Skilled Birth Attendance: FG Equips 1,400 Primary Health Care Centres The Ministry of Health has equiped 1,400 Primary Healthcare Centres to provide Skilled Birth attendance and reduce infant and maternal mortality in the country. The project, which covers 8,300 facilities, was funded through the National Primary...

Nigeria’s GDP Grows by 2.98% in Q1 2024 – NBS The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.98 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2024. The growth rate, the bureau said, is higher than the 2.31 percent recorded...

Court Orders Forfeiture of $4.7m, N830m, Assets Linked to Emefiele A Federal High Court sitting at Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered an interim forfeiture of the sums of $4,719,054 million USD, N830,875,611 million, and several properties linked to the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank...

Foreign Exchange: 136% of 2023 Inflows Recorded in QI – Cardoso The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has disclosed that the foreign exchange inflows recorded in the first quarter of 2024 into Nigeria were about 136 per cent of the...

First Phase of Student Loan Scheme launched The pilot phase of Nigeria’s student loan scheme has gone live with federal tertiary institutions as beneficiaries. President Bola Tinubu enacted an initial version of the student loan policy in June 2023 to grant interest-free loans to students. The scheme...

Inflation to Reduce in Coming Months – Cardoso The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has expressed optimism that with the measures in place, core and headline inflation will come down in the coming months. He also disclosed a new strategy...