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Oil marketers estimate petrol consumers may pay about eight point four-trillion-naira on their fuel spending between July and December this year once the subsidy regime is over.

Subsidy removal fuels price jitters 

The Pensioner Bondholders Forum in Ghana have picketed the Ministry of Finance over outstanding coupon and principal payments with placards registering their displeasure. 

Ghana pensioner bondholders picket finance ministry

Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission has opened the Regulatory Incubation program for FinTech firms operating or seeking to operate in the Nigerian Capital Market.

Driving innovation in Nigeria's capital market

Nigeria's cement giants recorded a mixed bag of first quarter earnings, with Dangote Cement seeing a recovery in its bottline despite a lower revenue quarter on quarter. 

Nigeria's cement giants see mixed Q1'23 earnings

With the growth in digital payments across Africa, Yinka Adewale, the CEO of Nomba says the recently acquired $30 million pre-Series B funding round will address inefficiencies in payment processes of businesses on the continent. 

Addressing inefficiencies in Africa's digital payment solutions

A report by the Global Methane Hub and Climate Works Foundation shows innovations in livestock, food waste and rice cultivation can eliminate over 5.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050. 

How food innovations can lower methane emissions?

The Nigerian Senate has approved the 22.7 trillion-naira Ways and Means advances taken from the Central Bank of Nigeria by the Government as short-term finance to fund delayed expected cash receipt of deficit.

Nigeria approves ₦22.7trn  Ways & Means loans

The World Bank Group has begun work to assess the business and investment climate in up to 180 economies under its flagship Business Ready project.

World Bank launches business ready project

The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce a 0.25 basis point hike in interest rates with analysts expecting this to be the last in its 14-month tightening cycle.

All eyes on U.S. Fed decision 

The World Economic Forum is urging Nigeria to identify risk-hedging facilities to back the naira financing of clean energy projects due to the limited availability of dollar finances.

How dollar-backed financing limits Nigeria's clean energy transition

Scott Cameron, the Acting Coordinator of Prosper Africa joins CNBC Africa to discuss how this initiative will unlock viable pipeline of deals across Africa.

Why US.-Africa relations is crucial to trade & investment growth

Kevin Urama, Chief Economist and Vice President of Economic Governance and Knowledge Management at the African Development Bank believes Africans in the diaspora can contribute remittances, trade, science and technology transfers. 

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