July 3, 2017/Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings-London-03 July 2017: GDP growth in ‘frontier’ emerging markets slowed further in 2016 as Nigeria, Ecuador, Belarus and Angola saw outright declines in GDP. However, ‘frontier’ market (FM) countries are now starting to see an improvement in trade growth, according to Fitch Ratings’ latest ‘Frontier […]

June 30, 2017 ByEbere ECHENDU On Monday, 26th of June, 2017, Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, now the President of African Development Bank, Dr. AkinwumiAdesina, was announced as the winner of the 2017 World Food Prize, at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Washington D.C. The World […]

Culled—Proshare June 29, 2017/FSDH Research Emerging and developing countries, including Nigeria, are expected to be mainly affected by the United States Federal Reserve Rate (U.S Fed Rate) increase action. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral institutions have commented in their various global economic reports about the probable negative […]