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Despite rising Covid-19 cases, the Central bank of Nigeria MPC encourages government to avoid locking down the economy again.   The Central Bank of Nigeria encouraged the Federal Government of Nigeria to avoid...

The United States of America has donated a field hospital worth $1.3 million to Nigeria. The United States has donated field hospital worth $1.3 million to Nigeria. The U.S. has donated field hospital worth $1.3 million...

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy attracted a total FDI of $2.6 billion in 2020 down from the $3.3 billion it attracted a year earlier. Africa recorded a total FDI of $38 billion in 2020 representing a drop of 18% from...

SERAP gives FG seven days to disclose details of payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians   Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian...

The Federal Government planned to contribute $ 350 m to the ECOWAS Security Fund out of which $ 80m ( over N30 . 5 bn) would be spent on the counter- insurgency campaign in the North -East. The pledge was made towards...

Nigeria’s first female Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala expressed gratitude to former US officials who urged President Biden to endorse her selection by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as Director...

  A cross-section of former senior U.S. government officials, including a Nobel Laureate, along with academicians and civil society leaders, have written to President Biden in support of the election of Dr. Ngozi...

US President, Joe Biden has signed an executive order to repeal the immigrant visa ban on Nigeria and others. Newly-elected President, Joe Biden has signed his first executive orders as US President including reversing...

In Africa—as elsewhere in the world—the wealthiest have come through the pandemic just fine. According to Forbes, the continent’s 18 billionaires are worth an average $4.1 billion, 12% more than a year ago, driven in...