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World Bank Revises Nigeria’s 2018 GDP Growth To Below 2%

The World Bank on Wednesday projected that Nigeria’s GDP growth would hover slightly below 2% in 2018, largely driven by non-oil industry and services. The latest projection was reported in the the World Bank Nigeria’s bi-annual Economic Update titled Investing in Human Capital for Nigeria’s Future Specifically, the report stated that, Nigeria, like many other countries, […]

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World Bank Tasks States On Reforms To Support SMEs

The World Bank on Thursday advised states in the country to sustain their reform initiatives aimed at improving the ease of doing business for domestic small and medium enterprises in their domains. The advice was based on the findings of the multilateral financial institution’s latest edition of it’s  Doing Business in Nigeria report. The report, which […]

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World Bank, Anambra Strengthen Collaboration On Devt Projects

The Anambra State Government has restated its determination to continue to strengthen its partnership with the World Bank in areas of development projects’ financing as a strategic step towards actualizing broad-based development of the state. The State Governor, Willie Obiano, made the promise at the Governor’s Lodge, when he received a team of World Bank […]

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World Bank, S/W States To Step Up Projects’ Implementation In Region

The World Bank and Governments of South Western part of Nigeria, comprising Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo, have agreed to work together to improve the World Bank assisted projects’ portfolio implementation performance and delivery of results to project beneficiaries in the region. The agreement was the result of the discussions of officials of […]