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- 23 Jun 2022
AFEX Expands Operations to Kenya
AFEX, Nigeria’s commodities exchange and commodities market player, announces its expansion into Kenya, following a successful pilot phase in the most diversified economy in East Africa. As part of…
- 2 Dec 2021
AFEX Launches $100m Food Security Fund
AFEX, Nigeria’s leading commodities market player, has announced a new $100m 10-year bond called The Food Security Fund (FSF). The financing will strengthen Africa's food security and produce three…
- 31 Jan 2023
AFEX Releases Annual Commodity Outlook for 2023, Predicts a Decline in Production of Grain Commodities
Nigeria’s commodities market player, AFEX, unveiled its Annual Commodities Outlook report for 2023 in a virtual event on Tuesday, forecasting that the impact of flooding, devaluation of the naira,…
- 16 Nov 2022
AFEX Unveils 2022 Wet Season Crop Production Report
Nigeria’s commodities market player, AFEX, has unveiled its 2022 Wet Season Crop Production Report in a hybrid event hosted at the AFEX head office in Abuja on November 16th 2022. The report, which…
- 17 Oct 2023
AFEX Unveils N100bn Asset-backed Commercial Paper to Bridge Agric Financing Gap
Nigeria’s commodities player AFEX, has launched a 3-year N100 billion Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) programme to bridge the huge agric finance gap in the country. Indeed, Nigeria require an…
- 30 May 2022
AFEX Marks World Hunger Day by Committing to Feeding an Additional 1M Households
AFEX, Nigeria's leading commodities exchange, marked World Hunger Day by committing to feeding an additional one million households over the next 12 months. To date, AFEX has helped smallholder…
- 31 Jan 2022
AFEX to Open Second Round of ₦100bn Funding Series to Strengthen Africa’s Agro-processors
AFEX, Nigeria's commodities market player and the country's first private sector commodities exchange, has announced the reopening of its $240m (₦100bn) Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) to help…
- 17 Oct 2022
AFEX Launches 100,000MT/ year Grain Quality Enhancement Centre to Mark World Food Day
AFEX, Africa’s leading private commodities market player, on Friday, marked World Food Day 2022, with the launch of a new 100,000MT/ year Grain Quality Enhancement Centre and 30,000 MT storage…
- 23 Jan 2023
AFEX Expands Operations to Uganda, Appoints Group CEO Others
AFEX, Africa’s leading commodities exchange and commodities market player, has announced its expansion into Uganda, seven months after it first entered the East African continent. Similar to Kenya…
- 4 Sept 2013
AFEX, Ministry of Agric Pioneer National Warehousing Project
African Exchange Holdings (AFEX), a pan-African holding company founded by Tony O. Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings, Nicolas Berggruen, chairman of Berggruen Holdings, and Jendayi Frazer,…
- 29 Nov 2023
AFEX Launches FETC Product on New Digital Trading Platform
Africa’s commodities player, AFEX, has launched Africa Exchange, a digital platform for trading commodities. The platform follows AFEX’s first foray into digital commodities trading with the launch…
- 16 Nov 2023
AFEX Forecasts Higher Prices for Commodities in the 2023/2024 Season
Africa’s leading commodities player, AFEX, unveiled its 2023 Crop Production report in a hybrid event hosted at its Abuja office on the 16th of November, 2023. The crop production report, which…
- 9 Jan 2020
Ecobank Opens up N70Bn Agricultural Financing Scheme
Ecobank Nigeria has announced an Agriculture Businesses Finance Scheme where it plans to disburse additional loan of N70 billion for practitioners in different value chains of Agriculture within the…
- 10 Jan 2020
Ecobank Opens up Financing Scheme, to Host Biggest Agric-Business, Food Summit
Ecobank Nigeria has announced an Agriculture Businesses Finance Scheme where it plans to disburse additional loan of N70 Billion for practitioners in different value chains of Agriculture within the…
- 7 Nov 2022
OmniBiz Africa, Emergency Response Africa, Others Receive Awards at the Nigeria Innovation Summit 2022
The Nigeria Innovation Summit 2022 with the theme: Re-imaging Innovation, organized by InnovationHub Africa, and held on October 4-8, 2022 was successfully concluded with the participation of…
- 2 Oct 2022
Nigeria Innovation Summit 2022 Backed by Omnibiz, Nexford University, Microsoft, NCC, NITDA, Union Bank, others
The Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS) 2022, the hybrid edition, scheduled for Tuesday, October 4 to Saturday, October 8 2022, has received the support of critical industry stakeholders. Nigeria…
- 19 Nov 2013
African Exchange Holdings Delivers on Receipts System
Nigerian Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) have conducted a technical walkthrough of a pioneering electronic warehouse receipt platform…
- 1 Aug 2018
Team C-Stell Win as Access Bank Partners AFF in Nigeria’s Largest Hackathon
Team Cosmos Constellation (C-Stell) emerged as winners of the //Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018 themed “Data Hack” which was sponsored by Access Bank Plc in partnership with Africa Fintech Foundry…
- 29 Jun 2018
AFF Holds //Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018
The Africa Fintech Foundry is set to hold the second edition of the //Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon in July 2018 (themed “2018 Data Hack”) at the AFF Building - 1216, Ibiyinka Olorunbe Close, Victoria…
- 4 Jun 2024
IG4D 2024: Edetaen Ojo to chair NDSF on Internet Governance
One of the top 10 digital change makers in Africa and Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Mr. Edetaen Ojo would preside over the 2024 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance…
- 1 Apr 2021
SEC Warns Investors against ‘High Returns’ Fraud Schemes
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cautioned potential capital market investors against putting their monies in fraud schemes that promise unwarranted high returns. Tunde Kamali, head,…
- 18 May 2022
Experts in the Supply Chain Discuss Industry Issues and Solutions
In line with its commitment to build an efficient supply chain in African markets, Africa’s fastest growing logistics company, 8BM Freight System joined industry experts to discuss the industry's…
- 29 Apr 2021
Startups Ecosystem Critical to the Future Of Nigeria – Osibanjo
Professor Yemi Osibanjo, Vice President of Nigeria has said that startup ecosystem is one of the vital tools in finding solutions to Africa's various challenges, according to him, these challenges…
- 2 May 2021
Startups Ecosystem Critical To The Future Of Nigeria – Osibanjo
The Vice President of Nigeria, His Excellency Professor Yemi Osibanjo, said that startup ecosystem is one of the vital tools in finding solutions to Africa's various challenges, according to him,…
- 28 Dec 2012
Elumelu’s Heir Group Develops Commodity Trading Platform
Heirs Holdings, the African investment company focusing on principal investments in a variety of sectors across Africa, plans to establish the Africa Exchange Holdings Limited (AfEX), a platform to…
- 21 Jun 2010
Two Technocrats Join Fidelity Bank’s Board
Fidelity Bank Plc has announced the appointment of Mr. Stanley Lawson and Alhaji Bashari Mohammed Gumel, two experienced technocrats to join its Board as independent directors. Independent…