CBN Pumps $195m into Forex Market
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pumped $195 million into key segments of the foreign exchange (forex) market. The forex inflow, which came on the first day of business…
Nigeria earns N48trn from exports to Europe, Asia- NBS
Dr Yemi Kale NBS Statistician General Dr Yemi Kale NBS Statistician General Nigeria exported goods worth N48.70 trillion to Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Oceania in the last four years.…
FEC Approves N2.4bn for NAHCON Plaza
The Federal Executive Council has approved N2.4 billion for the purchase of Abuja Metro Plaza to serve as the Corporate Headquarters of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). NAHCON…
United Nations Earmarks $7.3bn for peacekeeping
The United Nations has earmarked 7.3 billion dollars to fund 13 peacekeeping missions and a logistics support office, diplomats said. The 193-member UN budget committee, cut 600 million dollars from…
CBO: No, seriously, the Senate bill cuts Medicaid spending
There’s a reason that President Trump and his allies have tried their best to claim that the Better Care Reconciliation Act — the Senate GOP health-care bill introduced earlier this…
House spending bill targets military authorization in rebuke to Trump on Syria, ISIS
House appropriators set in motion Thursday a repeal of the congressional authorization underpinning the U.S. military effort against the Islamic State and recent strikes in Syria, a move that serves…
Fox News interrupted the White House briefing to slam Trump’s mean tweets
While CNN and MSNBC were airing remarks by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Fox News was grilling Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel about President Trump’s tweets. How far over…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump has never ‘promoted or encouraged violence.’ She is very wrong.
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks to reporters Thursday. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency) Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was dispatched Thursday to defend President…
Trump gets trolled — again — by Obama’s White House photographer over ‘respect for women’
Barack Obama and President Trump (AFP/Getty Images) As a chorus of Democratic and Republican lawmakers slammed President Trump for “sexist” tweets about MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, a former White House…
If these two Republicans can’t agree, the Senate can’t pass its health-care bill
They came to the Senate together amid less fanfare than some of their 2010 classmates, with lower profiles that didn’t lead to presidential bids. But Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio) and…