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A London jury acquitted former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke of all six bribery-related charges after a five-month trial.
Prosecutors alleged she received luxury benefits from oil industry figures, but she consistently denied any wrongdoing.
The verdict brings to an end an 11-year...
Capital market operators and economists have urged the Federal Government to avoid expensive foreign loans and a VAT increase as it weighs the IMF's latest policy recommendations.
Finance Minister Olawale Edun on Tuesday warned against subsidy reversals at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, urging developing nations to hold reform gains as global shocks intensify pressure to abandon hard-won policy progress.
The International Monetary Fund cut Nigeria's 2026 growth forecast to 4.1 percent, down from 4.4 percent, citing higher commodity costs and shipping disruptions.
Nigeria's power subsidy obligation reached N418.79 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, a decline of N39.96 billion from the third quarter, according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Aliko Dangote's Lekki refinery turned Nigeria into a net petrol exporter last month, ending decades in which Africa's largest oil producer sent crude abroad only to import finished fuel.
Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe secured Fidelity Bank's recapitalization with a N259 billion private placement of ordinary shares on Dec. 31, 2025, pushing eligible capital to N564.5 billion and clearing the Central Bank of Nigeria's N500 billion threshold.
Nigeria's electricity regulator says the federal government absorbed N418.79bn in power subsidies in the fourth quarter of 2025, as sector losses exceeded N300bn.
Energy economist Prof. Ken Ife on Monday rejected World Bank fuel importation recommendations in its latest Nigeria Development Update, warning they violate the Petroleum Industry Act and undermine Nigeria's push for energy self-reliance.
Capital market operators and economists have urged the Federal Government to avoid expensive foreign loans and a VAT increase as it weighs the IMF's latest policy recommendations.
A Lagos Federal High Court has ordered Virgin Atlantic to pay Joy Ezetah $5,906.50 in damages, plus costs, after it denied her boarding on a Lagos-London flight.
The Federal Government has identified 470 gazetted grazing reserves to resettle pastoralists and end open grazing and the roaming of cattle across Nigeria's cities.