Nigeria Faces Six-year Delay In Achieving SDGs - IMF       Nigeria faces a six-year delay in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, according to the International Monetary Fund. The Managing Director, IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, said this on Tuesday in a statement titled ‘UN high level political forum on sustainable-development’. She...

Nigeria Lost 4.5trn Oil Barrels To Theft In 4 Years, Says Minister       Dr Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Environment, on Monday, disclosed that Nigeria recorded 4,919 oil spills between 2015 to March 2021 and lost 4.5 trillion barrels of oil to theft in four years. Abubakar disclosed...

Nigeria’s Debt To Grow To N48trn By 2024       If everything goes as planned, Nigeria’s total debt will grow to N48 trillion by 2024. This is going by the government’s planned borrowings from 2022 to 2024. According to data from the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning,...

Nigeria’s Cryptocurrency and Digital Currency Debate, by Inyene Ibanga     Early February this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released a circular to banks and financial institutions, warning that transactions in and facilitating payments for cryptocurrency exchanges were prohibited. The CBN further directed all banks and...

COVID-19 Vaccine: Nigeria Misses Out As W/Bank Gives $4bn To Ghana, 50 others     The World Bank has stated that it has spent over $4bn financing to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, Benin and 49 other countries. This was contained in a press statement released on...

Twitter Ban: X-Raying Legal and Socio-polical Issues in Nigeria, by Kaigama Mustapha     Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with over 200 million people with a projection to reach 379 million by 2047, as reported by Census Bureau of the United States. It is also...