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,...

CBN Expands Non-oil Export Rebate to Boost Dollar Inflows   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has expanded its non-oil export rebate scheme by opening it up to additional sectors in a bid to boost dollar inflows amid slumping...

Angola Emerges Top African Crude Oil Producer, Overtakes Nigeria Angola has emerged the topmost crude oil producer in Africa, upstaging Nigeria as the latter’s output level hits a new low. The direct communication data in the April 2023 monthly oil market...