Observers backed Adesina’s view, noting that while these loans offer developing countries the funding they need, they can be expensive and subject to commodity price fluctuations, making repayment difficult. 01:25 China-funded infrastructure across Africa force difficult decisions for its leaders China-funded infrastructure across Africa force difficult decisions for its leaders Known as the “Angola model”,
The Chief Executive Officer of one of the leading cryptocurrency platforms in Nigeria, NoOnes, Ray Youssef, has revealed that peer-to-peer popularly known as P2P is probably like $500bn business in Nigeria alone. Youssef said this in an interview with Techpoint Africa on the heels of an imminent ban on cryptocurrency in the country. Speaking on
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When Ademola Adesina founded a startup to provide solar and battery-based power subscription packages to individuals and businesses in Nigeria in 2015, it was a lot harder to raise money than it is today. Climate tech was new in Africa, the continent was a fledgling destination for venture capital money, there
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria secured a $600 million investment in seaport infrastructure from Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday. The investment was secured during a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and Moller-Maersk Chairman Robert Maersk Uggla on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting in Saudi Arabia.
Two Binance executives have sued the Nigerian government following their detention by the African nation. The cryptocurrency execs filed suit last week against Nigeria’s national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and country’s Economic Financial Crimes Commission for violating their fundamental human rights, Coindesk reported Friday (March 29), citing local media reports. In their court filings, Tigran Gambaryan, head of
Researchers at CoinGecko say 42% of loans from private credit protocols focus on emerging markets, particularly in the automotive sector. Private credit protocols — like Centrifuge and Goldfinch — allocate over 42% of their outstanding loans to a car financing, CoinGecko has revealed in a recent research report, adding that the sum is totaling more
In his years as a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan helped to lead landmark investigations that took down cryptocurrency thieves and money launderers, dark-web drug dealers, and even crypto-funded child exploitation networks. Now, in his post-government role at the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, he has become the target himself of a very different sort of federal