Thursday, August 20, 2026
Increased spending fails to spike healthcare outcomes in Nigeria, Africa
*New public-private partnership models advocated... Despite increased spending on healthcare in the public and private sectors across the African continent,...
Read moreDetailsWorld’s biggest economies sitting on a ‘pension time bomb’? WEF says funding gap will surpass global GDP
A report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned that by 2050 the combined pension savings gap of eight...
Read moreDetailsNigeria’s poor power supply linked to inadequate financial investment, consumer sabotage
Inadequate financial investment and poor consumer appreciation of the challenges in the power sector have been adduced as reasons for...
Read moreDetailsWorld Bank economist sidelined after demanding shorter emails and reports
The chief economist at the World Bank has stepped down from its research arm after staff were vexed by demands...
Read moreDetailsNigeria not opposed to joining OPEC output cuts, says oil minister
Nigerian Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said on Thursday that conceptually Nigeria was not opposed to joining OPEC production caps...
Read moreDetailsZambia’s economy to grow 4 percent in 2017, 5.2 percent in 2018: govt official
Zambia's economy will grow by 4 percent this year from around 3.2 percent last year supported by better agricultural output,...
Read moreDetailsIreland anticipates 10-fold rise in customs declarations post-Brexit
Ireland anticipates a 10-fold increase in the number of customs declarations made by local companies after Brexit, a senior official...
Read moreDetailsIMF expects inflation to remain in mid-teens until 2020
By Business a.m. live staff The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that inflation in Nigeria would remain in the...
Read moreDetailsAustralia and Hong Kong begin free trade agreement talks
Australia and Hong Kong began talks to secure a free trade agreement, Australia's trade minister Steven Ciobo said on Tuesday,...
Read moreDetailsThe world must unite like a ‘flock of geese’, says China’s Xi Jinping
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has made his latest bid for global leadership urging world leaders to reject protectionism, embrace...
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