In Eight Months, Foreign Portfolio Deficit Falls To N1.4bn   Nigeria’s foreign portfolio deficit, which is the gap between outflows and inflows, narrowed considerably by 91.02 per cent (N14.50 billion) to N1.43 billion between January and August 2022, report on the fund’s movement has shown. The report...

PFAs Invest N52.87bn In Climate Change Adaptation Projects   Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) have invested N52.87 billion in Green Bonds, which are focused on climate change- related projects. Green Bonds are types of debts issued by public or private institutions to fund themselves. It works like regular...

Banks’ Expenditure On Communications, IT Rises To N82bn   Ten commercial banks spent N81.92bn on communications as well as Information Technology services in the first half of 2022. According to the financial reports of the banks, this was a 58.69 per cent increase from the N51.62bn spent...

Report Reveals Nigeria Spent N75bn On Hazardous Imports   A non-governmental organisation, Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev) has said that between 2020 to 2021, Nigeria spent N75bn on the importation of highly hazardous pesticides. The Executive Director, SRADev, Dr Leslie Adogame, said this while...

Fed Govt Earmarks $7bn For Poverty Reduction   The Federal Government says it has earmarked about $7 billion within the last seven years in its efforts to pull 100 million Nigerians out of poverty through its National Social Investment Programme in the country. The Minister of Humanitarian...

Fed Govt’s Earnings From Spectrum Sales Rise To $1.09bn   The Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to make at least $1.09bn (N476bn) from the sale of four 5G spectrums. This is after the NCC revealed in a new ‘Information Memorandum on 3.5...