BOI Supports COVID-19 Hard-hit Sectors   The Bank of Industry is reviewing its strategic priorities to ensure continuous support for enterprises, especially those hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, it is deepening penetration in agro-processing, food processing, technology, healthcare and pharmaceuticals to stimulate economic recovery and growth. At...

COVID-19’ll Cost Nigeria, Others $236.7bn GDP – AfDB     The outbreak of coronavirus in Africa could cost Nigeria, Togo and other countries on the continent $236.7bn in their cumulative Gross Domestic Product, the African Development Bank said on Tuesday. It said this in its report on African...

Stocks Suffer Setback To Rising Covid-19, Forex Illiquidity   Nigerian Stock market suffered another week of losses on rising coronavirus, COVID-19 cases in the country and the persisting Foreign Exchange, Forex illiquidity in the market. Consequently, investors lost over N257 billion for the five trading days last...

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...

Zoom-Webinar for PR Engagement in the Covid-19 Era By Victor Agi   As the world grapples with the novel corona virus (covid-19), and scientists, equally working round the clock to discover vaccines for treatment, the alternate direction that most economies are towing is in how they can...

COVID-19 and NITDA’s Bridging of The Learning Gap By Mubarak Umar   The disruptive outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, alias COVID-19, has altered a lot of things and affected our socio-economic lifestyles in more ways than one. Globally, areas of human endeavour, from healthcare to sporting...