most populated, congested cities.

Report: Despite eNaira, Sanusi Lamido says CBN has a lot to learn from Ghana on fintech operations

Report: Despite eNaira, Sanusi Lamido says CBN has a lot to learn from Ghana on fintech operations

Economy

4 years ago

Former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Lamido Sanusi has showered high praises on Ghana saying many countries have a lot to learn from how the BoG operates.

Breaking: Buhari signs 2022 budget, plans to spend all oil revenue on debt servicing and still wont be enough

Breaking: Buhari signs 2022 budget, plans to spend all oil revenue on debt servicing and still wont be enough

Economy

4 years ago

After weeks President Muhammdu Buhari has on Friday sign into law 2022 Budget with strong key numbers from revenue, economic growth to debt, and debt servicing.

This is dangerous: reactions as video shows robot with human face and smile; it behaves like human

This is dangerous: reactions as video shows robot with human face and smile; it behaves like human

Industry

4 years ago

In the video the robots could act talk and attempt things humans can, it can also interact among other things and this has got many talking on social media.

2022: Popular Primate Ayodele releases 90-pages surprising prophecies for Glo, Airtel, MTN, 9mobile

2022: Popular Primate Ayodele releases 90-pages surprising prophecies for Glo, Airtel, MTN, 9mobile

Economy

4 years ago

48 hours into the new year(2022) the prophesies have started coming in and the first is from Primate Elijah Ayodele with focus on Airtel, Glo, MTN and 9mobile.

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