By 'Dotun Akintomide Nigerian migrant workers sent back home $18.956bn as remittances, a figure which indicated a 5.2 percent growth in nine years, a UN agency’s report has shown. According to the report, titled Sending Money Home: Contributing to the SDGs, One Family at a Time and published on Wednesday, global migrant workers sent back…
The domestic debt profile of the 36 states stood at N2 .96 trillion as of March 31, 2017, according to the Debt Management Office, DMO. Data released by the DMO said the debt rose from N1.69 trillion at the same time in 2015, representing an increase of N1.27 trillion. The office made the disclosure as…
The exchange rate at the parallel market remained stable at N367 to the dollar yesterday, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) again injected $418m into foreign exchange market. The intervention, which cut across various segments of the inter-bank forex market, was aimed at pushing for the convergence of various market rates and resumption of…
To reduce the strangulating high interest rates charged on loans by financial institutions in the country, the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation and Deposit Money Banks to a meeting on Tuesday. The New Diplomat learnt the Senate panel has also…
The rise in Nigeria’s debt profile to N19.15 trillion in March, 2017 as against N17.36 trillion at the end of December 31, 2016 has continued to erode the gains made by the country under the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime leading to Nigeria getting off the hook of Paris Club debts. According to Debt Management…