Nigeria’s Speaker of the House, Abbas Tajudeen has warned that the nation’s public debt, which reached N149.39 trillion (US$97 billion) in Q1 2025, has exceeded the statutory 40% debt-to-GDP ceiling, hitting 52%. Speaking at the 11th Annual Conference of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees in Abuja, he highlighted the threat to fiscal…
Report says Nigerian states spent approximately N235.58 billion on external debt servicing in the first half of 2025, marking a 68.4% increase approximately(N95.65 billion) from N139.92 billion in the same period of 2024. This surge underscores the growing pressure of dollar-denominated debt repayments amid the naira’s depreciation. While External debt payments are managed through an…