Kindly leave a comment and share The sun rises early over Djeffa, a locality in southeastern Benin’s Sèmè-Podji district where Justine Gantekpin is already tending to her flourishing vegetable farm. Thanks to the African Development Fund Project for Support of Agricultural Infrastructure in the Ouémé Valley (http://apo-opa.co/3Ydp5vP), Gantekpin has expanded […]
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NASENI trains procurement officers, others on global best practices
Kindly leave a comment and share Chuks Udo Okonta The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) is organizing a 3-day procurement in-house training for all procurement and other relevant officers in NASENI system -wide to acquaint them with best procurement operations and in line with global practices. The […]
British International Investment, Ecobank Sierra Leone sign $25m risk sharing agreement to boost private sector growth
Kindly leave a comment and share Chuks Udo Okonta The facility will increase lending to businesses in Sierra Leone where access to finance is limited, support local currency lending and provide longer-term loans which are generally unavailable. It demonstrates BII’s ability to act as a first mover in frontier markets, […]
Fossil Fuels to Power 60% of Africa’s Energy by 2040
Kindly leave a comment and share Chuks Udo Okonta By 2040, up to 60% of the African energy matrix will be fossil fuel driven, Anibor Kragha, Executive Secretary of the African Refiners and Distributors Association remarked at a FAMAR-sponsored panel discussion during the Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) conference on […]
Presidential directives on Nigerian Content has eliminated middlemen – NCDMB
Kindly leave a comment and share Chuks Udo Okonta The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) announced on Monday that it had eliminated middlemen from the oil and gas industry value chain and contributed to shortening the oil industry contracting cycle to six months, courtesy of the three Presidential […]
NAIPE 2024 annual conference holds tomorrow Tuesday October 8
Kindly leave a comment and share All is now set for the 2024 national conference of the Nigerian Association of Insurance and Pension Editors (NAIPE) to hold on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. The conference which has as it’s theme “Towards A $1 Trillion Economy: Roles of Insurance And Pension Sectors,” […]
Tackling issue of insecurity rests solely on leadership – Buratai
Kindly leave a comment and share Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has sought support for the administration of President Bola Tinubu to deliver the reforms in the power sector as well as his other reform programmes for the benefit of Nigerians. In a message delivered at […]
Online publishers charged to drive Nigeria’s quest for global financial inclusion
•GOCOP President charges new members on ridding the media space of fake news Kindly leave a comment and share Nigeria must key into global financial inclusion and the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) must lead in the awareness that may help Nigeria achieve this. The charge was handed down […]
$16b alleged expenditure probe delayed Nigeria’s power sector reforms – Imoke
Kindly leave a comment and share Chuks Udo Okonta A former minister of power, who later served as governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, on Thursday, in Lokoja, stated that alleged “expenditure” of a phantom $16 billion on the power sector by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration never happened. […]
GOCOP President urges members to stay with ethical online journalism
*Max Amuchie harps on revenue, shows hanging fruits Kindly leave a comment and share The President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Maureen Chigbo, has called on the more than 100 members of the Guild to make decisions that would distinguish them as entrepreneurs in the online media […]