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Ecobank Nigeria lists $300 unsecured bond on London Stock Exchange as it seeks more investors African News

Ecobank Nigeria lists $300 unsecured bond on London Stock Exchange as it seeks more investors

FINANCIAL house Ecobank Nigeria has listed its $300 senior unsecured bond on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as part of an ambitious move to increase liquidity and attract more international shareholders.   Floated in 1985 by bankers and the governments of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) member states,...
Public Health England discovers 38 cases of new Nigerian Covid-19 strain said to be vaccination resistant African News

Public Health England discovers 38 cases of new Nigerian Covid-19 strain said to be vaccination resistant

BRITISH healthcare agency Public Health England (PHE) has found 38 cases of a new Nigerian Covid-19 strain currently raging which is causing grave concerns as it is reported to be less effective against vaccination.   Following its latest research, PHE announced the discovery and has now labelled the strain a variant under...
Chinese trade with Nigeria continues to balloon surpassing the total with the rest of Africa Politics

Chinese trade with Nigeria continues to balloon surpassing the total with the rest of Africa

CHINA has revealed that Nigeria remains ones of its largest cash cows globally after pointing out that trade between the two countries was valued at a staggering $19.27 in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic struck.   Keen on dramatically boosting its share of global trade, China introduced a Belt and Road Initiative in 2013...
World Health Organisation denies Nigeria Pfizer vaccine because she lacks storage facilities African News

World Health Organisation denies Nigeria Pfizer vaccine because she lacks storage facilities

NIGERIA has failed to make the World Health Organisation (WHO) shortlist of nations that qualify to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine because of the country’s inability to meet the standard requirement of being able to offer storage at the required -70 degrees Celsius.   With the vaccine being distributed worldwide, the...
World Bank sets aside $12bn to help African nations purchase coronavirus vaccine African News

World Bank sets aside $12bn to help African nations purchase coronavirus vaccine

WORLD Bank managers have set aside a sum of $12bn to fund the purchase of coronavirus vaccines for Africa as part of a global to ensure that billions of people are vaccinated worldwide before the end of the year.   Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new...
No matter how you look at it, President Buhari has to create a United African Presidential Front to work with the Biden administration African News

No matter how you look at it, President Buhari has to create a United African Presidential Front to work with the Biden administration

Ayo Akinfe (1) Looking at the collegiate approach President Biden is adopting, it is crystal clear that the way forward over the next four years will be team politics (2) President Biden has already cancelled the bilateral Keystone XL Pipeline contract with Canada in favour of the more multilateral approach as epitomised by the...
As Nigeria contemplates implementing Prof Osinbajo’s public works programme here are kilometres of tarred road figures targets we should aspire to meet. Nigeria is seriously lagging behind other developing nations African News

As Nigeria contemplates implementing Prof Osinbajo’s public works programme here are kilometres of tarred road figures targets we should aspire to meet. Nigeria is seriously lagging behind other developing nations

Ayo Akinfe (1) India - 5.9m km (2) Brazil - 1.75m km (3) South Africa - 750,000 km (4) Thailand - 702,210 km (5) Indonesia - 542,310 km (6) Turkey - 445,000 km (7) Mexico - 393,473 km (8) Iran - 291,014 km (9) Pakistan - 263,942 km (10) Nigeria - 193,200 km We have our work cut out as neither our road nor...
UK imposes blanket travel ban on 11 African nations to contain new Covid-19 South African strain African News

UK imposes blanket travel ban on 11 African nations to contain new Covid-19 South African strain

BRITAIN has imposed a blanker travel ban on 11 African nations as part of its war against the coronavirus pandemic amid fears that these countries risk importing the dreaded South African strain of the virus.   Under a near-total lockdown until February, the UK is grappling with several mutant strains of the virus and as such...
Inaugural Air Peace 11-hour non-stop flight to Jamaica leaves Lagos enroute to Montego Bay African News

Inaugural Air Peace 11-hour non-stop flight to Jamaica leaves Lagos enroute to Montego Bay

NIGERIAN leading airline Air Peace has stepped up its expansion into the international market with the launch of an 11-hour non-stop flight between Lagos and the Jamaican city of Montego Bay this week.   Yesterday, the maiden flight left the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos for Jamaica according to Stanley...
I cannot see anything other than a radical public works programme soaking up Nigeria's 22m unemployed youths African News

I cannot see anything other than a radical public works programme soaking up Nigeria's 22m unemployed youths

Ayo Akinfe Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021 ...
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