Stakeholders Advocate Non-Kinetic Approach for Tackling Insecurity in Nigeria       Participants at a workshop on Digital Journalism and National Security: The Role of Social Media Influencers in the fight against crime have advocated good governance and respect for rule of law as key to improving the...

Senate Seeks Reduction In Borrowing       The Senate on Wednesday said the country should seek alternative sources of funding the budget in order to reduce borrowing. The upper chamber said although borrowing is not entirely bad, the country must seek ways and means to develop alternative funding...

Federal Scholarship Board Sponsors Ineligible Candidates for Foreign Trainings No fewer than 55 candidates selected by the Federal Scholarship Board for the 2020 BEA foreign education scholarship are not eligible to apply for the scholarship in the first place, Economic Confidential investigation reveals. To qualify for...

Nigeria’s Debts: How Each Nigerian Owes N155,000       The Debt Management Office, DMO, has announced that the total debt stock of Nigeria rose to N31 trillion as of June 2020. It also said the debts are expected to rise this year following more debts to be sourced...

Nigeria, Others Losing $15bn To Climate Change - AfDB       The President, African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has said that Nigeria and other African countries would lose between $7bn and $15bn per annum due to climate change. Adesina said this in his opening speech at...

Rethinking Nigeria's Economic Priorities By Ibrahim Shehu Dandakata     The last time there was such in abundance was during the regime of Abacha when ‘Tokunbo’ cars and spare parts became the norm as a response to that smoke. After a long time, cars with ‘smoking engines’ are...