African Export–Import Bank bank. At the annual general meeting of the bank in Abuja, during which it also commemorated its 25th anniversary, Nigeria's minister of finance Kemi Adeosun was elected chairman of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the bank, taking over from Ndagijimana Uzziel, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Rwanda, who served as chairman since the previous annual general meeting held in Kigali in 2017. , the bank's shareholders, totaling 146, were divided into four categories: African Export–Import Bank African Export–Import Bank, also referred to as Afreximbank, is an African financial institution, headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, whose primary objective is
Abuja for Abuja came because of Lagos' population boom that made that city overcrowded and conditions squalid. As Lagos was already undergoing rapid economic development, the Nigerian regime felt the need to expand the economy towards the inner part of the country, and hence decided to move its capital to Abuja. The logic used was similar to the way Brazil planned its capital, Brasília. The decision to move to Abuja was made by General Murtala Mohammed in 1976. Construction started in the late 1970s but, due to economic and political instability, the initial stages of the city were not complete until