Tinubu Seeks Senate Approval for Fresh N1.15trn Domestic Loan to Fund 2025 Budget Deficit Akpabio: Part of borrowing will be used to pay local contractors Red chamber sets up panel to probe multi-billion-dollar railway projects under Buhari Naira strengthens at official FX market as Nigeria moves ahead with $2.3bn Eurobond plan Stock market drops further by N611.9bn on cautious trading
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President Bola Tinubu has trillion borrowing from the This comes as the Senate railway projects executed under written to the Senate seeking domestic debt market to finance yesterday, resolved to conduct a former President Muhammadu approval for a fresh N1.15 the deficit in the 2025 budget. full-scale investigation into the Buhari, following persistent
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L-R: Commandant, Police College, Ikeja, Lagos, AIG Omolara Oloruntola; Governor of Enugu State and Chairman, National Economic Council Committee on the Revamp of Police and Other Security Training Institutions, Dr. Peter Mbah; and Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, during the committee’s tour of training facilities in Lagos, yesterday PHOTO: Office of the governor, Enugu State