Amid recession, World Bank says GDP in Western, Central Africa to grow 2.1% in 2021, 3.0% in 2022
From Joseph Inokotong, Abuja The World Bank has projected Real GDP in the Western and Central Africa subregion to grow ...
Tag: sub-saharan africa
Nigeria records 155,417 COVID-19 cases in 1 year
(NAN) The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 341 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19, bringing the total number ...
World Bank projects 2.2% GDP growth for Nigeria in 2019
Nigeria’s real GDP growth will expand by 2.2 per cent in 2019, the World Bank said in its annual Global ...
Funding 2019 budget with diaspora remittances
It is clear that Nigeria’s Diaspora remittances for 2017 can fund 2019 budget and pay part of Nigeria’s foreign debt ...
UN needs $12.3b for sub-Saharan Africa conflict, climate change
The United Nations says it needs more than US$9 billion (S$12.3 billion) to fund its humanitarian work in sub-Saharan Africa ...
Nigeria ranked 3rd most terrorised global nation
In the latest report released Wednesday, Iraq is ranked first, a position it has held since 2014. Afghanistan has ranked ...
Loan portfolio’ll gulp N400m of our new funds – Okafor, May & Baker boss
"About 400 million will be used to offset part of our current loan portfolio of about N950 million while the ...
Corruption, babies and poverty
Mr. Bill Gates is wrong to say that babies of Africa are to be blamed for the spread of poverty ...
World Bank cuts Nigeria, Africa’s growth forecasts
The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa in 2018 to 2.7 per cent, down from an ...
World Bank forecasts 2.7% growth for sub-Saharan Africa in 2018
NAN The World Bank has cut its forecast for growth of sub-Saharan Africa in 2018 to 2.7 per cent, down ...
