Tag: world bank

“If you talk about ownership of private jets, Nigeria will be among the first 10 countries in the world. Yet, ...

“The World Bank has designated ten Nigerian Public and Private Universities as Centres of Excellence for outstanding research programmes in ...

“Women and children in Nigeria spend hours each day carrying water for their family’s use.” The World Bank has approved ...

The report said Nigeria and four other countries are home to nearly 760 million of the world’s poor. Nigeria is ...

Nigeria’s last GDP rebasing was done in 1990 Barely days after being listed by the World Bank as one of ...

This column is kiss-ing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala this week. It will in fact be the shortest piece I’ve ever offered ...

Minister faults World Bank's classification of Nigeria based on large population. The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday reacted ...

The World Bank is to raise its lending capacity to about $300 billion Amid plans by the Federal Government to ...

The APC spokesperson also criticised the NOI Polls. The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied poaching any member of Nigeria’s ...

The grant would be used to establish an African Centre of Excellence. The Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has received ...

A World Bank official said Tuesday that 100 million Nigerians are extremely poor The Nigerian presidency has faulted a report ...

At least 13 other African countries had better business climates for investors than Nigeria The various reform programmes initiated and ...

Anambra, Bauchi, and Ekiti states were chosen for the project. The Federal Government on Friday launched the State Education Programme ...

The international agency rated Nigeria a BB minus. The Standard and Poors, an international rating agency, has said that Nigerian ...

Poverty remains unacceptably high. The World Bank said on Monday that although Africa continued to show strong growth in most ...

The Minister of Works made the appeal on Monday. The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja called for more financial ...

The World Bank recently unfolded its Energy Business Plan for Nigeria. The World Bank Group on Tuesday restated its commitment ...

The World Bank released a global health report on Wednesday. Nigeria has been rated among countries with poor premature death ...

Food imports in Nigeria declined by N857 billion by the end of 2012. Agriculture Minister, Akinwumi Adesina, said on Friday ...

SME’s play a key role in the development of economic development. Small and Medium Scale enterprises, SMEs, are more credit-constrained ...

The Bureau has already sanctioned 13 contractors. The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) on Monday threatened stiff sanctions against contractors ...

The project promotes the growth of drought tolerant maize. The World Bank said on Friday that it spent over N209 ...

The number of Nigerians living in poverty is increasing significantly, the World Bank says. The number of Nigerians living in ...

The bank presented two reports on how to reverse this threat. The World Bank on Monday released two reports addressing ...

It is official! “As at now, our external indebtedness is as low as US$6.67 billion or about 3 percent of ...