British International Investment Commits $50m To Access Bank
British Deputy High Commissioner, Jonny Baxter, said, “When smaller businesses and women entrepreneurs are economically empowered, their whole community benefits.
July 2024
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China-Africa-UNIDO Centre of Excellence Opens in Addis-Ababa
▪︎Melaku Alebel, Luo Zhaohui, Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) and DG Gerd Müller. ▪︎ ETHIOPIA The Ethiopian Minister of Industry, Melaku Alebel, has officially inaugurated the China-Africa-UNIDO Centre of Excellence located in Addis – Ababa. UNIDO reports that the centre is a pioneering tripartite initiative, to promote sustainable industrialization, agricultural modernization,…
The Narendra Modi Stadium Built With 11,000 tons of Steel Rebars – WSA
The Narendra Modi Stadium in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India is one of the latest and most impressive examples of steel-framed construction projects. ” Holding all of this together are over 11,000 tons of steel rebars, 8,400 tons of which was steel supplied in cut and bend form; 41,000 couplers and 84,000 threads, all supplied…
Bauxite And Alumina Industry in Guinea Gets Attention for Manpower Development
This partnership is a core driver of Alteo’s alumina refinery (ARG) project to build an alumina Refinery in Boke region.
Zimbabwe’s Steel Industry Revitalized with New $1.5 Billion Plant
Zimbabwe’s got itself a brand new iron and steel manufacturing plant, courtesy of the Chinese. Metal Miner reports that this U.S. $1.5 billion Chinese-built plant’s blast furnace recently came online and is already producing pig iron, a crucial ingredient for making steel. The team over at Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco), the Zimbabwean subsidiary of Chinese…
GEF Council approves $700M+ for vast environmental needs
◇ GEF Council The Global Environment Facility’s governing body has approved more than $700 million for nature protection and renewal projects, including support for the Great Green Wall and investment in large-scale initiatives for sustainable cities, cleaner industries, improved ocean and land health, and greater climate change resilience. The funding from the GEF Trust Fund, Least…
FIRS achieves 170,000 new taxpayers
Now with just a click on the taxpromax, taxpayers can handle all their obligations seamlessly.
MAN Leaderships with AfCFTA Secretary
L-R: Otunba Francis Meshioye, President MAN; Wamkele Keabetswe Mene, Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA); and Segun Ajayi-Kadir, Director-General, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) during the day two of the Manufacturers Summit in Abuja.
Nigeria’s Kamar Bakrin Chairs ISO Administrative Committee
◇ Kamar Bakrin The Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Kamar Bakrin, has been elected Chairman of the International Sugar Organisation (ISO)‘s Administrative Committee. This is one of the outcomes of the 64th Council Meeting of the ISO which took place in New Delhi, India. The Administrative Committee is responsible for…
Adedeji’s One Year Scorecards at FIRS
Achieved 81 percent of the collection of the first quarter of 2024 amounting to N3.94 trillion being an all-time highest in the same quarter and 56 percent higher than Q1 2023.