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20 Dec
Pause for a moment and imagine what Nigeria or other Africa countries can do with an extra $90 billion a year.
20 Dec
The Public Finance Management Academy for Africa (PFMA), an initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has graduated 51 participants in the first cohort of the capacity building for finance and debt management across the continent.
19 Dec
United Bank for Africa (UBA) has received a $175 million financial package from the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Group for enhancing its support to the private sector and financing of Nigeria’s infrastructure development This facility comprises a $100 million in long-term senior debt, $50 million of trade finance medium-term senior debt and a $25 million…
9 Dec
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has called on African leaders to create quality jobs for its teeming unemployed youths to stem the trend of brain-drain bedeviling the continent.
7 Dec
The President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina will on Friday, 8th December, 2023 deliver the Convocation Lecture at the Second Veritas University Digital Innovations Exhibition and 12th Convocation Lecture in Abuja.
6 Dec
A United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report on critical mineral trade flows in electric car batteries has revealed the huge opportunity in the value chain for Nigeria and other mineral-rich developing countries.
3 Dec
To gain the respect of developing countries, Africa must turn itself into a global powerhouse in food and agriculture, by taking advantage of its vast natural resources to develop its economies and transform the lives of the people.
29 Nov
The inability of Nigeria to feed itself in the face of rising population and over $6.7 trillion natural resources may increase the food import burden to $110 billion in the next two years, the President of African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said yesterday.
27 Nov
African Development Bank (AfDB) has signified intention to loan Nigeria $134 million as an integral part of the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and AgroPocket (NAGS-AP) Project.
24 Nov
Nigeria and African countries face significant capacity gaps in macroeconomic modeling, despite the huge strides they have made in terms of forecasting, analysis and effective policy management, a new African Development Bank (AfDB) Group study has said.
19 Nov
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has inaugurated the Bank’s Maiden report on “Benchmark Macroeconomic Models for Effective Policy Management in Africa”.
19 Nov
Governors of states in the North West region of the country have solicited the support of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) to strengthen cooperation and unlock the country’s vast agricultural potential.
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