Africa

Ghana Export-Import (EXIM) Bank has embarked on a GH¢ 30 million “Coconut for Life” project targeted at increasing the country’s coconut production. Under the project, 50,000 to one million nuts …

Egypt’s unemployment rate stabilized at 7.2 percent of the total labor force during the second quarter of 2022, on a quarter on quarter basis, according to the state-statistic body. The …

Egypt’s total debt service surged 105.76% year-on-year during the third quarter of the fiscal year 2021/2022, recording $6.292 billion, according to data released by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE). Quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), …

The Egyptian government is preparing a draft bill to be presented to the Cabinet soon to amend some provisions of the Universal Health Insurance (UHI) Law to deduce the mandatory …

Commerce between India and Nigeria totaled $14.95 billion in 2021. Gangadharan Balasubramanian, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria disclosed this during the 76th independence day of India,  in Abuja. Even …

The Nigerian equity market on Monday started the week’s trading with mixed sentiments as a loss in Presco and 16 others drove the market lower by N18 billion. Also, Nigeria’s …

Nigeria’s electricity supply crisis could worsen from tomorrow as the organised labour has directed workers in the power sector to down tools and commence an indefinite strike over pending labour …

The Bank of Industry (BoI) Nigeria has completed a landmark €1 billion Guaranteed Senior Loan Facility to further enhance its capacity to deliver on its mandate. According to the bank, …

The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS) has said that transactions done on the Point of Sales (PoS) terminals across Nigeria rose by N1.05 trillion from N3.56 trillion in the first seven …

The Naira on Monday depreciated against the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, exchanging at N430. The figure represented a decrease of 0.09 per cent compared with the N429.62 …