Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced that the Foundation will commit $30 million in a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform in Africa. Gates made the announcement on Wednesday at the Grand Challenges annual meeting hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners, in Senegal. Grand Challenges, […]
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday, in collaboration with key partners, including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Financial Access Initiative (FAI) of the New York University, Low Income Financial Transformation (L-IFT), Lagos Business School (LBS) amongst others, launched the Small Firms Diaries (SFD) Initiative in Nigeria. The SFD research initiative which is being […]
The 3rd World Bank Tax Conference, co-organized with the TaxDev Centre, with the theme ‘New Tax Instruments’ has been scheduled to virtually hold from September 30 through October 1, this year. A notice by the Breton Woods institution indicated the conference would bring together leading researchers and policymakers to discuss recent research on new tax instruments, including, taxes on the […]
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, on Tuesday identified agricultural research as crucial to ongoing efforts to grow the country’s agriculture sector and by implication, achieve food security for all. He made the remarks when a delegation from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, led by the Deputy Director, Agricultural Development, […]