FG LOSES $518m to Oil Swap, OPA Deals- Waziri Adio
Recently the 2013 Audit Report of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Oil, Gas and Solid Minerals was made public. The Executive...
There Is Liquidity Crunch In The System — Igomu
A one-time bank worker and former Chairman of the Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association (NTMA), Mr. Ibrahim Igomu, tells Economic Confidential Acting Editor, Ewache Ajefu,...
SON Seizes, Destroys N1.6bn Products In 12 Months
Dr. Paul Angya is the Acting Director General/Chief Executive of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). In this interview with Economic Confidential Editor, EWACHE AJEFU,...
Compensation: NAIC Pays N1.3bn To Farmers’
Mr. Bashir Binji is the Acting Managing Director of Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC). In this interview with ourActing Editor, Ewache Ajefu, the insurance...
PPP to Rescue African Farmers – Dr. Kormawa
Dr. Patrick Kormawa is the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO’s) Sub-regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa and Representative to the African Union (AU) and UN...
How FIRS Generates N1.9trn In 6 Months-FIRS Boss
On Wednesday July 15, 2015, Chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Mr. Samuel Ogungbesan hosted an Economic Confidential Editorial team in his...
We Are Satisfied With Security Situation In IDP Camps- NEMA DG
Muhammad Sani-Sidi is - Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Prior to his appointment, he was a commissioner in various ministries...
Social, Affordable Housing Absent From Abuja Plan- Bala Muhammed
What is FCT administration doing to bring down high cost of rent?
We are doing so much to encourage the private sector to reduce the...
We Have Returned N455,880,020.27 To Savannah Bank Since 2012- NDIC Boss
The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) was established in 1989 mainly to resolve issues resulting from bank distress and failures. As part of activities...
With N10.3t Debt, Nigeria Has No More Borrowing Space- Nwankwo
Director General of the Debt Management Office, Abraham Nwankwo recently spoke with Economic Confidential on issues concerning widening the debt market to accommodate private...
Premium Pension Nets N325bn, Pays Retirees N58bn – CEO
Premium Pension Limited is one of the leading pension fund administrators in the country. When Editors of the Economic Confidential and others were invited...
Nigeria In Unprecedented Financial Crisis – Oshiomhole
Why was Governor Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole of Edo State involved in a solidarity march organized by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja to...
Ensuring Debt Sustainability
Director General of the Debt Management Office, Dr. Abraham Nwankwo says Nigeria will achieve debt sustainability only when the economy is diversified
What are the...
Wobbling Economy
Professor Emeritus Uka Ezenwe has been an academic for 42 years. The first 30 years he spent teaching Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University...
FERMA to Engage 10,000 Nigerians for Road Maintenance- Engr. Adeniji
Engr. Ezekiel Olajide Adeniji is currently the Chairman of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). A Nigerian through-through whose working life was in Hausa-Fulani...
Many States in Financial Crises… While North is Searching for Oil – Gov. Babangida...
In spite of his tight official schedules as Governor of Niger State as well as Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Dr. Mu’azu...
We Are Developing More Satellite Towns in Abuja- FCT Minister of State
The Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is one of few ministries where two ministers work harmoniously to achieve the mandates of their...
Full Disclosure: Azazi open up on Boko Haram, PDP and the North
The National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, suddenly found himself in the eye of the storm after he spoke extempore at the recent...
Nigeria Should Look Beyond Oil Revenue Now- World Bank Country Director
The World Bank Country Director in Nigeria, Ms Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly is barely a year on the current post but her activities towards development...
Why Corpers Should Go to Farms and Rural Areas- Youth Minister
A former Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology in Kwara state and an outstanding journalist with ThisDay newspaper, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi studied Mass-Communication at...