Tag: WORLD BANK
World Bank partners Ekiti to tackle gender-based violence, genital mutilation
Ekiti State Government and the World Bank Group have
forged an alliance aimed at working together to tackle gender-based violence,
rape and female genital mutilation in...
Emefiele, finance minister to attend IMF/World Bank meeting
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, will on Tuesday join other world economic experts to discuss...
Okonjo-Iweala renews interest to be World Bank president
Former finance minister,
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has renewed her interest to be the president of
international lender, World Bank.
The two-time finance
minister gave a hint into her ambition...
Ex-World Bank president, Kim, joins Ogunlesi’s investment firm
Former
president of the World Bank, Jim Kim, who resigned on Monday, is set to join
investment firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), chaired by Adebayo
Ogunlesi.
Mr Kim...
Atiku shares thoughts on ease of doing business, opportunities for economic...
Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku says Nigeria has always held enormous potential which is yet to be fulfilled despite being Africa’s largest economy and...
SystemSpecs showcases Nigerian ingenuity at US-Nigeria Investment Summit
SystemSpecs, owners of Remita, the software infrastructure which facilitates payment into Nigeria’s Treasury Single Account (TSA), is flying the Nigerian flag alongside representatives of...
Elumelu, World Bank president, LinkedIn CEO open digital economy forum
Chairman, Heirs Holdings and founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, will join World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, and LinkedIn CEO, Jeff...
Okonjo-Iweala gets high-level Commonwealth appointment
Former Nigerian Minister of Finance and Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed into a High-Level Group on Governance...
World Bank approves $486 m credit to Nigerian power grid work
World Bank has approved a 486 million dollars credit facility to Nigeria for electricity grid improvements, the lender said on Friday.
“The investments under the...
Senate approves $350m World Bank loan for Ogun State Development Policy...
The Senate at plenary on Thursday approved 350 million dollars World Bank loan for Ogun State Development Policy Operation (DPO) as contained in the...