President Tinubu Seeks Fresh $8.699bn, €100m Loans   Barely one month after seeking approval for $7.8 billion and €100 million loans from the National Assembly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, again yesterday, asked for fresh foreign loans of $8.699 billion and €100 million. This was revealed in separate...

States Borrow N988trn, Spend N1.7trn on Meals, Trips, others   The 36 states of the federation have spent N1.71tn on recurrent expenditures including allowances, foreign trips, office stationery, aircraft maintenance, and more in the first nine months of 2023. This is according to an analysis of their...

Oil & Gas, Manufacturing Sectors Get 55.5% of Loans in H1, 2023   Two sectors, Oil and Gas, and the manufacturing sectors dominated banks’ lending in the first half of the year, H1’23, accounting for 55.5 per cent of the N8.03 trillion increase in loans during...

CBN’s Lending to Banks Rises by 466 % to N268bn   Banks’ borrowings from the Standing Lending Facility (SLF) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) increased year-on-year (YoY) by 466 percent to N268.3 billion as at end of October 2023 from N47.35 billion as at...

How States Obtained N26.31bn Excess Crude Account Loans   State governments have acquired about N26.31bn loans from the Excess Crude Account facility, which is meant for implementing development and infrastructural projects. Findings showed that a total of about N183.1bn excess crude account facility deposit sits in the...

FG Earmarks N3.27trn on Palliatives, Loans   The total spending by the Federal Government on palliatives and loans to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal may hit N3.27tn. The palliatives and loans were meant to cushion the effects of economic hardships on Nigerians and businesses...