{"id":243152,"date":"2026-06-20T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/nigerias-improved-foreign-reserve-good-news-critics-dont-want-to-hear-onanuga\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:09:14","slug":"nigerias-improved-foreign-reserve-good-news-critics-dont-want-to-hear-onanuga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/nigerias-improved-foreign-reserve-good-news-critics-dont-want-to-hear-onanuga\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Improved Foreign Reserve \u2018Good News Critics Don\u2019t Want to Hear\u2019 \u2014 Onanuga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<p><!-- .entry-header-outer \/--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, has said opposition presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, are unwilling to acknowledge what he described as positive developments in Nigeria\u2019s economy, particularly the country\u2019s rising foreign reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga disclosed that Nigeria\u2019s foreign reserves climbed to $51.04 billion as of June 18, describing it as the highest level recorded in 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the last comparable level was in January 2009, when the reserves stood at $50.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, obtained by Abia Radio News Onanuga said, \u201cNigeria\u2019s foreign reserves rose to $51.04 billion on June 18, the highest level in 17 years. In January 2009, the reserves stood at $50.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the good news Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and other presidential candidates don\u2019t want to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as they are concerned, President <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>has done nothing since he came to office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet stubborn facts of the administration\u2019s solid achievements keep hitting them in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that critics of the administration were ignoring what he described as tangible progress under President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, has said opposition presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, are unwilling to acknowledge what he described as positive developments in Nigeria\u2019s economy, particularly the country\u2019s rising foreign reserves. Onanuga disclosed that Nigeria\u2019s foreign reserves climbed to $51.04 billion as of June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[3576,3126,361],"class_list":["post-243152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-foreign-reserves","tag-onanuga","tag-opposition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/onanuga.jpg.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}