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Things are hard and getting harder for the majority of Nigerians. Despite government’s assurances that things will improve ...
Nigeria has slipped to fourth place among Africa’s largest economies, according to updated 2024 GDP figures released by the ...
Stakeholders have backed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's ban on foreign goods, noting that it would boost Dangote Refinery, ...
Just weeks earlier, at the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington D.C., Finance Minister Wale Edun was asked directly about the implications of falling oil prices on the ...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved Nigeria’s full membership of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ...
LAGOS – Nigeria’s fiscal challenges deepened in January 2025 as a steep drop in retained revenue pushed the Federal Govern­ment’s budget deficit to -N1.1 trillion, ac­cording to the Central Bank of ...
The International Monetary Fund will begin the fifth review of Egypt's $8 billion economic reform programme, with a team ...
Egypt's net foreign assets jumped by $4.9 billion in March, central bank data showed, apparently boosted by the approval of ...
According to the report, while 41.3 per cent of Nigeria’s urban population lives in poverty; the situation is significantly ...
One of the takeaways from the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was the gap between Nigeria's economic self-assessment and that of the Bretton Woods ...
I was abroad when the CBEX scandal broke: somehow, I tend to be out of town when Nigerians get into very serious trouble but ...