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Nigeria
Kaduna Seek Dangote’s Partnership For Infrastructural Development
Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufai, has revealed that talks are on-going between the State Government and the management of Dangote Group towards developing infrastructure of the state on a partnership level. Speaking yesterday, at the close of 38th Kaduna International Trade Fair, El-rufai extolled the partnership between the Dangote ...
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Nigeria
CBN‘ll Ensure Flexibility On Export Proceeds Policy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said, it would look into ways of giving more flexibility to the policy on utilization of export proceeds. The deputy director, Trade and Exchange Department of the CBN, Olu Vincent made this known at the Guaranty Trust Bank Plc’s 2017 non-oil export workshop ...
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Nigeria
Nigerian Economy: Green Bond To The Rescue
With huge infrastructural gap and inadequate finance, Nigeria is faced with the onerous task of stable economic development in pace with its growing population. In this report, OLUSHOLA BELLO writes that the move to launch Africa’s first-ever climate-related bond by Nigeria may open up another vast opportunity to develop major ...
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Nigeria
Facebook offering digital training to Nigeria’s SMEs
Facebook recently announced plans to “Boost Your Business” through a series of free training sessions designed to help Nigerian small business owners understand how to leverage digital platforms for growth from the 8th of March 2017. According to reports, the Facebook training sessions will be facilitated by trainers led by ...
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Nigeria
Good Managers, Not Restructuring Will Fix Nigeria – Dolapo
Hon EnitanBadruDolapo is representing Lagos island Federal constituency of Lagos State in the House of Representatives. In interview with RUTH CHOJI, the lawmaker speaks on the economy, the state of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) an the quest for national unity. How worrisome is the state of the economy ...
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Cina Giappone
China trims 2017 growth target, warns against trade controls
China’s top economic official trimmed its growth target and warned Sunday of dangers from global pressure for trade controls as Beijing tries to build a consumer-driven economy and reduce reliance on exports and investment. In a speech to the national legislature, Premier Li Keqiang promised more steps to cut surplus ...
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Kenya
Czech woman makes annual pilgrimage to Iten for the memories
Evgeniia Zhgir’s partner Zane Edward Branson died while running at his favourite camp in Iten and was buried there. She has since been travelling to Kenya from the Czech Republic every year to promote the athletics project that was dear to him
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Kenya
Kenya: IEBC submits polls regulations for approval
The Independent, Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has finally unveiled regulations that will operationalise the Elections Law.
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Kenya
Kenya: Retail giants feeling the pinch amid rapid expansion as new rivals pick up sales
Two of Kenya's largest retail supermarkets have closed two of their stores within a fortnight while the third one is still struggling to sell its assets to turn around its fortunes, exposing the woes facing the retail industry.
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El Salvador
El Gobierno de El Salvador busca instruir a familias en manejo de finanzas
El programa Educación Financiera tiene el propósito de fomentar una cultura financiera "que es importante para las familias, pero también para el país", dijo el gobernante durante el mensaje dirigido a sus invitados.