Describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the conclusion of certain missions (official staff visits, in most cases to member countries). Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually ...

Renowned academic and former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Peter Okebukola, says Nigeria has emerged one of the frontrunners in Africa for the ...

One of the most tensive issues that has confronted the Nigerian economy for the past twenty-five years has been the cost of energy, for the operation of the economy. It has been electricity, petrol, ...

Impunity is one of the biggest single obstacles to the reduction or eradication of torture and other serious abuses by police in Nigeria. The fact that in all but a handful of largely symbolic cases ...

The transition from military rule in 1999 marked the first real efforts or opportunity to undertake reform of the Nigerian Police Force. The Police Affairs Minister made a series of announcements in ...

Nigeria has the world’s highest deforestation rate of primary forests according to revised deforestation figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Between 2000 ...

The Federal Government will tomorrow take a major step towards realizing its objective of raising the country's crude oil reserves and production substantially when it calls bids for oil blocks under ...