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The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has described inflation as the most significant threat to the economic welfare of Nigerians, pledging the CBN’s commitment to ...
The World Bank last Thursday raised   disturbing alarm  that poverty in Nigeria will  rise astronomically by 3.6 percentage points  as 20 millions will swell the ranks of the poor over the next two ...
Angola is conducting stress tests to assess the impact of falling oil prices on its government finances, Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa said on Friday, noting that the situation increases the ...
According to Olayemi Cardoso, Naira has stabilised at a more sustainable level, closing the gap between the official and parallel ...
Trump, since returning to the White House in January, has hit dozens of countries with a blanket 10 per cent tariff, but China faces levies of up to 145 percent on many products. Beijing has responded ...
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IMF, World Bank Spring Meetings: Matters Arising
The recent International Mone­tary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) Spring Meetings brought to the forefront the press­ing need for global cooperation in navi­gating an increasingly complex ...
Nigeria’s debt servicing costs have surged to N8.9tn in the first nine months of 2024, surpassing the pro-rata budget of N6.2tn.In a recent report by Afrinvest, this increase is driven by the ...
ShareIntroduction In the inaugural edition of this treatise, we examined the challenges of the subject matter; the need for ...
Speaking virtually at a high-level roundtable on the sidelines of the 2025 World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, Shettima ...
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has applauded Nigeria’s bold reforms, including the removal of fuel subsidy and ...
Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has pledged that the apex bank will intensify its efforts to consolidate the progress made from recent ...