Nigeria’s public debt stock surged to N134.3 trillion ($91.3 billion) by the end of the second quarter of 2024. This was an increase of 10.35% from the N121.7 trillion ($91.5 billion) recorded in the first quarter and announced by the Debt Management Office (DMO).
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The Director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has debunked a claim that she facilitated a $57.5 billion loan to the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE).
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) has released its Air Quality Index, which saw Agege and Surulere topping the list of cities with the most hazardous and very unhealthy air quality respectively in the state.
The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) doctors are forced to pay an accommodation fee of N200,000 before they can secure housing at the hospital’s House Officers’ Quarters.
Syngenta Group has once again secured its position among the world’s top five employers and as the #1 agricultural employer in the 2024 Science Careers Top Employers Survey.
The Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Cletus Shurkuk has said the state had recorded 20 cases of cholera, resulting in two fatalities.
The government of Cross River State has discovered two new cases of Mpox in Calabar Municipality, raising the number identified in the council to five.
The Sokoto State House of Assembly has endorsed the continuation of subsidised food supply and other commodities to people of the state.
Stakeholders in Sokoto State are calling for mandatory premarital screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) to address an increasing number of cases affecting married couples across the region.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, is a very interesting player in the political arena and often sets out to do the opposite of what rational actors would do to surprise, and hopefully, defeat the enemy. This is seen clearly in his African policy. Over the past few years, a very successful campaign attacking French neo-colonialism has been ongoing and led to a coup d’état that produced the result of throwing out France and its military bases in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. This anti-French movement continues to grow in the other Francophone African countries and more hits against France are…