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President Biden needs to 'Build Back Better' on Africa | Opinion Rosa Whitaker , President and CEO, The Whitaker Group On 5/25/21 at 7:00 AM EDT In his first major foreign policy address, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared the key priority of the Biden agenda—"a more stable, inclusive global economy" that "delivers security and opportunity for as many Americans as possible in the long term." In an irreversibly interdependent world, Africa is central to achieving this vision. Over the past decade, Africa has accounted for a third of world population growth and is n...

Inside Africa’s vaccination programme negotiations The African Export–Import Bank’s director of legal affairs Samallie Kiyingi discusses the structured finance solutions behind the scheme to vaccinate the African continent

Former chairman of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika has said that the decision to sack reinstated Managing Director of the bank, Adesola Adeduntan, was done in the best interest of the institution. Awosika in a statement released via her Instagram account, said the decision to end the tenure of Adeduntan as the bank’s Managing Director was taken in the bank’s best interests. “In October 2010, I was appointed to join the board of First Bank of Nigeria and appointed the board of its startup FBN Life Insurance Limited a few months later. “Together with the rest of our team...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Mr. Emefiele gave the challenge during a lecture on “Jump-Starting Agricultural Revolution: The CBN Experience” in Makurdi. He said the university community has a responsibility to foster research to enhance yields per hectare by farmers and reduce other constraints, such as access to markets and storage facilities for their produce. He said ‘‘The CBN is eager to see how the university community graduates can leverage their knowledge and research to come up with breakthrough solutions that would improve the productivity of Nigeria’s agricultural sector.�...

Despite the nation’s rising debt profile, the Senate, last week, approved the federal government’s request for another $1.5bn, €995m external loans, reports Udora Orizu On April 21, the Senate gave the federal government the nod to borrow a total of $2.7 billion out of the $5.5 billion external borrowing request sent to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in May, 2020. Buhari had last May requested the Senate to approve the external borrowing to finance various priority projects of the federal government and to support the state governments facing fiscal challen...