Nigeria: Banking for the Poor - Any Willing Stakeholders?

9 September 2008
opinion

Lagos — For more than 90 minutes, he held his audience spell bound. Nobel laureate, US-trained Bangladeshi economist, and acclaimed 'Banker to the Poor', Professor Mohammad Yunus, hit the nail on the head on the case of Nigerian stakeholders in the microfinance sector.

No doubt, there is grinding poverty in the midst of abundant resources in the country and no responsible government can be comfortable with this.

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