Foreign Investment Into Nigeria Plunges By 43% – UN report Foreign direct investment in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, plunged by 43 per cent to $2bn, according to a United Nations report. Reuters reported on Thursday that investors were put off by a dispute between the...

The pervasive gender gap in economic activities is constraining the African continent from achieving its full economic potential, averaging a loss of about $95 billion annually or $580 billion in sub-Saharan Africa since 2010. This was contained in the Africa Human Development Report 2016 just...

A report released by the United Nations says Nigeria is in a fix. It said the country had been deeply divided along ethnic, religious and regional lines. It painted a gloomy picture of the country’s economy, noting that most of the development and social indices in...