According to World Bank economist, Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, “the mobile platform is emerging as the single most powerful way to extend economic opportunities and key services to millions of people."

The Federal Government and the World Bank are working closely to review the nation’s privatised mining enterprises, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi, has disclosed.

Currently across Sub-Saharan Africa, tax revenue accounts for less than a fifth of the continent’s GDP, so there is no doubt that there has to be some scale up in that space.

The objective of that intervention is to provide an opportunity for developing countries like Nigeria to understand and enhance adherence to the practice of Social Protection and non-discriminatory labour laws. 

The World Bank announced Saturday a new program to mobilize funds quickly against virulent disease outbreaks after the world was caught unprepared in the 2014 Ebola disaster in West Africa.

Five months after the 2015 fiscal calendar, a report from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has put the Federal Government’s retained revenue in the period at N3.43 trillion.

The cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries could rise to between $280 and $500 billion per year by 2050, a figure that is four to five times greater than previous estimates, according to a new United Nations ...

On how it could be of benefit to farmers, Adeoya said: “Post-harvest losses in Nigeria agricultural sector is high, hence, the need to reduce this trend.

WAAPP is a World Bank sponsored programme under the auspices of ECOWAS aimed at boosting agricultural productivity and enhancing diplomatic ties in the sub-region.

WAAPP is a World Bank sponsored programme in the auspices of ECOWAS aimed at boosting agricultural productivity and enhancing diplomatic ties in the sub region.