Nigeria Entitled To $3.35bn In Fresh IMF Rights Allocation       The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Ms Kristalina Georgieva, has said that the organisation begun allocating Special Drawing Rights of about $650bn on Monday. This was contained in a press statement on the IMF website...

FDC Forecasts 2.6% GDP Growth For Nigeria In Q2       Financial Derivatives Company Limited has said the Nigerian economy is expected to grow by 2.6 per cent in the second quarter of this year, up from 0.51 per cent in Q1. Analysts at Lagos-based FDC, led by...

Making Nigeria Whole By Investing In The Girl-child, by Adewale Ajadi     The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is a global milestone. It is a prototype of counter-terrorism, as defined by the West, and its efficacy, and also brings into sharper focus the role of women and...

Magistrates, Senior Lawyer Seek End Into Analogue Judiciary In Nigeria       Legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mrs Funmi Quadri has canvassed for an end into analogue judiciary system in Nigeria if quick dispensation of justice is to be quaranteed as being witnessed in...

IMF Says Nigeria Recorded $85.21bn Net Foreign Liabilities       Nigeria’s foreign liabilities stood at $187.36bn while the country’s foreign assets amounted to $102.15bn as of December 2020, the International Monetary Fund has said. From 2016, Nigeria’s foreign liabilities jumped by 42.41 per cent from $131.56bn, while foreign...

Report Ranks Nigeria 5th In Property Money Laundering     A new report by Global Financial Integrity, an American think-tank focused on illicit financial flows, corruption, illicit trade and money laundering, has ranked Nigeria fifth among countries with the most politically exposed persons involved in real estate...