22 results
- 19 Sept 2025
Afreximbank Decries $330Bn MSME Financing Gap in Africa
Dr Yemi Kale, Group Chief Economist, Africa Export Import Bank (Afreximbank), has decried that despite micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) constituting over 95 per cent of African businesses,…
- 4 Dec 2025
Afreximbank Taps Nigeria to Lead Africa’s Digital Trade Revolution
Yemi Kale, Afreximbank’s Group Chief Economist, yesterday said that Nigeria is positioned to drive Africa’s transition into a digitally enabled trade ecosystem, arguing that the country’s demographic…
- 13 Nov 2018
No Money, No Unemployment Data- NBS
Nigeria has not released official unemployment data for more than a year because of a lack of money at the statistics office. Bloomberg quoted, Yemi Kale, statistician-general, National Bureau…
- 8 Sept 2014
NBS says Economy Created 2.5m Jobs in Two Years
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday said the Nigerian economy created a total of 2.48 million new jobs between July 2012 and June this year. Dr. Yemi Kale, statistician general for the…
- 16 Dec 2013
NBS Says Inflation Rate Up by 0.1% in November
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on Monday, said inflation rate stood at 7.9 per cent in November, 0.1 per cent higher than the 7.8 per cent recorded in October. The figure is contained in a…
- 28 Jun 2021
NIMC Registers 57.3m Nigerians for NIN
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says only 57.3 million Nigerians have been registered out of 200 million population in the country. Mr Aliyu Aziz, the Director-General, NIMC, said…
- 30 Apr 2014
Economy Nets N6.48tn Investment in 26 months -NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the Nigerian economy attracted an investment of $40.503bn (N6.48tn) within a period of 26 months.] The Bureau stated this in its report signed by Dr Yemi…
- 7 Mar 2019
Experts Urge Firms to Change Strategy on the Use of Data for Growth
Experts in the field of data science have urged business leaders and policy makers in Africa to shift from making intuition-based decisions to data-driven decisions that align with their organisation…
- 27 May 2014
Nigeria’s Economy Created 1.2m Jobs in 2013 -NBS
The Nigerian economy created a total of 1.163 million jobs within the 2013 fiscal year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The jobs, according to the bureau in its latest job creation…
- 30 Jun 2026
FG Mulls National Skills Database to Tackle Unemployment
Federal government has said that it plans to establish a National Skills Database as part of efforts to reduce unemployment, address the growing mismatch between available skills and industry needs,…
- 9 Feb 2026
Ecobank Nigeria to Host Customer Forum on Strengthening Regional Integration for Economic Transformation
Ecobank Nigeria is set to host the second edition of its Customer Forum, at the Ecobank Pan-African Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos. The forum, organised by the bank’s Fixed…
- 18 Jun 2026
AfreximBank Urges Nigeria, Others to Strengthen Continental Trade
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has urged Nigeria and the rest of Africa to strengthen intra-African trade and resilience to protect against geopolitical shocks. In a recently released…
- 25 Apr 2017
NBS Wins Best Public Sector Website Award
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has emerged as the winner of the Best Public Sector website for the year 2016 and 2017. The award was attributed to the manner in which the bureau had…
- 6 Mar 2012
Perils of Endemic Poverty in Nigeria
It is a sad commentary that majority of Nigerians are poor despite the enormous God’s natural resources and her innate potentials. The recent figures by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed…
- 14 Nov 2013
Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Drops By 0.2% – NBS
Nigeria’s inflation rate in October dropped by 0.2 per cent to 7.8 per cent from the 8.0 per cent recorded in September, says the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This was contained in a…
- 18 Nov 2013
World Bank Pledges Support to Nigeria’s Data System
Alain Gaugris, a Senior Statistician, World Bank, has expressed the commitment of the Bank to supporting and positioning Nigerian Statistical System (NSS) to enable it contribute meaningfully to the…
- 6 Apr 2014
Nigeria Becomes 26th Largest Economy in the World
Nigeria has moved up 11 steps to number 26th largest economy globally ahead of South Africa, following the outcome of the reclassification of the based year of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from…
- 9 Apr 2014
Telecoms Star Performer as FG Omits Shipping Sector in Rebased GDP
The telecommunications and information services sector contributed 8.68 percent to the Nigerian economy equivalent to N6.97 trillion ($44.3 billion) out of the total rebased Gross Domestic product…
- 15 May 2014
NBS says Nigeria Records N495Bn Drop in Merchandise Trade
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the country recorded a decrease of N495.3bn in total external merchandise trade from N5.658tn in the third quarter of 2013 to N5.162tn in the fourth…
- 21 Feb 2012
Perils of Endemic Poverty in Nigeria
It is a sad commentary that majority of Nigerians are poor despite the enormous God’s natural resources and her innate potentials. The recent figures by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed…
- 18 Sept 2017
FG Inaugurates Committee to Coordinate Statistical Data in Agencies
The Federal Government has inaugurated a Finance Sectoral Consultative Committee for the effective coordination of statistical data in the ministry of finance and its agencies. Dr. Mahmoud Isa-Dutse,…
- 25 Jun 2025
AfCFTA Positions Africa to Tap into $712bn Digital Trade Market by 2035
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is strategically positioning Africa to tap into a $712 billion digital trade market by 2035, leveraging key partnerships and trade-enabling…