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Lack of deal pipeline: The majority of project sponsors in Nigeria had limited capability to develop projects to a bankable level while the majority of investors would not invest without…

The Infracredit business model was simple, in concept. There were many potential infrastructure projects, companies, or funds that needed to borrow long-term capital, but whose stand-alone…

For example, in Brazil, it was reported that large amounts of state-controlled worker retirement funds had been invested in risky, badly managed and overpriced infrastructure related…

Kehinde heaved a sigh of relief, she had just paid off a micro loan of N30, 000 spread over a three month payment period at over 20 percent interest rate per month with Carbon (formerly…

The COVID- 19 pandemic is a major challenge to humankind, and is the most serious global public health emergency since the end of World War II. “In the face of COVID- 19, China and Africa…

As at Monday, May 11, 2020, there were about 4.1 million cases of COVID-19 in about 187 countries/regions worldwide with staggering casualty figures, according to the John Hopkins University…

Five months into the global health emergency, our world has changed drastically. What began as a health crisis is now a major economic challenge of immense proportion. Huge job losses,…

COVID-19 is a rude awakening for the world. It has catapulted us into a health and an economic crisis that is affecting not only the poor but also the rich. The inconvenient pandemic has…

For the 10,145 enterprises that benefited from the Bank of Industry’s N234 billion disbursement in 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 with its negative impact on business must have left some of…

When some years ago, Nigeria’s economy was resized via the reclassification of its GDP (rebasing) which catapulted it to the top in the continent, my friends in South Africa joked about it.…