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Nigeria: Govt Reiterates Need for Digital Economy
This Day, 1 June 2020
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, has stated that the disruption caused COVID-19 has strengthened federal government's resolve to focus… Read more »
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Nigeria: COVID-19 Economy - Why Nigeria Must Develop Digital Economy, Increase National Savings
Vanguard, 13 May 2020
Foreign Investment Network (FIN) has listed a number of economic strategies Nigeria and other African countries could adopt, to avert the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »
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Nigeria: FG Urged Deepen Economic Diversification
This Day, 4 May 2020
The federal government has been advised to utilise the challenges posed by the current outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic to transit to an economy that is not highly dependent on oil… Read more »
Including Digital Economy Into Nigeria's GDP
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim Pantami, has said that the disruption caused by COVID-19 has strengthened the government's plan to focus on digitilisation as another means of diversifying the economy and adding to the GDP, as it faces a massive dip in oil revenue that has impacted the national coffers.
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Since the spread of the novel coronavirus worldwide, there has been a sharp drop in oil prices globally and as a result, Africa's biggest oil exporter has seen a sharp drop in it Read more »
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The International Monetary Fund has predicted that the global economy will contract by 3% in 2020, making the "great lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and ... Read more »
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Increasing access to e-commerce would create jobs, and with COVID-19 impacting the world, people who are in lockdown or under self-quaratine, could access shopping through the ... Read more »
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Africa50 is an innovative fund for developing and financing African infrastructure, funded by the African Development Bank, African governments and private and institutional ... Read more »
