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World Bank to Spend $4 Million in Nigeria’s Niger State
The World Bank has declared its intention to spend $4 million (N600 million) in 2011 on the execution of development projects in rural communities in Nigeria’s north central Niger State under its community assistance program.
World Bank Wants Nigeria to Invest More in Education, Health
The World Bank wants Nigeria to invest more on education, health and to properly implement the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) to boost the transformation of the nation’s economy.
Over 200 Micro-finance Banks have Their Licenses Revoked By the Nigerian Central Bank
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)has announced the revocation of the licenses of 224 micro-finance banks found to be “terminally distressed and technically insolvent”. The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability of the CBN, Dr Kingsley Moghalu,...
UK Financial Services Guide Launched in Mumbai
Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Sassoon, while on a visit to India, has launched a UK financial services guide in Mumbai as a direct response to the interest of Indian banks and financial firms, keen to set up businesses in the United Kingdom...
Kenya Set to Host Regional Banking And Mobile Money Conference
Kenya is set to hold a two-day regional banking and mobile money conference for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region from 24-25 February, organizers disclosed on Thursday. According to the organizers, AITEC Africa, the conference...
Guinea’s Acting Leader Returns From Morocco to Face Urgent Union Demands
Guinea’s interim leader and acting head of the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD), General Sekouba Konate who returned from Morocco on Tuesday night, is facing strike demands from the trade-union movement that threatens to launch...
Nightmare on Market Street
It has been so long since I have invoked the spirit of “immutable work practices” in attacking a really stupid human-interface design that I probably ought to quote the last time I cited the concept: Graham Button has lectured and published...A Calculus of Social Value?
I have been reading with great fascination Tony Judt’s article in the latest issue of The New York Review on why the very concept of social democracy appears to be off the map whenever our government undertakes any effort towards reform, particularly...
