The Debt Management Office, DMO, said that Nigeria’s total public debt has increased by 24.99 per cent to N121.67 trillion (approximately $91.46 billion) as of March 31, 2024. DMO disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The figure is a significant increase compared to the N97.34 trillion recorded on December 31, 2023. According to DMO,…
The Naira appreciated marginally to N1480 against the dollar at the parallel foreign exchange market, also known as the black market, amid the Sallah holidays. Dayyabu Ashiru, a bureau de change operator at Wuse Zone 4 in Abuja, disclosed this to newsmen He noted that demand for foreign exchange had remained flat due to the…
The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said his $20 billion 650,000 barrels per day Lagos-based refinery will crash the price of fuel as it reduced the price of diesel in Nigeria. Dangote disclosed this at a recent Afreximbank Annual Meetings and AfriCaribbean Trade & Investment Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas. Asked to speak…
The naira appreciated against the dollar at the official foreign exchange market on Monday. FMDQ data showed that the naira appreciated slightly to N1,483.62 against the dollar on Monday from N1,483.99 traded last Friday. This represents N0.37 gain compared to N1, 483.99 traded last Friday. Similarly, at the parallel market section, the naira increased to…
The government of the United Kingdom (UK) has helped to attract $85 million investment into Nigeria’s manufacturing sector through its Manufacturing Africa programme since 2020. Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Jonny Baxter, disclosed this at a ceremony to announce the funding of three Nigerian-based clean energy companies to expand renewable energy access in the…
Credit to the government rose month-on-month, MoM, by 2.0 percent to N19.98 trillion in April from N19.58 trillion in March. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Money and Credit Statistics for April showed mixed trend in credit to the government since January where it stood at N23.5 trillion. How i went from selling…
The naira on Tuesday traded at the same rate of N1,339.33 to a dollar at the official market. Data from the official trading platform of the FMDQ Exchange, a platform that oversees the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM, revealed that the naira remained static. This indicated that the local currency neither gained nor lost…
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, on Monday, disclosed that the ministry injected an estimated value of N309 billion into the economy within the last one year. Kyari gave the hint while making his presentation during the ongoing Ministerial Sectoral Update, a platform President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet members are using…
Manufacturers’ confidence in Nigeria’s economy surged by 53.3 points in the first quarter of 2024, up from 51.8 points last year. Director-General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, recently disclosed this in its CEO Confidence Index report. The quarterly report measures stakeholders’ concerns about changes in economic government policies. In his comment, Ajayi-Kadir…
The National Bureau of Statistics yesterday said that the surge in prices of food items continued in April, with the average price of five basic foods items recorded 140.4 per cent, Year-on-Year, YoY increase during the month. The five food items are local rice, garri white, tomatoes, beans brown and yam. People Talk: On sale…
