•Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite All is set for the disbursement of the N275 billion palliative support funds announced in July by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to mitigate the pains arising from the removal of petrol subsidy. Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, yesterday said that two programmes under the multi-layered inte...
•Tinubu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Tinubu-led federal government to rescind its decision on the students’ loan scheme and replace it with grants instead. Zonal Coordinator of ASUU Bauchi Zone, Comrade Lazarus Maigoro, who made the appeal yesterday on the occasion of the award of annual indigent scholarshi...
•Nigerian Senate After harmonising the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Budget, the Senate and the House of Representatives have raised the student loan appropriation to N10billion. Both chambers dropped the controversial presidential yacht, for which N5 billion was budgeted. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assured Nigerians after signing the bud...
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 2022 to Q2 2023, according to an analysis of the external debt stock data from […]

