How Buhari Intends To Spend $22.7m Foreign Loan
Here is how the Buhari administration plans to spend the loan and where the projects are located as contained in the document: INFRASTRUCTURE – Emergency road rehabilitation and maintenance ($434.7m, nationwide) – Abidjan-Lagos corridor highway development project study ($1.5m; multinational) – Abuja mass rail transit project (phase 2) ($1.25bn; FCT) – East-west road ($800m; Niger Delta) – Nigeria Housing Finance Project Guarantee Scheme ($100m;...
Non-Exploitation Of Mineral Resources Responsible For Insecurity, Says Gov. Masari
Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has blamed the increasing spate of banditry and other forms of insecurity across the country on the failure of government to exploit the nation’s solid mineral resources. Masari, who said this on Wednesday when he visited the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, in Abuja, maintained that the agitations for resource control...
Inflation Rate Under Buhari Not Highest In Nigerian History — Keyamo
Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for the presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the inflation rate under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration is not the highest in the history of the country. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who appeared on Arise TV morning show on Monday, was responding to questions about what Buhari’s...
Tinubu To Present N26.1 Trillion 2024 Budget To National Assembly November
President Bola Tinubu will present the proposed N26.1trillion 2024 budget estimates to joint session of the National Assembly early next month, the Senate revealed on Wednesday. Ahead of the presentation, the Senate through its committee on Appropriations , has summoned the Ministers of Finance , Wale Edun and his counterpart on Budget and Economic Planning , Senator Atiku Bagudu ,...
Fresh Borrowing: Reps Approve Buhari’s $16bn, €1bn Loan Requests, $125m Grant
House of Representatives, yesterday, approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for new externally borrowing comprising $16.2 billion and €1.020 billion. The House also approved a grant component of the external funding plan amounting to $125 million in the President’s request. The approval was granted during the consideration of report on the ‘Request for a concurrent approval of donor fund projects under the...
BREAKING! Inflation rises to 12.13%
Nigeria’s annual inflation accelerated to 12.13% in January from 11.98% in December, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. A separate food price index showed inflation at 14.85% in January, compared with 14.67% in December. The 12.13 per cent inflation rate represents an increase of 0.15 percentage point over the index recorded in December last year. An analysis of the NBS...
Experts Disagree As Presidency Claims Inflation To Drop To Single Digit
The Presidency has assured Nigerians that the inflation rate in the country is heading towards a single digit and would translate to better living conditions for the masses. Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Tope Fasua, who gave the assurance, as guest on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief yesterday, also said the drop in the inflation rate has...
No More Loans For FG, CBN Declares
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has discontinued granting loans through its Ways and Means advances to the federal government. The CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, said the decision was because of the government’s failure to settle its outstanding debt. Cardoso said this on Friday at an interactive session with the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions...
Naira, Stocks Weakens After Trump’s Military Threat
Nigeria’s financial markets began November 2025 on a sour note as the naira and equities weakened sharply following remarks by United States President Donald Trump, who threatened possible military action against Nigeria over alleged religious persecution. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed that the naira, which had traded at a 2025 peak of N1,421.73/$, depreciated to N1,436.34/$ on...
Oando, Ecobank Record Price Fall As Nigerian Stock Market Loses N54bn
The Nigerian equities market began trading for the week on Monday still in a negative mood with 0.27 percent loss due to renewed profit-taking. Specifically, the All-Share Index which opened for the week at 38,648.91 shed 103.61 points or 0.27 percent to close at 38,545.30. Accordingly, month-to-date gain moderated to 0.3 percent, while year-to-date loss increased to 4.3 percent. In the...
