The biggest story in Nigeria at the moment is the size of Nigeria’s delegation to the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, otherwise known as COP 28. In simple terms, the objective of the
By Farooq Kperogi
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), one of Nigeria’s most prominent pro-democracy NGOs, invited me to make a virtual presentation from my base in Atlanta to a national seminar it organized last Thursday on “targeted judicial … Read the rest
Nigeria’s 1,411 delegates at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai are not all government-funded and include civil society actors, business persons and others who have different roles to play at the conference, a presidential aide has said.
The Senior Special Assistant … Read the rest
Nigeria hopes to become a member of the BRICS group of nations within the next two years, a report by Bloomberg has disclosed.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, who revealed this, stated that the country will join … Read the rest
By Jide Akinsemoyin
At the Nigerian Economic Summit on 23 October, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu told the business community that a $3 trillion Nigerian economy was possible by the end of the decade. If this is to be achieved, the … Read the rest
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has replied the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, following his press conference on Monday where he said that the Supreme Court verdict affirming Bola Tinubu as the duly elected President of … Read the rest
Nigeria’s debt to China increased from $3.93bn as of June 30, 2022, to $4.73bn as of June 30, 2023, showing an increase of $800m in one year.
It is an increase of 20.36 per cent from the second quarter of … Read the rest
Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday, stressed the need for the country to move from a mono-economy and embrace non-oil exports, particularly agribusiness to overcome the problem of forex crisis that has significantly impacted the nation’s economy … Read the rest
When in 1992, James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist uttered the quip on television: “It’s the economy, stupid”, little could he have realized that he had pronounced a phrase that would reverberate beyond the United States and become a benchmark … Read the rest
