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Agriculture Farming

Don seeks subsidised inputs for farmers

From Our Correspondent A university lecturer, Dr Suleiman Lawal, has urged the Federal Government to provide farm inputs to farmers at subsidised rate. Lawal, a lecturer at Economics Department, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, gave the advice on Sunday in Kastina. He said such subsidy would help to stem rising cost of food in the […]

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Agriculture Foreign News

World Bank steps up long-term development agendas in Africa

The World Bank has pledged to step up support to African countries with a special focus on their long-term development agendas, a senior bank official said. “We need to support long-term development agendas in Africa with particular focus on infrastructure, agriculture and other real sectors. These agendas will help remove bottlenecks and unleash growth,” World […]

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Economy Foreign News

W/Bank approves $275m to support Zambia’s reform programme

The World Bank has approved $275 million in concessional financing targeted at securing support for fiscal stabilisation and accelerated economic growth programs, a senior government official has said. Situmbeko Musokotwane, the Minister of Finance and National Planning said the approval was granted through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) at a meeting of its […]

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Economy Foreign News

Kenya to help small businesses on funding

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it has developed rules to enable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to raise capital through crowdfunding. Wycliffe Shamiah, the Chief Executive Officer of CMA, said the new rules pave the way for Kenya’s MSMEs, which employ some 15 million people in the workforce, to raise […]

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