Yusuf Tuggar, Nigerian Foreign affairs minister on Wednesday said Nigerians dwelling on the allegedly forged Chicago State University certificate President Bola Tinubu presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were focusing on frivolous issues on which the government would “not be wasting their time.” The minister debunked the claim that the presidency and the entire administration were bothered about the controversy about the academic records of President Bola Tinubu from the Chicago State University (CSU).
The floating exchange rate regime has caused about 50% depreciation of the Nigerian currency to other basket of currencies and will impact the monetary poverty index in the country. President Tinubu’s administration has borrowed over $1.5 billion from World Bank in the past three months to fund women’s development program. This is not a sustainable borrowing based on the current fiscal crisis in which Nigeria is spending over 77% of it Internally-Generated-Revenue on debt servicing.
French President Emmanuel Macron says France’s ambassador to Niger is staying at his post despite being ordered to leave the country by Niger’s
French President Emmanuel Macron says France’s ambassador to Niger is staying at his post despite being ordered to leave the country by Niger’s new military leaders. Macron told a gathering of French ambassadors in Paris Monday that Ambassador Sylvain Itte “is remaining despite pressure.” He also rejected concerns that standing up to the junta in…