Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Group and Africa’s richest person, says the refinery will begin processing crude by the third quarter of 2022. According to bloomberg the business mogul said mechanical work on the refinery is done, and “hopefully before the end of the third quarter we should be in the market”. He said this…
A British Journalist working for Voice of America and Aljazerra , Henry Wilkins has narrated his ordeal in the hands of mutinying soldiers in troubled Burkina Faso. In series of tweets , Wilkins explained how the protesting soildiers apprehended him and his colleagues and later passed seriea of demands to the authorities. “BurkinaFaso Mutiny –…
By Ted McCoy(Contribute to Globe and Mail) Kaycee Madu is on leave from his position as Alberta’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, pending a probe into whether a call to Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee to discuss a traffic stop was an attempt to interfere with the administration of justice. The scandal around Kaycee Madu’s actions…
Germany holds the presidency of the G7 in 2022. We take a look at the Group of Seven and the goals of the German government 2022 is the third time that Germany has assumed the G7 presidency. The German government has set itself a number of goals for its one-year presidency of this group of seven leading…
A Mauritanian delegation to Bamako, including Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Minister of Interior and the Director General of Security, has met the Malian authority to reveal the circumstances surounding the killing of seven Mauritanians on Malian soil. After the meeting, the Bamako government pledged to open a transparent and diligent investigation into…
Defense, Aerospace and Space Cluster Association SAHA Istanbul Chairman of the Board and Baykar General Manager Haluk Bayraktar evaluated the performance of the sector in 2021 to AA correspondent. Stating that Turkey is facing the positive outcomes of its vision of nationalization step by step from year to year, Bayraktar emphasized that the biggest success of the sector…
While commending the architects of census taking in Nigeria in 2022, I wish to seize this opportunity to use this medium to express my disenchantments and observations on how the critics of the funding and conduct of the National Census have got it all wrong. One group of critics has opined that the census taking…
The large number of displaced Nigerians, in addition to proximity to the 2023 General Elections, formed the crux of the call for the postponement of the 2022 Population Census by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) in a communique issued at the end of a recent meeting in Kaduna. Within the context of relatively high prevalence…
There are reports of sporadic shooting in some military barracks across Burkina Faso. While details are sketchy , the situation is reported to be an attempted coup. According to DW reports, Gunshots were heard at several barracks located in the capital, Ouagadougou. The government denied social media reports that the army has seized power. Heavy…
In the two previous Corona years, there was a loss of value added in Germany of around 350 billion euros. Over the past eight quarters, consumption has fallen by 270 billion euros. If the pandemic hadn’t happened, investments would have been around 60 billion euros higher. Pandemic-related government spending and, above all, foreign trade noticeably dampened the overall…
