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These countries are among the slowest to respond to climate change, according to experts.

This comes even as unemployment rate sours. A recent KWS vacancy announcement for 80 slots attracted 5,000 applicants.

Plateau to benefit from N8bn World Bank COVID-19 economic stimulus fund Plateau to benefit from N8bn World Bank COVID-19 economic stimulus fund Share Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has inaugurated a steering committee to supervise the implementation of the World Bank-funded COVID-19 Action Economic Stimulus Program for Result (NG-CARES). Speaking during the inauguration of the committee at Little Rayfield Government House Jos, the Governor said the programme was being financed by the World Bank adding that it has fulfilled the requirements to access to $20 million dollars (over 8 bil...

Share The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to obtain $7.031 billion and £995million external loan. Breakdown of the external loan approved showed that the sum of $5.513 billion is to finance Federal Government’s revised 2020 budget deficit, £995 million to improve food security while $1.5 billion is for state governments facing fiscal challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the report, the House had in June 2020 approved the request to obtain the $5.513 billion to finance the proposed revised 2020 budget deficit, but...

Weathering the pandemic and growing the manufacturing sector by MARTIN MWITA •The association calls for reduced cost of doing business, as high taxation remains a burden. •The country’s manufacturing sector has played a major role in the fight against the pandemic, with the local production of PPEs. As the second quarter of 2021 unfolds, what is the state of the manufacturing sector? At the beginning of the year, we were optimistic that we would see economic recovery after being hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic last year. Currently, our economy is in a frail state–the...