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Euromoney Awards Zenith Best Bank for Digital Solutions
Zenith Bank Plc has been awarded the “Best Bank for Digital Solutions in Nigeria” at the 2023 Euromoney Awards for Excellence while highlighting...
Fraud, Ponzi Schemes and Terror Financing: A Story About Banking In Nigeria
In May 2022, shortly after my story about Chinese loan sharks in West Africa went up, a number of new tips and leads started trickling...
Niger Settles $7.6m Debt With UK Aviation Firm to Save $35m New York Mansion From Seizure
The government of Niger has settled a long-running dispute with Menzies Aviation, a Scottish airport services provider, preventing a $35 million mansion it...
Opinion: 100 Reasons to Question the APC Before Voting for It
The All Progressives Congress has controlled Nigeria’s federal government since 2015. After more than a decade in power, Nigerians have the right to...
Niger’s Capital Returns to Calm One Day After Failed Army Mutiny
Life in Niamey returned to normal on Sunday, one day after Niger’s military regime put down a mutiny by soldiers. Intense fighting took...
Tinubu’s Minister Bernard Doro Gave Out N20,000 Per Household Per Year and Calls It Poverty Reduction
The Federal Government has spent more than N600 billion on cash transfers to vulnerable Nigerians over the past three years, reaching about 10...
Nearly Five Years After Coup, Guinea’s President Doumbouya Dismisses 173 Soldiers Including Officer Who Helped Him Seize Power
Guinea’s President Mamadi Doumbouya has dismissed 173 military personnel for desertion in one of the broadest military shake-ups since he seized power in...
Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele Says FG Won’t Publish Spending Details of $5bn FAB Loan, Insists There Is Nothing Special About It
The federal government will not publish a specific breakdown of how funds accessed under its $5 billion financing facility with First Abu Dhabi...
Nigeria’s Budget Deficit Doubles to N31 Trillion in 2026, Violating Its Own Fiscal Rules, BudgIT Warns
Nigeria’s projected budget deficit has more than doubled from N13.08 trillion in 2025 to over N31 trillion in 2026, a breach of the...
Tinubu Signs Executive Order to Unlock $50 Billion Oil Investment, Gives Tax Breaks to Rich Companies While Nigerians Pay More Taxes
President Bola Tinubu has signed the Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order, 2026, a policy framework he says will...
Tinubu Says Stock Market Trading in Classrooms Will Build Prosperous Nation, Yet Millions of Nigerians Cannot Afford School Fees
President Bola Tinubu has called for the integration of stock market trading and capital market education into the curriculum of Nigerian universities, saying...
N10 Trillion Wasted in 13 Years, Yet Tinubu’s Power Sector Promises Remain Empty
Despite more than N10 trillion poured into Nigeria’s electricity sector over the past 13 years through interventions, guarantees, metering programmes and infrastructure projects,...