The World Bank has pegged the success rate of the National Identification Numbers (NIN), drive by the Nigeria Identity Management Commission (NIMC) at about 70 per...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank to suspend loans to Nigeria’s 36 states until previous ones are accounted for. This...
The World Bank last week approved $390 million in funding to amplify Kenya’s growing digital economy. The monies will be used in financing the first phase...
The World bank has warned Nigeria and other emerging economies against raising electricity tariffs, arguing that s such steps will push inflation in 2022. In its...
The World Bank is rolling out an $800m facility designed to fund a large-scale Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Nigeria, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum hinted in...
The World Bank says Nigeria’s digital economy plan is being continually hampered by an underdeveloped fixed broadband infrastructure. The global bank disclosed this in its ‘Nigeria...
The World Bank has said Nigeria can generate N600bn annually by increasing the excise duties on tobacco and alcohol as recommended in the National Development Update...
The World Bank has blamed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) management of the foreign exchange regime as the reason for the FX crisis currently being...
The World Bank has listed Nigeria among the three countries with the largest electricity deficits in the world. It said during the last decade, a greater...
The World Bank has stated that Nigeria made an early exit out of recession than projected in its October 2020 forecast for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This...