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 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have held strategic discussions on how to collaboration to further deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria. Speaking during the meeting on Thursday in Abuja, the apex bank’s Acting Governor, Mr. Folashodun Shonubi, reiterated the commitment of the CBN to continually partner with […]
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has charged governments and other economic stakeholders globally to prioritise poverty reduction in their developmental activities in order to mitigate the growing poverty rates across geo-political sub-regions. Specifically, the Foundation pointed out that improving health and education in Africa should be the world’s priority. In the latest report from Bill […]