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The World Bank senior economist says neglect of the agricultural sector has proven to be a disaster and calamity for ...

Continued dependence on oil revenue a disaster, the official says.

Since 1993, when TICAD started, Africa has received numerous grants and technical assistance.

The firms were blacklisted for violating the bank's fraud and corruption policy in their contracting processes.

The latest culprits exclude the six Chinese firms earlier reported exclusively by this newspapers on Monday to have similarly been ...

The bank says 60 per cent of its programmes were implemented at the state level and 40 per cent by ...

The six states slated to benefit from the project are Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Kogi, Enugu and Cross River.

The firms and individuals will be ineligible to participate in contracts financed or administered by the World Bank and African ...

The bank however says there is need to address some issues to prevent the country from being a fragile state.

The states were selected based on their potential in agricultural production.

For the first time in years, the World Bank is putting cash straight into the treasury.

Cyclone Idai killed over a thousand people and destroyed vast infrastructure in the three countries.

The event is organised by the secretariat of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

Finance minister Zainab Ahmed says Nigeria's borrowings are within fiscal limits.

The bank says the investment will increase African workers’ productivity by 13 per cent.

The Fund says subsidy payment has consumed about $5.2 trillion globally from 2015 till date.

Nigeria, South Africa and Angola, which make up about 60 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s annual economic output, were all ...

The new five-year term will begin on April 9.

This amount is equivalent to about 1.07 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Haruna Mohammed passed away on Friday at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, USA.

Some lawmakers alleged plans by the Ministries of Finance and Industry, Trade and Investment to return the money to World ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says is she nominated for the World Bank job, she would vie for the position.

Mrs Ezekwesili pulled out of the presidential race on Thursday.

Mr Akabueze says the way the law is designed is capable of killing growth in the local economy.