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The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) says the marginal decline in Nigeria’s inflation rate provides cautious optimism for businesses and households, even as persistent risks threaten to reverse the fragile progress. Reacting to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Chamber noted that headline …

By Esther Ososanya U.S. job growth slowed sharply in July, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by just 73,000 jobs, well below the 110,000 forecasted by economists polled by Reuters. The shortfall is even more concerning when paired with a sharp downward revision of June’s data, which now shows only 14,000 jobs were added that month, compared to the previously reported …

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