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Senate President Ahmad Lawan has underscored the need to have a budget reform that will include a law on timeliness in budget passing. "We can reform our budget cycle if there is a law on timeliness for budget passing," Lawan said, late…

By Babajide Okeowo The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS has revealed that Nigeria received $5.82 billion capital inflows in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019, compared to $8.48 billion in the first quarter (Q1). This is revealed in the…

Joy Anyim The proliferation and abuse of controlled, fake and unregistered drugs has remained a bane of the society. While security experts have attributed the rising cases of crime and criminality to these drugs, medical experts have…

BABAJIDE OKEOWO Nigeria imported four billion litres of premium motor spirit popularly known as petrol in the first quarter of 2019. This is according to newly released statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS which said a…

The consumer price index, which measures inflation, rose to 11.37% in April 2019, according to the monthly inflation report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to the report, year-on-year, inflation increased…

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 Babajide Okeowo Ahead of the 266th Monetary Policy Committee, MPC meeting on Monday and Tuesday, March 25-26, 2019, the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has projected that the current monetary policy…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed the immediate payment of February salaries to enable workers wishing to travel for Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly election to do so without much difficulties. The Minister of…

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Automated Teller Machine (ATM) from selected banks across the country recorded transactions valued at N39.15 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018. The bureau stated this in its “Selected…

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