{"id":175963,"date":"2024-07-05T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-historic-moment-as-nigeria-wins-bid-to-host-africas-5bn-energy-bank-beats-ghana-safrica-cote-divoire\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:31:12","slug":"africa-historic-moment-as-nigeria-wins-bid-to-host-africas-5bn-energy-bank-beats-ghana-safrica-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-historic-moment-as-nigeria-wins-bid-to-host-africas-5bn-energy-bank-beats-ghana-safrica-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Historic Moment As Nigeria Wins Bid to Host Africa&#8217;s $5bn Energy Bank, Beats Ghana, S&#8217;africa, Cote d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>* Industry operators laud continent&#8217;s first oil financial institution<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Emmanuel Addeh and Peter Uzoho in Abuja<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">After months of international politicking and massive lobbying, Nigeria yesterday finally won the right to host the $5 billion African Energy Bank (AEB), first of its kind on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nigeria was granted the hosting rights for the bank at an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO), the umbrella body for oil-producing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Industry operators laud continent&#8217;s first oil financial institution Emmanuel Addeh and Peter Uzoho in Abuja After months of international politicking and massive lobbying, Nigeria yesterday finally won the right to host the $5 billion African Energy Bank (AEB), first of its kind on the continent. Nigeria was granted the hosting rights for the bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[48957,258,256,6287,7089,8798,10798,5958,6183,6555,5959,7424,4508,13203,6937,1218,14193,257,4687,28452,254,6552],"class_list":["post-175963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-5bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-bank","tag-beats","tag-bid","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-energy","tag-ghana","tag-historic","tag-host","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-moment","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-safrica","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}