Africa Needs $108bn For Infrastructure Financing – Adesina         The President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has urged African leaders to tackle infrastructural challenges as an annual estimate of between $64 and $108bn is required to finance the infrastructural gap. According to a statement...

Nigeria To Host World Summit For Single Market In Africa In 2021         Nigeria will host the World Summit for Single Market in Africa on March 23, 2021, an official has said. Mr Angelo Elosia, the Chairman/Chief Coordinator, Invest in Africa World Summit and Expo said this...

AfDB Attracted $78.8bn Investments To Africa - Adesina     The African Development Bank (AfDB) attracted $78.8 billion investments into Africa in two years, its President Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has said. The continental bank was able to mobilise this investments “through the innovative and groundbreaking Africa Investment Forum...

WTO: Africa’s Chance and the Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Candidacy By Yushau A. Shuaib With quite a reputation behind her, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appears to mean different things to different people across the spaces she has straddled. This is why I paused for a moment of contemplation when...

African Risk Capacity Grants $2.13m to Madagascar for Drought Response   Madagascar Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Agriculture and ARC Partners during the ceremony Johannesburg, South Africa, July 03, 2020 - The Government of Madagascar today received a symbolic cheque in the amount...

World Bank Appoints Two Vice Presidents For Africa   The World Bank has appointed a another Vice President for the Sub-Saharan Africa Region. The region’s portfolio was formally managed by one Vice president, a position occupied by Mr. Hafez Ghanem, an Egyptian and French national. With the new...