Nigeria’s Bond Yields Decline As Inflation Eases And Real Interest Rate Rises

Nigeria’s bond market traded on a bullish note on Wednesday as yields fell across maturities amid renewed investor demand for fixed-income assets. The heightened activity was driven by expectations surrounding the Debt Management Office’s (DMO)...

Nigerian Treasury Bills Yields Drop To 17.39% As Inflation Slows

Yields on Nigerian Treasury Bills (T-bills) edged lower on Wednesday as sustained investor demand in the secondary market continued to drive prices higher, following new data showing a slowdown in inflation. The renewed buying pressure reflects...

Nigeria ranked 115th on Global Hunger Index as 32m face food insecurity

Nigeria has dropped to 115th position out of 125 countries on the 2025 Global Hunger Index (GHI), signalling a deepening food security and nutrition crisis fuelled by high inflation, poverty, and insecurity. The Global Hunger Index, which tracks...

Nigeria missing as IMF names Africa’s fastest-frowing economies

... Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda lead growth; Fund urges Nigeria to deepen reforms Nigeria has been left out of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest ranking of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, with Benin Republic,...

Nigeria Launches Gas Vehicle Monitoring System, Secures $1bn Private Investment For CNG Expansion

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, on Thursday launched the Nigerian Gas Vehicle Monitoring System (NGVMS), a key step in the federal government’s drive to promote safety, accountability, and environmental...

Nigeria Hosts BRICS Women’s Business Alliance Regional Office -By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh

With the geopolitical architecture simultaneously widening and deepening, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has also stepped up its operations these past few years, culminating with significant expansion in numerical strength,...

Nigeria Emerges as Africa’s AI Data Center Powerhouse

Nigeria is rapidly attracting nearly $1 billion in investments to build next-generation data centers, driven by the country’s tech-savvy, youthful population and an ambition to harness artificial intelligence to power the next wave of its digital...

W’Bank Designates Nigeria as Priority Country to Showcase Universal Health Coverage

*CBN, Angola’s apex bank sign technical cooperation agreement Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja The federal government has thanked the World Bank for designating Nigeria as a priority country to help showcase a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) COMPACT, as...

Over 100 Homes Acquired With Stanbic IBTC Empowering Nigerians By turning Dreams Into addresses

In a significant move to boost the Nigerian real estate sector, Stanbic IBTC Bank has played a strategic role in facilitating access to affordable housing finance to Nigerians. With over 100 mortgages closed at single digit interest rates, Stanbic...

14 of 36 Nigerian states score average in climate governance performance: Report

Fourteen out of 36 states in Nigeria scored average in Climate Governance Performance, according to the 2025 Subnational Climate Governance Rating and Ranking exercise. The rating was released on October 14, 2025, in federal capital Abuja. Across...

Coronation Group reinforces commitment to sustainability, corporate citizenship

Coronation Group recently concluded its second annual Brand and Sustainability Week, a comprehensive initiative that underscores the financial services conglomerate’s commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, while...

Healthy diets, sustainable systems key to Nigeria’s food security – Experts

Agricultural experts and government officials have called for the promotion of healthy diets and sustainable food systems as key steps to achieving food security in Nigeria. They made the call on Thursday during a walk to mark the 2025 World Food...

Turning Waste Into Wealth: Nigeria’s Race Toward A Circular Economy 

1 On a humid morning in Ajegunle, Lagos, heaps of used plastic bottles, nylons, and sachet wrappers tower beside narrow alleys. Young men and women sort and bag the materials for sale to local aggregators. Nearby, Wecyclers’ cargo-bikes weave...

Nigerian workers spend 40% of salaries on house rents – BD Poll

About seven in 10 Nigerian workers spend 40 percent or more of their annual salaries on rents and housing-related matters. This was one of the findings of the recently conducted BusinessDay Talk Exchange polls on the ‘State of Housing in Nigeria.’...

First Lady Charges RHI Beneficiaries To Build Foundation For Food-Secure Nigeria …As 800 Rivers Farmers Receive Agric Empowerment Support

Nigeria’s First Lady and National Coordinator of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has called on farmers in Rivers State to take full advantage of the agricultural empowerment support programme by growing their seedlings,...

Stakeholders to address Innovation, sustainability at the 2026 BUILDMACEX construction exhibition

Stakeholders in West Africa’s construction and infrastructure sector will converge in Lagos to address key themes around innovation, sustainability, and digital transformation at the upcoming BUILDMACEX 2026 Construction Exhibition, organised by...

Yusuf Calls For Revitalizing Of Nigeria’s Real Sector 

1 As the real Nigerian economy continues to struggle in the face of daunting challenges which have almost crippled it and left it scarred, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has called for the revitalizing Nigeria’s real...

Ted Cruz claims ‘Christian mass murder’ is happening in Nigeria. But what does the data say?

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

CBN boss assures foreign investors of conducive business environment

Mariam Abeeb The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has assured foreign investors that the government will continue to advance reforms and unlock opportunities for sustainable investment and growth. CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso, gave the assurance in...

‘How Nigeria can sustain growth, exchange rate stability’

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) had during the presentation of its World Economic Outlook report at the just concluded World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. raised Nigeria’s economic growth forecast for 2025 to 3.9 per cent, a...