Nigeria commends EU bank’s decision to increase grant (2010-02-09 15:33:54)

APA, Abuja (Nigeria) Nigeria has commended the initiative of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to increase grants to Nigerian banks to finance projects in various sectors of the economy.

  UEMOA zone records price decline in October 2009 (2010-02-09 01:01:00)

APA - Dakar (Senegal) The overall level of prices in the area of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) has declined in October 2009, APA learns Monday from the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), based in Dakar.

  Botswana records non-mineral income as largest revenue source (2010-02-08 17:43:54)

APA-Gaborone (Botswana) Botswana, the world’s largest diamond producer, said here on Monday that the country’s largest revenue source is non-mineral income tax at 24.4 percent of the total.

  AfDB charges ahead with successful US$1 billion global bond issue (2010-02-08 17:37:21)

APA-Tunis (Tunisia) The African Development Bank (AfDB) has successfully launched and priced a three-year US$1 billion global bond issue on 2 February, APA learns here Monday.

  Nigeria set to institutionalize mechanism for wage review (2010-02-08 00:27:00)

APA, Abuja (Nigeria) Bogged by incessant wage increase agitation, Nigeria is proffering a mechanism to institutionalise the process of reviewing the national minimum wage and discard the present “ad-hoc approach’’ , the country’s Labour Minister, Adetokunbo Kayode, said on Sunday in Abuja.