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- 26 Jan 2009
Borno Partners IFAD, World Bank on Rural Development
Alhaji Mohammed Damchida, Borno state commissioner for agriculture, has said that the state has agreed to implement the concept and programmes of International Fund for Agricultural Development…
- 9 May 2023
Interswitch Partners Credit Bank of Kenya, IFAD to Deepen Remittance
As part of sustained efforts to create solutions that enable individuals and communities prosper across the continent, Interswitch Group, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce…
- 16 Jun 2022
Mobile Phones Drive Global Remittances Flows 8.6 Per cent Higher in 2021
The United Nations, through the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has disclosed that migrant workers sent home an estimated $605 billion to low- and middle-income countries last…
- 18 Jun 2015
WorldRemit Wins Prestigious Award by United Nations Agency
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which focuses on agricultural development and financial inclusion, has named WorldRemit winner of its 2015 private-sector award for Best…
- 1 Jun 2025
Farmers to Get Identity Card for Loans, Inputs
The federal government, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), is building a digital registrar that will identify farmers, their farmlands, type of soil and…
- 24 Nov 2023
NITDA Pledges to Ensure Sustainable Solutions for Small Holder Farmers
In order to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for development (ICT4D) in the Agricultural Sector and make access to digital technologies more equitable, the Director-General of the…
- 30 Nov 2023
Digitising Agricultural Processes for Smallholder Farmers to Boost Nigeria’s GDP by $67bn – DG NITDA
With the smallholder farmers producing an estimated 90% of the country’s food and contributing 21% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $477 billion, rejuvenating the agricultural sector by…
- 14 Sept 2021
Buhari Asks Senate to Approve Humongous $4Bn, €710m External Loans
The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to consider and approve an external loan to fund projects captured under the 2018-2021 borrowing plan. The letter dated August…
- 19 Oct 2009
Post Offices in W.Africa Offer e- Money Transfer Services
About 300 post offices in six West African countries have started offering electronic money transfers as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to use technology to help ensure that rural…
- 3 Apr 2023
MFS Africa Partners Access Bank to Enable Outward Remittances from Nigeria and Kenya
MFS Africa, the largest digital payments network in Africa, operating in over 35 African countries, has partnered with Access Bank, Nigeria’s largest bank which operates across 17 markets, to expand…
- 12 Apr 2010
Giving Telephone Access to Rural Dwellers
The developmental history of telephony in Nigeria shows that the telephone service had always being targeted at the urban dweller to the exclusion of the rural dweller that forms a major thrust of…
- 29 Dec 2024
AfDB to Release $2.2Bn Nigerian Agro-Industrial Fund from 2025
African Development Bank (AfDB) is set to start releasing a $2.2bn fund for the development of Special Agro-Industrial Process Zones in Nigeria (SAPZ). Abdul Kamara, director general, AfDB Nigeria…
- 20 Jan 2016
WorldRemit Expands Instant Money Transfers in Nigeria
WorldRemit, the global money transfer app, has introduced instant transfers to Nigeria. In addition to its same-day bank transfer service, WorldRemit now allows people to send money to more than 140…