As the single most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria is widely expected to overtake South Africa as the largest economy on the continent within a matter of years. Increasingly, it is overhauling its markets – whether in electricity or rail – to improve efficiency, and growth has been robust even through the depths of the recent global slowdown...
Officials have been at work reforming Nigeria’s pension system for almost a decade, and are showing no signs of losing steam. While early attempts have failed to fix problems entrenched in the system, the government seems determined to tweak its features for as long as necessary to find the right mix and eliminate fraud from the system. An overhaul...
Although the 2004 wave of consolidation led to a near-doubling of bank branches, from 3535 in 2005 to 5565 in 2009, as per figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the number of financially included Nigerians was 23.6m by the end of 2008, according to Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA), a financial development organisation....
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