CBN Gives Banks 30-day Deadline To Close Accounts Without BVN   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has given banks and other financial institutions a 30-day timeline to close accounts without Bank Verification (BVN). Data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS)...

Budget Deficits, Low Revenue To Blame For Rising Debts – DMO   The Debt Management Office (DMO) has said decades of operating budget deficits by successive governments were responsible for Nigeria’s high debt profile. The Director-General of the DMO, Patience Oniha, said...

PFAs Exposure In FGN Securities Rise By 17% To N29.66trn   The hike in Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in an effort to tackle double-digit inflation is driving Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to gilt edge securities...

How to Enhance Early Warning, Conflict Prediction - Experts   Effective Early Warning System must take into cognisance sufficient data gathering and collection, proactive signal analysis, effective communication and response through bias-free, factual and verifiable information presentation. This was the view of...

Conflict Prevention: CISLAC, NSCDC Tighten Collaboration on Early Warning Signals   The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/Transparency International in Nigeria (TI-Nigeria), Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) has called for proactive response systems by relevant stakeholders to early warning...

Premium Times Reconstitutes Ombudsman Board for Public Oversight of It's Journalism   Nigeria’s leading investigative and pro-democracy newspaper, PREMIUM TIMES, has reconstituted its ombudsman board, six years after the oversight organ was first created. The body, first named on May 3 2017,...