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WASHINGTON, DC – According to the International Monetary Fund’s Articles of Agreement, the Fund’s main purpose is to facilitate the balanced growth of international trade and thereby promote high ...

As of April 30, 2025, Nigeria has fully repaid the $3.4 billion emergency funding it received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April 2020 under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI).

International Monetary Fund (IMF) ,has confirmed that Nigeria has fully repaid about US$3.4 billion loan it got in April 2020 under the Rapid Financing Instrument to help alleviate the impact of ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has removed Nigeria from its list of debtor-countries. In a report, titled, “Total IMF Credit Outstanding – Movement from May 01, 2025 to May 06, 2025,” obtained ...

The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has questioned the rationale by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for downgrading its economic growth projection for Nigeria in 2025 from 3.2 ...

In a renewed push to accelerate Nigeria’s human capital growth, Vice President Kashim Shettima has called for stronger international collaboration and data-driven strategies to advance the ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used a gathering of finance chiefs from around the world to stress that central banks must be shielded from politics to ensure they can focus on keeping ...

Although Bessent said the IMF and the World Bank are “falling short,” he did not call for the U.S. to withdraw from the institutions, as some conservatives had advocated in a Project 2025 proposal ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward Nigeria’s economic growth projections for 2025 and 2026, to 3.0 for 2025 and 2.7 for 2026 as global ...

The IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor projected that global public debt will grow 2.8 percentage points to 95.1% of global GDP in 2025. It said the upward trend was likely to continue, reaching 99.6% of ...

International Monetary Fund has warned that Nigeria’s macroeconomic outlook remains clouded by major uncertainty, even as it acknowledged recent reforms aimed at stabilising the economy and ...