Updates

USDA Invests $8.3 Million to Address Trade Barriers and Expand Market Access for Specialty Crops

FY 2025 Trade Promotion Programs open market access for American producers September 23, 2025/USDA Foreign Agricultural Service The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced it is awarding $8.3 million in funding to help 11 U.S. recipients address trade barriers and expand international market access for U.S. specialty crops. The funding […]

Central Bank Poised to Ease the Benchmark Policy Rate

September 22, 2025/CSL Research The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) convenes today for a two-day meeting to decide on its fourth interest rate policy decision of the year, with the outcome expected by early Tuesday afternoon. We highlight that since the last MPC meeting […]

Dangote Refinery: Change Has Come to the Oil Sector, Nigerian Economy, Otedola Tells DAPPMAN

September 22, 2025/Dangote Group Nigeria’s billionaire businessman, Mr Femi Otedola, yesterday waded into the ongoing fuel supply disagreement between the Dangote Refinery and the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), advising the association to innovate or perish. The philanthropist stressed that he had followed the debate around […]