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Nigeria hosts Africa Emerging Markets Forum in Nigeria
The In late July 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria announced that it will host the 7th Africa Emerging Markets Forum in Abuja on 29‑30 July 2026, framing the Abuja. The two‑day event around event, organized with the Emerging Markets Forum and the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa, will be held under the theme “Building Resilience Amidst Geoeconomic Uncertainties”. The programme was set to include Uncertainties” and will feature a high‑level fireside dialogue between CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso and WTO Director‑General Ngozi Okonjo‑Iweala, along with keynote speeches by Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele and Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Kingsley Udeh. Participants were expected to discuss Okonjo‑Iweala. Subsequent coverage highlighted the agenda’s focus on macro‑economic stability, regional integration, fintech, infrastructure, AI, food‑price volatility and monetary‑policy transmission. Two days later, coverage highlighted the same dialogue, emphasizing how the speakers would explore ways for African economies to sustain reforms AI and unlock long‑term growth amid a fragmented global landscape. Okonjo‑Iweala referenced food‑price volatility, while also noting Okonjo‑Iweala’s remarks on Nigeria’s $30 billion Paris Club debt relief achieved under former President Obasanjo, crediting a targeted communications strategy, and warned that ethnic, religious and regional divisions continue to impede development. The forum’s agenda therefore expanded from a broad resilience theme to concrete examples of past debt‑relief success and the political challenges that remain. Overall, the two snapshots trace the progression from the event’s announcement importance of public‑affairs communication in implementing reforms. Nigerian finance and thematic framing science ministers were slated to a more detailed focus on policy coordination, debt‑relief outcomes, deliver keynote addresses, underscoring coordinated fiscal, monetary and the sociopolitical hurdles confronting innovation policies for Africa’s economic transformation. long‑term growth.