Speech by the President of EBID, Dr George Donkor on ECOWAS Day On 28th May 2020, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its financial arm, EBID, will be forty-five (45) years old. The last four decades have witnessed the Community and its Bank develop resolutely from an ECOWAS of States to an […]
The 18th Ordinary Meeting of the Board of Governors of ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) held at the headquarters of the Bank in Lomé, Togolese Republic, unanimously appointed the Honourable Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Togo, Mr. Sani Yaya, as new Chairman of the Board of Governors. He took […]
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has donated the amount of one million five hundred thousand United States dollars ($1.5m) to assist in strengthening the bold emergency measures that ECOWAS Member States are taking to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) menace. Estimates indicate that the ECOWAS region has the third largest number of confirmed […]
The 67th meeting of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) was held on Thursday, April 7 2020. It was Bank’s first regional teleconference zoom meeting and was coordinated from the headquarters in Lomé, Togolese Republic. Overall, the Board approved three projects, two of which were from the public sector, and one from the […]
As part of initial working visits to ECOWAS Member States, the President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Dr. George Agyekum Nana Donkor, met with His Excellency Faure Gnassingbe at the Presidency in Lomé, on 10th March 2020. Fielding questions from reporters after the meeting, Dr. Donkor said that the purpose of […]
The newly appointed President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Dr. George Agyekum Nana Donkor, paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Villa Abuja, on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020. Dr. Donkor was accompanied by the former President, Mr. Bashir Mamman Ifo. The EBID delegation which included some officers […]
On Wednesday 5th March 2020, the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) represented by the President, Dr. George Agyekum Nana DONKOR, signed a loan agreement in the amount of twenty-one million one hundred thousand United States dollars (US$21.1m) at the Ministry of Finance and Economy, in Cotonou, with the Government of the Republic of […]
On Monday, 17th February 2020, the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) represented by the President, Dr. George Agyekum Nana DONKOR, signed three private sector loan agreements at the headquarters of the Bank in Lome, in the amount of eighteen million thirty-two thousand Euros (€18.032m) with two companies in Mali namely, Société YATTASSAYE & COMPAGNIE (SOYATT SA) […]
The newly appointed President, Dr. George DONKOR, paid a courtesy visit to His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at Jubilee House Accra on 31 January 2020. The delegation from EBID included the former President, Mr. Bashir IFO. Addressing the delegation, His Excellency Akufo-Addo, congratulated Dr. DONKOR on his appointment and urged him to remain efficient […]
The Maria – Gleta 2 120MW Thermal Power Station in the Republic of Benin, financed by a consortium comprising the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Banque Ouest Africaine de Development (BOAD) in collaboration with the Republic of Benin, was commissioned on 29th August 2019. The project […]
