NSIA Assets Rise to N1trn, Attract $500m FDI   The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) says it grew its net assets by 10.5 per cent to N1.02tn in 2022 from N919.73bn in 2021. The Sovereign Wealth Fund manager disclosed that earnings from interest income, infrastructure business revenue,...

Buhari Warns Against Delay As NLNG Train 7 $10bn Investment Begins       President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the construction of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas train 7 project and charged the company to ensure its timely completion. Buhari who did the ground breaking virtually from Abuja said...

Despite COVID-19, Africa Records $80bn Diaspora Remittances       Diaspora remittances to Africa as a whole have increased to over $80 billion despite the COVID-19 impact on economies worldwide, and against the backdrop of a fall in remittances worldwide. However, remittances to Nigeria dropped by 27.7 percent in...

Remittance To Low, Middle-income Countries Now $540bn       Remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries reached $540 billion last year, just 1.6 per cent below the 2019 total of $548 billion, according to the latest Migration and Development Brief by World Bank has shown. The bank said...

$40bn Investments Needed for Nigeria’s Gas Plan - NNPC       The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the Nigerian oil and gas industry will require at least $40 billion in direct investments in basic infrastructure to achieve the federal government’s much talked-about about “Decade...

Illicit Financial Flows Will threaten Economic Stability– Finance Minister Illicit financial flows (IFFs), unless checked, will continue to significantly erode domestic revenues, enable corruption, threaten economic stability and sustainable development, divert money from public priorities and hamper government’s efforts to mobilise domestic resources and recover...