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How Competitive is the Nigerian Economy Compared to its Peers in Africa?
According to the WEF, a country’s performance on the overall GCI results as well as each of its components is reported as a ‘progress score’ on a 0-to-100 scale, where 100 represents the…
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Q3 2019 GDP: Nigeria Records its Second Highest Quarterly Real Growth Rate Since 2016
Nominal and Real GDP Explained The GDP (a measure of the size of an economy) is the monetary value of all goods and services produced in a country during a given period of…
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The Zimbabwean Stock Exchange is Africa’s Best Performing Stock Exchange
As at Tuesday 12th November 2019 therefore, the Zimbawean Stock Exchange Industrial Index has returned more money for its investors than any other stock exchange in Africa as its Year to Date returns…
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Nigeria’s Northern Region Records 49% Financial Inclusion Rate as Opposed to 77% Inclusion Rate in the South
In terms of mobile usage, the EFInA report of 2018 shows that 3.08 million (representing 3.1% of the adult population) have both mobile money and bank account while 0.3% adults have only mobile…
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Nigeria’s Tier-1 Banks Made Interest Income of N1.52 trillion and PAT of N521.92 billion in Q3 2019
The Q3 financial statement of the five banks reveal they earned N1.52 trillion on charging interest in the first 9 months of 2019 and they made a Profit After Tax of N521.92bln in…
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More Than 90% of the 774 Local Government in Nigeria Exist to Only Pay Salaries
There have been different views on the activities of the 774 local government in Nigeria as the need to cut down expenditure arises while ensuring growth among all areas of the country. This…
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Performance Review of Nigeria’s Vision 20: 2020 (2009- 2020)
This article is inspired by the column which appeared on Punch Newspaper titled: “Vision 2020: Momento of a Failed Project”. It therefore aims to give a detailed report card of how Nigeria has…
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The World, Africa, West Africa and Nigeria’s Economy in 2018
In 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) put the value of all goods and services produced in the world at $84.74 trillion with the United States as the largest economy in the world…
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Demystifying Nigeria’s Conscious Attempt to Keep a Low Debt Profile as Debt Servicing Becomes Worrisome
This research compares the debt figures with global thresholds as well as with the key debt management framework of the Debt Management Office so as to know the debt path of the country…
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Download Full Project- Impact of External Debt on Economic Growth
The main objective of this study is to examine the effects of the various sources of public or external debt on economic growth in Nigeria and highlight the public debts which are more…
