Following the expiry of its Second Climate Change Action Plan after COP21, the AfDB has launched a more comprehensive and ambitious strategic framework on climate change and green growth. This includes a climate policy and long-term strategy covering 2021 to 2030, together with a Third Action Plan for 2021-2025. The AfDB committed 9% of its…
The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition is calling for the participation of business professionals from across Africa as judges of its 2023 edition, as it is on course to be bigger and better this year. With less than three weeks before entries close on May 12, more than 21,000 entrepreneurs from all corners of…
The African Development Bank has signed a $525,000 grant agreement with Africa Fintech Network (AFN) for the setup of the Africa Fintech Hub, an online portal that will serve as a one-stop shop for all fintech activities in Africa. The agreement was signed on 4 April 2023. The Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) will…
The inaugural GITEX Africa will make its historic debut from 31 May-2 June 2023, welcoming more than 900 exhibitors, start-ups, and visiting delegations from 95 countries for three days of intensive outcome-focused public-private sector collaborations in the world’s next biggest digital economy.The cross-continent support of the global tech community has culminated in a sold-out GITEX…
The Nigerian Communications Commission remitted an Operating Surplus/Spectrum Fees of estimated N197.7bn to the Federal Government for the 2021 financial performance reporting period. Â Responding to a publication which claimed that the Commission incurred a deficit of N17bn for the year because of expenditures on personnel and consultancy fees, the NCC, in a statement issued…
​The Director of Financial Services at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Yakubu Gontor, has been honoured for his visionary leadership in the communications industry and contribution towards youth development in Nigeria. According to a statement by Reuben Muoka, Director of Public Affairs at the NCC, the honour was bestowed on Yakubu Gontor by the Northern…
