Economics

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team led by Jesmin Rahman conducted a virtual mission from October 30 to November 17, 2020 in the...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has a noble goal to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. “To this end I have approved an increase in...

In Finance the concept of an equity risk premium is not really difficult to grasp. The Equity Risk Premium (ERP) is the additional return that...

Nigeria’s Current-Account deficit narrowed in the Second Quarter (Q2) of 2020 as exports again dropped faster than imports amid a global economic slowdown caused...

Nigeria’s economy will not eclipse the highs it attained in 2015 until the year 2022, a 7 year gap that signals the dismal economic...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is breaking its own rules regarding Ways and Means Advances extended to the Federal Government (FG), MoneyCentral analysis...

Nigeria's Federal government is binging on domestic debt which hit a record high as at June 2020, but one positive for policymakers in Abuja...

The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) in the month of August stood at 48.5 index points, indicating contraction in the manufacturing sector for the...

Nigeria Pension Funds boosted holdings of longer dated Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bonds as the entire yield curve fell below inflation. In finance, the...

Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele will be vindicated by new research by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which suggests that the prevalence of...