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Nigeria’s current account surplus increased 68% to $7.54 billion

Nigeria’s current account surplus increased by 67.9 percent to $7.54 billion in the second quarter of 2026, according to interim balance of payments data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This latest figure represents a significant increase from the $4.49 billion recorded in the first quarter of 2026. The figure is also higher than the $5.17 billion recorded in …

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Exclusive: Moses Usor replaces injured Femi Azeez in Super Eagles squad

Austrian LASK winger Moses Usor has for the first time received an invitation to the Nigerian senior team for the upcoming AFCON qualifying matches later this month, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. Nigeria will participate in the AFCON 2027 qualifiers by opening their campaign at home against Madagascar on the 25th, before traveling to meet Guinea-Bissau in Morocco four days later. …

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Why the UN General Assembly still matters

Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – both the bad and the ugly. Ahead of the General Assembly’s high-level week, he sat down with UN News to discuss why the Assembly remains an important platform for international diplomacy – and why, despite a changing …

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