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David and Goliath

Nigeria: Guaranty Trust Bank’s holding company can lift profit, analysts say

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Nigeria’s biggest bank by market value, is close to obtaining regulatory approval for a holding company structure, ... which analysts say will lift profitability.

A worker is pictured at the Stena forth drill rig for Springfield Group, the first independent African energy company to discover oil in deep sea, at the sea near Takoradi

energy transitions

Exxon’s exit from Ghana may be first sign of majors quitting Africa

Ghana's upstream petroleum sector is going through a tricky patch. American giant ExxonMobil's unexpected exit from the sector has only ramped ... up anxiety. And it is not just Exxon: TotalEnergies is also actively moving away from crude in Nigeria. Ghana will need to aggressively tackle many challenges while quickly repositioning itself in the face of a global energy transition.

Blue Skies

Nigeria: Aviation newcomers could use code-sharing to overcome weak naira

The rush of new entrants into Nigeria’s aviation industry will need to cooperate as airlines grapple with the prospect of further naira weakness, ... Seyi Adewale, CEO of Nigerian freight forwarding company Mainstream Cargo, tells The Africa Report.

African startups

Chipper Cash, Mubawab, WeFarm…When Jeff Bezos and Naspers mark the return of megadeals in Africa

If 2020 was marked by a wait-and-see attitude and small investments, 2021 already seems set to be a huge year for African technology. ...

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David and Goliath

Nigeria: Guaranty Trust Bank’s holding company can lift profit, analysts say

A worker is pictured at the Stena forth drill rig for Springfield Group, the first independent African energy company to discover oil in deep sea, at the sea near Takoradi

energy transitions

Exxon’s exit from Ghana may be first sign of majors quitting Africa

Blue Skies

Nigeria: Aviation newcomers could use code-sharing to overcome weak naira

David and Goliath

Nigeria: Guaranty Trust Bank’s holding company can lift profit, analysts say

A worker is pictured at the Stena forth drill rig for Springfield Group, the first independent African energy company to discover oil in deep sea, at the sea near Takoradi

energy transitions

Exxon’s exit from Ghana may be first sign of majors quitting Africa

Blue Skies

Nigeria: Aviation newcomers could use code-sharing to overcome weak naira

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Book Review

Can Africa turn government debt from burden to solution?

Africa needs debt, and it needs to find ways to put it to the best use. That’s the central claim made by Gregory Smith in his book 'Where Credit ... is Due: How Africa’s Debt Can Be a Benefit, Not a Burden', published this week by Hurst & Co in the UK.

missed opportunities

Nigeria’s oil dispute has ‘wasted two decades’; with the green transition, is that wealth lost forever?

For decades, oil investment into Nigeria has been stymied by regulatory uncertainty, with successive governments failing to pass the 'Petroleum ... Industry Bill' or PIB. Now, as oil majors worldwide see the green transition coming, they are transitioning out of high-cost environments like Nigeria. The risk is Nigeria has missed out on the swan song of the oil industry.

unemployment south africa

GROWING PAINS

South Africa’s economy hits 4% growth, but private sector is still not hiring

On 1 June, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) released the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) results for the first quarter of 2021, which ... was followed by the GDP report on Tuesday 8 June. The latest figures show unemployment has reached highs last recorded during the 2008 global financial crisis.

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Wheels of Trade

Afreximbank to use Cameroon as central African gateway

Afreximbank will use its new branch in Cameroon as a base to build its operations in central Africa, executive vice-president Denys Denya tells ... The Africa Report.

Making waves

Senegal/Côte d’Ivoire: Wave, the fintech that’s shaking up the mobile money industry?

Created by two Americans to lower the cost of mobile money transactions, Wave has been in the spotlight ever since Orange tried to curb its development ... in Senegal.

naspers

Hanging Separately?

Naspers shareholder Excelsia unimpressed by Prosus response

The response by Prosus to news that 35 institutional investors of South African media conglomerate Naspers are protesting the company’s share ... swap with its Amsterdam-listed unit has failed to win over dissident shareholder Excelsia Capital.

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