9 million still miss HIV treatment, WHO warns
…Says funding cuts, inequalities threaten bid to end HIV, hepatitis, STIs by 2030 By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that nearly nine million people living with HIV are still without life-saving treatment, raising concerns that funding cuts, humanitarian crises and widening inequalities could derail global efforts to end HIV, viral hepatitis […]
Afreximbank lends $170m to Orascom for Pan-African expansion
THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed a facility agreement lending $170 million to Egypt-based conglomerate Orascom Investment Holding (OIH) to assist the company expand its pan-African activities in pursuit of its short and medium-term expansion strategy.
Global Headwinds: Nigeria needs policies to attract private sector investment in infrastructure —FSDH Merchant Bank
FSDH Merchant Bank has called on the federal government to roll out incentives to attract private sector investment for infrastructure development.
NIFOR top staff risk jail over alleged contempt
BENIN CITY—SOME top staff of the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, NIFOR, including the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development risk being
4 dead, 8 injured in Bauchi auto crash
Bauchi—Four people died in a motor accident, Saturday evening, along Bauchi-Tafawa Balewa Road, leaving eight others with varying degrees of injuries.
