Nigeria, April 25 -- On Thursday, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, advised Nigeria and other African countries to strengthen their fundamentals to withstand the shocks and tensions of the US tariff war with other economies of the world, especially China.

Ms Georgieva noted that for oil producers like Nigeria, a lot can still be done on the fiscal side to have strength amid heightened global uncertainty and falling oil prices.

The IMF boss made the call in her Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington.

Speaking specifically to Nigeria's budgetary concerns amid tariff tension, low oil prices, and global uncertainty, ...