AFDB Drums Support for Light Up Sahel Initiative

An African initiative to increase solar generation capacity to provide 250 million people with electricity access across Africa’s Sahel region for socio-economic development continues to attract financial support from around the world. Launched in 2019 by the African Development Bank Group and its partners, the Desert to Power initiative is designed to make Africa a renewable power…

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PHOTO STORY: NACCIMA & ACCI Visits Autodex Nigeria Ltd

The factory is into fabrication and assembling of agricultural and automobile machineries such as; tractors, diesel hand steelers, grain driers, buses, tricycles, motorcycles, others. The Director of the factory, Mr Tony Efekandu who took the visiting team on a tour to different units of the factory (including grain drying, juice processing/packaging, rice mill, tomatoes processing…

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Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce Kicks Against Planned Hike of Excise Duty

The Chamber has noted with concern, recent reports in the media of plans by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and Financial Planning to effect a hike in the specific excise component of some products, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and tobacco, a significant digression from its recently adopted 2022 Fiscal Policy Measures and Tariffs…

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Addressing Climate Emergency in Africa: Balancing Global and Domestic Resources

By Tshepidi Moremong Climate finance has mostly focused on mitigation measures – new investments that will keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming. But as extreme weather events devastate countries and regions ever more frequently, there must be an equal focus on adaptation and resilience in dealing with the climate crisis that is unfolding…

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Gen. Buba Marwa to Deliver Realnews 10th Anniversary Lecture

Lagos, October 30, 2022 – THE Management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced that His Excellency, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, will deliver the Realnews 10th Anniversary Lecture. Brig Gen. Marwa’s acceptance to deliver the lecture was communicated to Realnews in a…

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Côte d’Ivoire: African Development Bank Financed ‘4th Abidjan Bridge’ nears Completion

Work on the African Development Bank-financed ‘4th Abidjan bridge’ is 62% complete. This majestic structure, laid out on the right flank of the Attécoubé commune in central Abidjan, is gradually taking shape and its future users can now see it from a good distance. The “fourth bridge” of the Ivorian economic capital, currently under construction,…

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