Obinna Ezugwu

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Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has secured a landmark €250 million, 10-year term loan facility from Italy’s Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), with backing from SACE, the Italian export credit agency fully owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The facility is structured under a development cooperation framework and is 80% guaranteed by SACE.

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More than 650 people have been killed in Iran following a week-long wave of Israeli airstrikes, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The group reported on Friday that 657 people have lost their lives and 2,037 others have been injured since Israel began its bombing campaign, which has targeted military and nuclear facilities across Iran. The Iranian government has not released official casualty figures since the attacks began.

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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been served with a contempt charge by the Federal High Court in Abuja, following his alleged refusal to comply with a mandamus order regarding the leadership of the National Rescue Mission (NRM) party. The court bailiff, Ayuba Sule, served the Form 48—an official notice warning of the consequences of disobeying a court order—on Thursday at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.

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Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s biggest bank by Tier-1 capital, has assured shareholders and investors of its readiness to satisfy all relevant conditions to exit the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) regulatory forbearance by June 30, 2025. The bank also expressed confidence in meeting shareholders’ dividend expectations in the 2025 financial year.

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More than 700 youth in underserved communities across 11 African countries have benefited from Paradigm Initiative’s (PIN) Life Skills, ICTs, Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship (LIFE) training within the past year, the organisation has revealed.