$1.07bn Health Funds: Atiku Warns FG against Bizarre Claims, Corruption Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned the Federal Government that “claims of animals such as snakes, termites, gorillas and monkeys swallowing public funds must never be the fate of the funds budgeted for the...

Africa in The Post-Idea World By Kashim Shettima The world has never suffered from a scarcity of ideas. Nations and civilisations have risen on the strength of visionaries, and they have also crumbled under the weight of ideas left in the dusty cupboard of time....

Tinubu's Budget Expansion Proposal Sparks Debate Among Experts   President Bola Tinubu has raised the proposed 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, citing additional revenues generated by key government agencies. The president conveyed the budget adjustment in separate letters sent to both the Senate and...

Dangote Exports 130m litres of Jet Fuel to Saudi Arabia The Dangote refinery says it has sold two cargoes of aviation fuel, each averaging around 130 million litres to Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. This comes in the wake of predictions by...

‎Tinubu Cites Higher Revenue Projections as Reason for 2025 Budget Hike Request ‎President Bola Tinubu has urged the Senate to raise the 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, a N4.5 trillion increase, citing improved revenue projections as the main reason. ‎Senate President Godswill Akpabio...

‎Senate Reviews Tinubu’s N4.5trn Budget Hike ‎President Bola Tinubu has requested the Senate to increase the 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, a N4.5 trillion hike. ‎ ‎Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the request during Wednesday’s plenary, citing additional revenues from: ‎ ‎N1.4 trillion (Federal Inland Revenue...