Naira Slides Further As Dollar Shortage Hits Banks   The widening gap between the demand and supply of dollars in the banks and at the parallel market has continued to worsen the value of the naira. In less than three weeks, the...

FG To Settle N187.32bn Contractors’ Debt This Year   The administration of President Bola Tinubu will likely spend about N187.32bn to settle debts owed to local contractors this year. The debts were listed as promissory notes in a document titled, ‘Schedule of...

CBN Staff Loans Increase By 113%, Now N40bn The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it issued N40.67bn loans to members of its staff as of December 2022. This was according to the apex bank’s audited financial statement for...

Niger Border Closure: Arewa Economic Forum Laments N13bn Loss, 2000 Stranded Containers The Arewa Economic Forum (AED) has declared that the financial loss occasioned by the closure of the Nigerien border with Nigeria is 13 billion naira on a weekly...

Uniting Africa: A Call to Fight Neocolonialism, by Abubakar Muh'd kantoma   Africa, a continent rich in resources and diverse cultures, has long been plagued by the effects of neocolonialism, hindering its path towards true independence, socio-economic development, sustainable democracy, and...

Nigeria Has Only two Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta A report in the Nigerian Journal of Cardiology in 2021 indicates that, heart or cardio vascular diseases involving the heart and blood vessels, particularly obesity-induced hypertension, are rampaging among...