Who Is Fit Enough To Wear Enyeama's Big Boot? by Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello   At the age of 37, Vincent Enyeama was forced to hang his boots, long before social media obsession became the order of the day in the Super Eagles. We...

IMF Raises Nigeria’s 2023 Economic Growth Forecast To 2.7%   The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has raised its forecast for Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, growth in 2023 to 2.7 per cent. The new forecast was contained in the IMF’s January World...

Time For NIPR To Bite Over Non-professionals As Military Non-professionals, by Kabir Abdulsalam   A Yoruba adage says in an entity where there are no rules, there can't be offences. People are therefore completely free to do whatever they like as...

Fed Govt’s Local Currency Debts To Hit N44trn In 2022   A report by Agusto & Co. Limited has estimated that the Federal Government’s local currency debts will rise to N44tn in 2022. This was disclosed in a report, titled ‘Nigeria in...

Rice, Beans, Tomato Jerked Up December’s Inflation   The eight-month reduction in Nigeria’s inflation was broken in December following a 0.23 percentage point increase as a result of the movement in the prices of mainly rice, bean and tomato. Economic Confidential had...

Federal Workers’ Pensions, Gratuities Gulp N208bn   The Federal Government has spent N208.21bn on payment of pension and gratuity arrears in seven months, a new Central Bank of Nigeria report has revealed. The CBN’s statistical record on the Federal Government’s monthly finances...