Kwara Govt Secures World Bank N887m Projects Fund   The Executive Secretary of Kwara’s Health Care Development Agency, Dr Nusirat Elelu, has said the state has secured World Bank’s funding to support infrastructure upgrade in at least one primary healthcare facility in each of the 193...

World Bank: 28.9million Nigerians, Others Depend on Food Assistance According to World Bank, twenty-eight million nine hundred thousand people living in Nigeria and other West and Central African countries depend on emergency food assistance for survival. This is despite an above-average yield in the 2022/23 agricultural...

As Yahaya Bello’s Huge Investments in Health Earn Another World Bank Dividend By Hafsat Ibrahim Universal access to healthcare is an essential human right that is critical to sustainable development because time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognise and appreciate until they...

Technical Problems Responsible For Oil Production Decline - World Bank   The World Bank has stated that technical problems, insecurity, rising production costs, theft, lack of payment discipline in joint ventures, etc. were responsible for the 40 per cent decline of Nigeria’s oil production last year. The...

2023/2024: World Bank Projects Weaker Economic Growth for Nigeria Nigeria's economy has once again been downgraded by the World Bank Group, largely due to a weak oil sector. On Tuesday, the bank published its Global Economic Prospects report, citing that Nigeria’s economy will further decelerate to 2.9...

A Second Look at Yahaya Bello's World Bank Transparency Award, by Nafisat Bello   Governor Yahaya Bello's work rate, tight schedule and the fact that he has packed his cabinet with equally youthful commissioners and aides are responsible for the way Kogi state is often in...