Posted on October 14, 2014 by iMFdirect By iMFdirect editors What a week it’s been.  Practical and existential questions on how to do good and be good for the sake of the global economy and finance dominated the seminars at the IMF’s Annual Meetings in Washington. Our editors fanned out […]

The Federal Government has issued for subscription three set of re-opening bonds in a move to raise up to N73.6bn, according to a statement by the Debt Management Office. The DMO said it would raise N18.61bn through the 13.05 per cent FGN August 2016 (three-year bond), N30bn through the 14.20 […]

The Federal Government’s fiscal operations for the second quarter of this year resulted in a deficit of N329.37bn, compared with the quarterly budget and the preceding quarter’s deficit of N241.1bn and N202.7bn, respectively. During the period, the retained revenue was N864.15bn as against total expenditure of N1.193tn, according to the […]