Africa trade policy group appoints Ese Owie as Convenor, targets global influence
By Jeremiah Urowayino Trade experts and thought leaders from across the African continent have said Africa has a role in shaping the World Trade Organisation, WTO, reform, noting that the world is at a critical juncture for the multilateral trading system. They said this while launching the Africa Trade Policy Working Group, ATP Working Group, […]
$5.5bn foreign loan: FG to settle debts with $3bn —Adeosun
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said, yesterday, that the Federal Government would apply US$3 billion in refinancing the legacy debts of the immediate past government.
MSMEs development: SMEDAN moves to execute one local government one product programme
THE Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has commenced moves aimed at actualising the One-Local Government-One Product (OLOP) programme as provided for in the 2017 appropriation Act.
SMEDAN, SAGE to train 5400 school children on entrepreneurship
THE Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) in collaboration with US- based Students for Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) is set to train a total number of 5400 school children from 108 schools across Nigeria under the National School Entrepreneurship Programme (N-SEP).
Access Bank, German firms move to boost N637bn bilateral trade
Access Bank in collaboration with German Investment Corporation (DEG), and Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Nigeria (AHK Nigeria), yesterday, unveiled the first German Desk in Nigeria, aimed at increasing the 2.9 billion euros bilateral trade between Nigeria and Germany.
AfDB leads fight against Fall Armyworm
WHEN it arrived Nigeria sometime in 2016 probably from western hemisphere, not many expected it to spread to over 40 countries in Africa in a year. That is the story of Fall armyworm that is marching across Africa, decimating crop lands and causing substantial financial losses, yet its soldiers are only 1.5 inches tall. There is fear that if nothing concrete is done that these ‘’soldiers’’ could have the equivalent of a nuclear effect with regard to agriculture on the continent.
