The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) has opened a Risk Sharing Facility, as one of the bank’s gender-focused programmes which seeks to accelerate growth and employment creation across African economies, by closing the financing…
Ndidi Nwuneli, founder of LEAP Africa and co-founder of Sahel Consulting, has been appointed to the board of trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation. According to a statement released by the foundation, Nwuneli was appointed on the board alongside Agnes Binagwaho,…
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE NIGERIA, NETHERLANDS PLEDGE STRONGER PARTNERSHIPS ON TRADE, INVESTMENTS, SECURITY President Muhammadu Buhari and Prime Minister Mark Rutte met on Tuesday in Abuja to discuss bilateral relations and agreed that Nigeria and the Netherlands would continue to…
At least 1.534 trillion naira has been received by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) since its inception in 2001. This amount was allocated to the NDDC for expenditures on projects to reverse the huge infrastructural deficit in the nine…
The African Development Bank has supported a concession agreement for the construction of a high-speed railway in Accra, Ghana’s capital. The signing was witnessed by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo; Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group and other…
Femi Otedola, billionaire entrepreneur, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity, to support its intervention in the north-east. This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history. “My father, Mr. Femi Otedola,…
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Africa have pledged to ensure policy delivery and implement decisions reached by African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). Dr. Mithika Mwenda, executive director, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), said that the CSOs would…
South African consumers have become more negative about their banks this year as they tire of overcharging and account fraud through unauthorised debits. These are the findings of the South African Banking Sentiment Index 2019 published by BrandsEye on November…
Nigerian bookstore chain, Rovingheights, will host Olivier van Beemen, Dutch journalist and author of the investigative work Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleased, to an evening of book reading and signing in Nigeria. The literary event scheduled for Tuesday, 29th…
The General Manager National Theatre, Sunday Baba has called on Nigerians to always participate in any show where their culture and traditions are been displayed saying “Oil has failed the nation.” He made this known on Wednesday during the ongoing…
