January 10, 2019/CBN Executive Summary The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) adopted the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) in 2012. The Strategy articulated the demand-side, supply-side and regulatory barriers to financial inclusion, identified areas of focus, set targets, determined key performance indicators (KPIs) and established the implementation structure. The NFIS […]

Culled—Proshare January 9, 2019/FBNQuest Research Gross official reserves increased by US$950m in December to US$43.12bn on the back of the FGN’s latest Eurobond sales which raised US$2.86bn. This accretion has been partly countered by two negative developments. The first is the continuing, and well-documented exit of some offshore portfolio players […]

January 4, 2019/OilPrice.com Sources –    Former government official in Burkina Faso –    Turkish private intelligence operative with a Western firm –    Turkish investigative journalist The Syria Withdrawal Talk of a U.S. withdrawal from Syria sparked rumors—first surfacing from a question posed by former NATO commander General Wesley Clark—as to whether […]