Digital innovation, financial reforms key to closing Africa’s $100bn trade finance gap – Businessday NG
PAC Research, one of Nigeria’s leading research outfits, has identified financial architecture, digital innovation, regulatory reforms and political commitment as critical to addressing Africa’s more than $100 billion unmet trade finance gap. The research outfit said digital payment systems, blockchain-enabled trade infrastructure, factoring and supply chain finance could significantly widen access to trade finance across…
Nigeria weighs reforms to ease crude supply bottleneck holding back Africa’s largest refinery
The proposed changes are expected to be discussed this week as regulators review the country’s domestic crude supply obligation, which requires oil producers to offer crude to Nigerian refiners before exporting it
Okonjo-Iweala: Economic Reforms Must Deliver Jobs, Tangible Benefits – MSME
Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said Nigeria’s long-term economic success will depend more on the quality of its leadership than on its abundant natural re, business opportunities, and measurable improvements in citizens’ lives
Nigeria’s Tinubu says reforms stabilising economy despite hardship | CNBC Africa
May 29 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Friday his economic reforms stabilised the country and revived investor confidence, despite a steep cost-of-living squeeze on households three years into his presidency