In partnership with MainOne, the Lagos State government launched a free public Wi-Fi project in Lagos. This, on the sidelines of the 50th anniversary of the State’s creation. The news was disclosed by the Executive Governor of the Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode. He said the project will cover parks and gardens in the city. “Parks and Gardens are established to provide conducive environment...

Management Environmental Finance (MEFIN Srl), an Italian firm specialized in waste management said it is interested in establishing a €40 million waste-recycling plant in Calabar, Cross River State. “It will cost Cross River nothing to install the plant as the company is committed to using the state as its pilot for the establishment of the plant in Nigeria and it is going to invest 40...

Is Eurofind going to enter the Ivorian cocoa and cashew processing market soon? This is what suggests a meeting between the firm’s chief executive, Adham El Khalil, and Cote d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, news website Koaci reported. Though Eurofind did not give full details regarding its plans, the company said it has the government’s support if it intends to enter...

Nigeria’s oil pipeline Trans Forcados is expected to load at least two cargoes of 950,000 barrels within this month, trading sources revealed. This will be the first cargoes to be loaded since November 2016. This comes a few days after other traders disclosed that Shell was conducting tests at the pipeline. Therefore, Shell may be part of those loading one of the two cargoes this month. Shell...

On May 11, about a hundred people from the Kiponda chiefdom in Kipushi, Katanga district, have led a protest at the Lubumbashi court. According to Radio Okapi who reported the news, the protesters denounced the “spoliation of their lands”. The protesters accuse the “municipal and customary authorities of Kipushi”, as well as the national cadaster office of selling their lands,...

In 2016, development aid from the French Development Agency (AFD) for Africa stood at €4 billion, up 25% compared to 2015. A performance which comes in a context where international aid for Africa is slumping. France’s contribution is spurred by major changes related to demography, society, ecology, energy, digital, technology, but also political changes. Out of the support from AFD to...

On May 11, the Nigerian parliament has approved the 2017 budget which stands at N7.44 trillion ($24.4 billion). This is about N1 trillion more the amount proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 14, 2016, knowingly 7.3 trillion naira ($23.2 billion). With the budget passed, the government will be able to borrow 2.3 trillion naira which is to be used to plug its budget deficit which...

The United Nations said it is seeking further $900 million this year to resolve crisis in Somalia where more than 6 million people, including about 275,000 malnourished children, need humanitarian aid. This was revealed on May 11 by UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres. “This morning, we presented the revised humanitarian response plan seeking an additional $900 million the end of...

In Morocco, starting from May 22, land owners will be notified via SMS of any operation related to their land title. The government thus decided to leverage on digital to end land spoliation in the country, announced the taskforce formed to draw urgent and efficient measures to deal with the phenomenon, at the end of a recent meeting. Entitled "Achkhbar titre" (which means ‘what’s up with my...

From 10% as its president previously announced, the Ivorian government has decided to cut its 2017 budget by 9% (FCFA54 billion), bringing it to FCFA6.447 trillion, amid global slump (about 35%) in prices of cocoa, the country’s main export. Besides the slump in prices of cocoa of which Cote d’Ivoire is the leading exporter, the revision of budget is also explained by a rising pressure from...