Goddy Ikeh
The price of Bonny Light, Nigeria’s premium oil grade, on Wednesday, dropped by 5.09 per cent to $59.62 per barrel in the international market at the backdrop of the ongoing ripples created by the tariff war that has followed the series of tariff hikes announced by the United States of America early this week.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced a Balance of Payments (BOP) surplus of $6.83 billion for 2024 financial year, marking a decisive turnaround from deficits of $3.34 billion in 2023 and $3.32 billion in 2022.
In a move to enforce fiscal discipline and eliminate financial recklessness in public administration, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has announced that no government contract will be approved without prior commencement authorisation from the Ministry of Finance, effective April 3, 2025.
President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana has appealed to Czech businesses to partner with Ghana in developing tram and light rail systems for Accra and Kumasi, as part of his government’s $10 billion “Big Push” infrastructure programme.
The Mining in Motion 2025 Summit has announced the participation of Hon. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Ghana as a keynote speaker.
Africa faces a chronic shortage of oral health workers due to underinvestment, leaving millions of people without adequate care and vulnerable to preventable oral diseases, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) workforce fact sheet on oral health released today.
As part of efforts to ensure the prompt actualization of agreements with the People’s Republic of China, the Federal Government of Nigeria convened an inter-ministerial meeting to strengthen the implementation of agreements reached during the 2024 FOCAC Summit and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to China.
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has criticised Nigeria’s import ban on 25 categories of goods, claiming that the restrictions limit market access for American exporters.
The United States imported $643.1m worth of goods from Nigeria in the first two months of 2025, just a month before the implementation of new tariffs by the Trump administration,
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says it is concerned about deteriorating media safety amid surging violence in Haiti, in which at least one journalist was kidnapped and two were almost lynched.