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Amadou Gallo Fall, the President of the Basketball Africa League believes sports play a significant role in boosting the Africa Continental Free Trade Area within the continent. 

Fall: Sports key to promote Afri-Caribbean trade

Ghana’s economy expanded by 4.7 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, the sharpest expansion recorded in nine consecutive quarters. 

Ghana records sharpest economic expansion in 9 quarters 

Kanayo Awani, the Executive Vice President of the Intra African Trade Bank, believes that  the adoption and implementation of a diaspora strategy will empower Africans across the globe to achieve a shared future. 

Adopting the global Africa trade integration

Nigeria’s headline inflation maintained an upward trend for the 28th consecutive month in May 2024, up 26 basis points to 33.95 per cent. 

Will Nigeria's inflation slow in June?

As summer travel season takes shape, let’s find out the impact of the higher inflation environment and squeezed consumer pockets from the higher cost of living crisis on travel spend in Africa. 

How higher cost of living impacts travel spend in Africa 

Africa needs to be competitive and efficient in its area of strength. 

Chike-Obi: Africa needs to be competitive 

Ghana may rollover 350,000 tons of cocoa deliveries to next season as a shortage in beans is impacting supply. 

Cocoa beans shortage impacts Ghana’s deliveries

Samiala Zubairu, President of the Africa Finance Corporation believes Africa needs to structurally transform its economies and take advantage of the abundant mineral resources and move from a raw material export to a processing continent. 

Africa’s transformation crucial to global energy growth

With three economic recessions since Nigeria’s democratic transition in 1999, analysts believe Nigeria’s overreliance on crude oil has exposed it to both internal and external shocks. 

How resilient has Nigeria’s economy been since 1999?

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows Nigeria's total merchandise trade stood at 31.81 trillion naira in the first quarter of this year.

Can Nigeria sustain export trade trajectory?

Muhammadu Abubakar, CEO of L and Z Farms and the President of Commercial Diary Ranchers Association of Nigeria. 

How Nigeria’s diary policy may drive local milk production

State governments in Nigeria are calling on the Federal Government to enforce a “no-meter, no-service” policy for all new electricity connections to address lingering metering issues in the country’s power sector.

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