2026 Budget: Nwifuru presents appropriation bill of N884.86 to Ebonyi Assembly
By Amarachi Ehia-Abakaliki Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State, Tuesday presented 2026 budget of ₦884,868,327,429.94 billion to the state House...
Month: November 2025
Sub-Saharan Africa: Steady growth amid fiscal challenges
Abebe Aemro Selassie, Amadou Sy Over the past six months the realignment of global priorities and increasingly turbulent external conditions...
AfDB Fund commits $14m grant to scaling up climate resilience across Sahel
Orisemeke Benjamin The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a grant of $14.64 million to support...
Policy actions can reinforce growth progress in many G20 economies
By Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Shushanik Hakobyan Since the Group of Twenty’s foundational Pittsburgh conference in 2009, progress toward its goal of...
How Europe can capture the AI growth dividend
By Florian Misch, Ben Park, Carlo Pizzinelli, Galen Sher Can artificial intelligence provide a much-needed boost to Europe’s economic productivity?...
Global manufacturing industry to experience $18bn in potential losses from ransomware attacks – Report
Orisemeke Benjamin Kaspersky in collaboration with VDC Research announced that in the first three quarters of 2025 ransomware attacks on...
UK offshore expertise can boost African energy projects, sustainability – Experts
Orisemeke Benjamin Industry leaders highlighted how expertise developed in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) can be leveraged to support Africa’s...
Champion regional transit guarantee scheme in ECOWAS, Afreximbank tells Nigeria
Orisemeke Benjamin African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has urged Nigeria to champion the implementation of an effective regional transit guarantee...
Ebonyi to spend N150bn on new cement factory
By Amarachi Ehia, Abakaliki Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi state Monday revealed plans to borrow N150 billion to build a...
Africa’s clean-cooking drive hinges on carbon-credit reform, transport upgradescarbon,
Africa’s long-delayed transition to clean cooking will fail without a serious overhaul of how the continent finances, transports and regulates...
