Gambia, Mali, Niger get AfDB’s $22m to fight COVID-19
African Development Bank's Board of Directors has approved an emergency project in support of three low-income Economic Community of West ...
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Experts say telcos can rebuild Nigeria amid COVID-19
Telecommunication companies in Nigeria can rebuild the country’s economy and other sectors despite the devastating effect of the coronavirus disease ...
N10bn COVID-19 research grant approved, CBN says
The Central Bank of Nigeria says about N10bn has been approved for the COVID-19 intervention fund aimed at finding local ...
Elumelu, Okonjo-Iweala urge Africans to take advantage of COVID-19
Africa should see the coronavirus disease as an opportunity to look inwards, tapping into existing trade agreements, manufacture locally for ...
UK contributes £20m in AU’s COVID-19 fund
The United Kingdom has pledged to contribute up to £20m to the newly-created 'African Union COVID-19 Response Fund' to help ...
Customs killing businesses, NECA cries out
The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association has accused the Nigeria Customs Service of hampering economic activities of business owners in the ...
CBN, NNPC to pay N1bn for quarantine, feeding of 3,000 Nigerians
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have agreed to shoulder the cost of the quarantine ...
CBN to offer grants to researchers, scientists
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it is working on a framework that will offer grants and other long-term facilities ...
Global stock markets lose $18tn to COVID-19, says report
The economic effect of the coronavirus disease has resulted in a loss of over $18tr between February and March 2020, ...
Six people quarantined as Akwa Ibom intercepts corpse smuggled from Lagos
The Akwa Ibom State government has intercepted a corpse being smuggled into the state from Lagos. Six people accompanying the ...
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