Ministry of Finance Incorporated: Can Takang Deliver? by Walter Duru, Ph.D   Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has just appointed a new leadership for the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI), an asset holding and management company under the Federal Ministry of Finance, with mandate as the...

Senate Approves 2024-2026 MTEF, to Probe Tax Waivers from 2015 Senate has approved the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). The upper legislative chamber also ordered investigation into all tax waivers since 2015 and directed that waivers not directly linked to...

President Tinubu Woos Foreign Investors at G-20 Summit President Bola Tinubu, has told international investors that beyond Nigeria’s natural resources, the people who are highly educated, skilled, and industrious are the primary asset and advantage the country possess over other nations for investments. The President spoke...

World Bank Approves $300m Palliative Loans - Report The World Bank has commenced payment of the $800m approved for the National Social Safety Net Program-Scale Up. Documents obtained from the apex bank shows that about $299.99 million was disbursed to Nigeria under the National Social Safety...

Nigeria’s Inflation Hits 27.33% as Food Prices Soar   Nigeria’s annual inflation rate rose to 27.33 per cent in October from 26.72 per cent in the previous month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. The statistics office said the October 2023 headline inflation rate showed...

President Tinubu’s yacht as a metaphor for improved slum architecture at Makoko, by Ahmed Yahaya-Joe “Nigerian politicians have the appetite of elephants but the memory of mice.” – Chidi Nnanna Amuta (2017) Between widespread accusations of leadership insensitivity and obvious bureaucratic faux pas concerning certain details...