Mali’s and Algeria’s ministers of energy, Malick Alhousseini and Noureddine Bouterfa respectively, are working on ways to implement the energy cooperation agreement established between the two nations in November 2016. The cooperation is to help Mali benefit from Algeria’s experience in terms of construction and management of solar and wind stations as well as in terms of power network...

Cote d’Ivoire recently signed with the African Development Bank (AfDB) three funding agreements valued at FCFA70 billion (€107 million) to support three agricultural projects which aim to modernize the nation’s agriculture. In details, the first project focuses on the development of agricultural value chains in the Indénié-Djuablin region which is in the Central-Eastern part of the...

In Togo, last Saturday, the people of Bè Massouhouin, angered, are demanding for the lands taken from them in 1977 by the government to be returned. “We, the people of Bè, initially had a total of 900 hectares of lands. However, the State took half of these saying it was for public use. It is on these lands that the State built all infrastructures found in the Lomé II area.” “The...

Qatar and Morocco signed a partnership agreement to build the Fask hydropower dam on the Oued Sayad 40 km East of Guelmin. The agreement was initialed in Rabat by Abdallah Daoussari, Qatar’s ambassador to Morocco, Charafat Afilal, Morocco’s deputy minister of Water and Mohamed Hassad, the Moroccan minister of interior. Fully funded by Qatar ($150 million), the Fask hydropower dam project...

South Korean car maker Kia Moors plans to build in Batna, Algeria, a car assembly unit, reported Algerian radio station Chaine III on Feb 15, 2017, citing the region’s governor, Mohamed Salamani. “Three files are being examined by the authorities of the Batna wilaya and the ministries of industry and power. These include a project to build a Kia car assembly unit with Korean partners,”...

The Catfish Association of Nigeria (CAFAN) on Tuesday revealed that Nigeria produced 370,000 metric tonnes of catfish in 2016. The National President of the Association, Tayo Akingbolagun who disclosed this during the association’s Annual General Meeting in Benin puts the value of the production at over N175 billion ($556million). Akingbolagun noted that fish feeds alone accounts for...

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has announced that the Federal Government approved the 2016 intervention fund for tertiary institutions in Nigeria with the release and utilization to be implemented this year. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Abdullahi Baffa (photo), at a media briefing on Monday. According to him, the fund is valued at more than N213.4...

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari (photo), has again written, demanding a longer period of rest in the UK. According to Vanguard, Buhari wrote through his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina on Tuesday. “President Muhammadu Buhari thanks millions of Nigerians who have been sending good wishes and praying for his health and well-being in mosques and churches...

The Nigerian Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun (photo, left), has said that Nigeria does not need to apply for an International Monetary Fund programme to fund its budget deficit as the government is currently pursuing its own economic reform plan. “For us the IMF is really a lender of last resort when you have balance of payments problem. Nigeria doesn't have balance of payments problems...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has acquired 110 rice milling machines to be installed in different parts of the country to boost rice production, according to Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President. “To support the growing rice industry, the Federal Government just acquired 110 rice milling machines which will be installed in different parts of...