World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings may be canceled or held virtually amid coronavirus concerns – Official
The 2020 World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings which are scheduled for April may be canceled or held ...
Day: February 27, 2020
Saudi Arabia imposes travel restrictions to holy land over coronavirus months ahead of hajj pilgrimage
Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday it was imposing travel restrictions on foreign nationals to the holy land out of concern ...
Amnesty urges Burundi to drop demand on international NGOs to disclose ethnic identity of employees
The Burundi government must scrap a dangerous requirement for international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to declare the ethnicities of their Burundian ...
Head of Ethiopia’s Catholic Church Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew barred from entering Eritrea
The head of the Catholic Church in Ethiopia Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew was barred from leaving the main airport in neighboring ...
Central Energy Fund partners with Africa Energy Indaba, an oil and gas conference in Cape Town
The Central Energy Fund (CEF) has announced its partnership with the Africa Energy Indaba, an energy conference to be held ...
Nigeria senate finally moves to legalize electronic transactions and criminalize online fraud
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday considered a bill to provide enabling framework that would legalize all forms of electronic transactions ...
Alarming new World Bank report warns by 2030 up to two-thirds of the world’s extreme poor will live in fragile and conflict-affected countries
The World Bank on Thursday released a worrisome report from Washington D.C., warning that if urgent steps were not taken ...
Nigeria: EFCC, NIS partner to tackle illegal cash haulage through the borders
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has called for enhanced synergy between EFCC ...
Nigeria: Former Guaranty Trust Bank Plc staff in Enugu Onyekachi Nwosu jailed 18 years for fraud
A former Relationship Manager with Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, GTB in Enugu, Onyekachi Nwosu was on Thursday, February 27, 2020 convicted and sentenced to ...
EFCC kicks against Iwu’s move to transfer trial in N1.2b fraud case to Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 27, 2020 kicked against move by Prof Maurice Iwu, former ...