Three years after Zimbabwe reintroduced its currency, a decade after abandoning it for mainly the United States dollar, the local currency’s value has declined from about 2.5 to the US dollar in 2019 to 285 to the US dollar on the interbank market. The Zimbabwean dollar trades even lower in black market at 400 to […]Read More
Comoros is an archipelago of four islands located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa. The economy of Comoros was hit hard by the adverse effects of the COVID–19 in 2020 after being hit hard in 2019 by Cyclone Kenneth. Covid-19 restrictions and curfews enforced in the […]Read More
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, employees in Nigeria’s formal sector earned N159.01 trillion from 2018 to 2021. This was contained in its ‘Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report’. The NBS said the total compensation of employees in the nation, based on the GDP and expenditure at current purchasers’ value, was N34.36tn […]Read More
Latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics have revealed that the Consumer Price Index rose to 16.82 percent in April from 15.92 percent in March. The NBS disclosed this in its ‘Consumer Price Index April 2022’. The report read in part, “In April 2022, the consumer price index, which measures inflation increased to 16.82 […]Read More
The National Bureau of Statistics has said that Nigerian residents spent N108.47 trillion on household consumption in 2021 in nominal terms. The figure is 11 percent higher than the N97.72tn recorded in 2020. This is an increase amid double-digit inflation of 15.92 recorded in march 2022. The NBS, which disclosed this in its recent Expenditure […]Read More
To prevent the catastrophic impacts of climate change, a pact signed and detailed in the Paris Agreement called for countries to limit global warming to 2ºC. To stay within the carbon budget, the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed 450 ppm CO2 for E5. Like other continents in the world, Africa recognizes […]Read More
About 23 million Nigerians were pushed into a food crisis due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic-induced inflation in 2021. The World bank said this in its latest Commodity Markets Outlook report in reference to the Global Report on Food Crises. According to the Washington-based, rising food prices have heightened food insecurity in emerging […]Read More