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Here are some things you need to know about the Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway line modernization, according to Railway-Technology.com:
Built in China, paid for by China, built by Chinese, operated and maintained by Chinese — news media reports often describe the newly refurbished, high-speed Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway as a project in which China is fully vested.
But China didn’t
Muktar Ahmed, the Chairman of the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service, KDIRS, said the state government generated more than N17 billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2016. He said that N17 billion generated in 2016 represented an increase of …
Continue readingZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 92, reportedly spent at least $36m on foreign and domestic trips in the first 10 months of 2016. According to Zimbabwe Independent, this piled pressure on his cash-strapped government, which “is failing to buy painkillers for …
Continue readingIn what could be president Muhammadu Buhari’s first big publicized corruption win, the government will reclaim up to $153.3 million in misappropriated funds from Nigeria’s controversial former petroleum minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke.
Allison-Madueke, 56, who fled Nigeria soon after Buhari came …
Continue readingThe Kaduna State Government has begun the cultivation of 10,000 hectares of land to create job opportunities for 10,000 youths. The Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Industrialisation and Micro-Credit Management Board, Alhaji Sabi’u Sani-Isma’ila, disclosed this on Thursday.
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Continue readingSenegalese President Macky Sall has announced a 10% drop in the price of electricity “from the first semester of 2017” after the country saw a marked improvement in the supply of electricity thanks in particular to the commissioning of
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Continue readingEconomic slowdown due to falling commodity prices particularly oil and slow global economic growth, adversely affected most African economies in the course of 2016.
in the past year, the currencies of two We are happy to announce our winners in the 1st Small Businesses Support Fund #SBS2017. We got thousands of entries via the hashtag but the sorting process was made a lot easier once those that did not meet the stipulated …
Continue readingThe Federal Government will spend N400m on the purchase of vehicles for the nation’s former heads of government and their deputies in 2017. The figure formed part of the N9.882bn budgeted for the Office of the Secretary to the Government …
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