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Tinubu: Nigeria Shifts Borrowing to Infrastructure Investment, Targets $1trn Economy by 2030

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that Nigeria is entering a new phase of economic transformation in which government borrowing will increasingly be directed...

Obasanjo Says Tinubu’s Reforms Deepened Poverty as Nigeria’s Economy Shows Mixed Signals

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, arguing that the sharp depreciation of the naira and the removal of petrol...

NLNG Dividends Row: Makinde stands by N9trn Claim, Demands Answers From Presidency

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has reaffirmed his allegation that the Federal Government spent Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) dividend proceeds allegedly due to states...

World fights costly petrol. Tinubu defends it

By Farooq A. Kperogi Something extraordinary is happening across the world. Governments are losing sleep over the intolerably rising prices of petrol and diesel. They are cutting...

Nigeria’s debt stock inches nearer N170trn as FG begins talks for new $1.5bn World Bank loans

The Federal Government is seeking fresh World Bank financing totalling $1.5bn for climate resilience, social protection and early childhood development, even as Nigeria’s total...

Nigerian University Lecturers and the Self-Normalisation of Poverty

By Prof. Abdelghaffar Amoka Abdelmalik I was invited to conduct an external examination for three postgraduate students (1 PhD and 2 MSc) at an institution...

N5.15tn IGR by States, FCT: What Did it Buy For Citizens?

Revenue is rising, the economy is growing and inflation is slowing — but the real test of Nigeria’s reforms is whether households can actually...

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