Between 2018 and 2020, the number of Nigerians active in the labour force plunged by 20 million, the World Bank has said. The bank said this in a report titled ‘Of roads less traveled: Assessing the potential for Read More
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The World Bank has said that the number of international migrants from Nigeria had increased threefold from 1990 till 2019. The bank said the increase is from 446,806 in 1990 to 1,438,331 in 2019. The bank said this in a report Read More
The World Bank Group has said it has provided over $157billion in 15 months as financing relief to help developing countries survive the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was according to a press statement titled ‘Read More
The World Bank has said that between March 2020 and July 2021, an estimated 4,000 children in Nigeria were orphaned as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statistical report released by the Read More
The World Bank has said that Nigeria’s GDP may decline by $139 billion in 2030 on the back of a collapse in ecosystem services. The apex Institution in its latest report, “Economic Case for Nature”, said Read More
The World Bank has stated that it has provided a fund of over $4 billion for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine to 51 countries– with over half in Africa. This was contained in a press Read More
“We are all tired of the country. Nothing is working… most of our marketers cannot bring foodstuff because they are afraid of attacks. We now divide the yams into four to five pieces and sell Read More
The World Bank has said, in its ‘Resilience through Reforms’ report, that Nigeria would likely make N462 billion from the electronic money transfer levy as a source of stable revenue in 2021. According to the report, Read More
The World Bank has said that Nigeria is among the three countries in the world with the largest electricity deficits in the world. The apex bank said during the last decade, a greater share of Read More
The World Bank has approved $700 million credit for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programme. The credit, from the International Development Association, is to ensure that six million people Read More
