DESPITE the sharp decline in Philippines’s external debt service burden (DSB) in the 11-month period last year, an analyst warned against being complacent as interest payments are still high. Jonathan ...

Debt servicing in Nigeria outpaced capital expenditure by N3.9tn over the past two years, highlighting growing fiscal pressures on the federal budget, according to a media brief obtained by The PUNCH ...

Nigeria spent about $5.21bn servicing external debt obligations in 2025, accounting for more than 72 per cent of the country’s total international payments during the year, data obtained from the ...

Nigeria’s fiscal pressures have intensified after the Federal Government spent about N3.9tn more on servicing debt than on ...