The President, African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has predicted that with over 50 countries currently harmonizing tariffs, rules and standards, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) would soon become the largest free trade area (FTA) globally. Adesina, who made the forecast in Durban, South Africa on Monday at the opening of […]
Ogun State Government has restated its commitment to continue to collaborate with development agencies and private partners in furtherance of its current efforts to promote the state’s economic growth and alleviate poverty among the people. The State Commissioner for Finance and Chief Economic Adviser, Mr. Dapo Okubadejo, made this promise when he hosted a delegation […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Development Bank of Nigeria Plc (DBN), Tony Okpanachi, on Tuesday disclosed that the development finance institution disbursed N400 billion to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country over the last four years. Okpanachi, who gave this hint during the virtual second Annual Lecture Series of the bank with […]
Most Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) believe that as currently structured the global trading system remains unfair to Africa and explicitly called for a fairer system governing global trade that will support developing countries The corporate leaders’ verdict on the global trading system was given in a survey of 200 CEOs commissioned […]