The House of Representatives has greenlit the medium-term expenditure framework for 2024-2026, a critical set of assumptions shaping the country’s upcoming budgets. The outlined projections, ratified by President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet before reaching the National Assembly, anticipate the naira to hover around 700 Naira per dollar in 2024, gradually strengthening in the subsequent years. The Read More…
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, emphasised on Thursday that Nigeria shouldn’t solely depend on borrowing to finance the 2024 budget. Edun shared this stance during his appearance before the joint Senate Committee on the 2024–2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) in Abuja. Highlighting Read More…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says inflation rate in September rose by 0.49 per cent to 13.71 per cent from 13.22 per cent recorded in August. NBS made this known in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September released on Thursday in Abuja. It said the increase in the inflation in September was on Read More…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Consumer Price Index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased to 12.56 per cent year-on-year in June 2020. The NBS made this known in its CPI and Inflation Report for June released on Friday. It stated that the report showed that June inflation was 0.16 per cent points higher than Read More…
