Disaster-prone developing nations, including Bangladesh and Indonesia, are exposed to crippling losses when storms, floods or earthquakes strike because they suffer from a dangerous lack of...
The Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) in the country have invested N1.49 trillion in Treasury Bills. The monthly report released by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) on...
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has included 9,125 ex-workers of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), and its mobile subsidiary, MTEL, to its monthly pension payroll. A...
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has approved 3, 280 applications for payment of retirement benefit under life annuity plan. The commission, in its 2018 first quarter...
The world’s population is set to grow by 2.2 billion between 2018 and 2050, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has said. UNFPA, in its ‘State of...
Multilateral lenders account for 35 per cent of Africa’s total external debt, and 32 per cent by private lenders. China accounts for 20 per cent of...
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) says it is not against the upward review of the minimum wage. The Chairman of the Forum, Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved six Transaction Parties as adviser to the Federal Government on the issuance of $2.78 billion Eurobonds and other securities...
The World Bank has said that Africa is home to the largest number of extreme poor people in the world. Nigeria was recently described as the...
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has launched its African Masters in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) at its AIMS Rwanda Campus in partnership with Facebook and Google....
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the Consumer Price Index, (CPI) which measured inflation for September increased to 11.28 per cent (year-on-year) from 11.23 per...
China is likely to boost imports from African countries as it seeks new sources of commodities in the wake of a trade war with the United...
At the conclusion of the 2018 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, The Nigeria delegation led by the Minister of Finance Ms Zainab Ahmed had an interactive session...
By Roberto Azevêdo World Trade Organisation The contrast between the global economic situation and the current state of international trade relations is striking. On the one...
On behalf of Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Republic of South...