Jim Yong Kim, then-president of the World Bank, and Kristalina Georgieva, then chief executive, who now heads IMF, took part in the scheme. A probe launched by the World Bank in respect of anomalies in the data used in preparing its Doing Business 2018 and […]

The CBN now accuses the companies of engaging in “illicit forex transactions”. A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the freezing of the accounts of six online investment firms following a request by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The accounts will remain blocked for 180 […]

Sydneysiders are braced for a longer and tighter lockdown after Australia’s biggest city recorded 50 new daily cases on Saturday. “Things are going to get worse before they get better,” New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference. “Unless we reduce […]

(Photo Credit: Google) Okonjo-Iweala Speaks On Nigeria’s Debts The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Wednesday, differed on the nation’s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio. (Photo Credit: Punch Newspaper) Experts […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for stronger Nigeria-Turkey ties. According to a statement issued on Saturday by a presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, President Buhari made the call when he put a phone call across to his Turkish counterpart, Tecep Tayyep Erdoğan, on Friday. The statement […]