Goddy Ikeh
A delegation from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) was in Accra last week to engage national and local stakeholders on Ghana’s potential participation in UN-Habitat’s Quality of Life (QoL) Initiative, a people-centred programme designed to improve living standards in cities.
The Cabinet of Ghana has approved plans by the Ministry of Energy and Green Transition to develop a second gas processing plant in the country. The project builds on efforts to maximize the country’s 2.1 trillion cubic feet of gas resources to support electrification and industrialization.
The Executive Secretary, of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, says that revenue-generating agencies currently owe the Nigerian government N9.3tn in unremitted liabilities.
Five of Nigeria’s largest banks, Zenith Bank, Guaranty Trust Holding Company, United Bank for Africa, Stanbic IBTC, and Fidelity Bank, reported record-breaking profits in their 2024 full-year financial results despite an economy struggling with inflation, naira depreciation and declining consumer purchasing power.
A pan-African investment company, Heirs Holdings, has announced its strategic partnership with GIVO Africa, a climate technology and recycling company, to tackle plastic waste.
A Nigerian Finance company, Credit Direct, has launched a fully digital, end-to-end Buy Now Pay Later solution and other products, marking the company’s strategic evolution beyond lending into retail investments and payments serving both individuals and businesses.
The Nigeria Boxing Board of Control (NBB of C) says that the Nigerian boxer, Segun ‘Success’ Olanrewaju, who died in Accra, Ghana on Saturday, was not granted approval for the fatal bout after his initial fight scheduled for Friday was cancelled after being adjudged overweight.
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, the Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) have called for justice for the 16 hunters killed by a mob in Uromi in Edo State in southern Nigeria on Thursday.
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the European Union (EU) have commenced high-level discussions on ways to strengthen EU-Nigeria economic cooperation.
The investors on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) realized N437bn gain following the announcement of dividends for the 2024 financial year by corporates thereby reversing the downward trend recorded by the NGX.