The Nigerian Minister for Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma (photo), has announced the Federal Government’s strategic plan for pulling the economy out of recession and restore growth. Speaking during the unveiling of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), 2017-2020 in Abuja, the minister said the aim of the ERGP, is to combat the current economic crisis, restore growth and...

Morocco will develop in Ivory Coast a trade and export platform for agro-food products, reports Moroccan newspaper Medias24. Backing the platform are means to transport the goods by sea. Its main purpose is to facilitate trade of agricultural products in the two nations and help Morocco boost its agricultural exports to Cote d’Ivoire and its surroundings. The decision to develop the platform...

In Mauritius, the tourism industry recorded more arrivals in 2016 than in 2015. Last year, the country received 1.28 million tourists, against 1.15 million the year before that (+11%). The surge was mainly spurred by a massive wave of European tourists (734,506) arriving in the country. This represents two-thirds of visiting tourists in 2016. Tourism being one of the lungs of Mauritius’...

Next February 1st, a conference on land reforms in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia will be held in the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation building in Paris. The event will be hosted by Omar Bessaoud, researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education of Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAM). Organized by the non-profit French law international association AGTER, the conference will focus on reviewing...

Italian multinational oil and gas company, Eni, has revealed plans deepen its involvement in Nigeria’s energy sector and help the country restore one of its ailing refineries. This was declared when the company’s Chief Executive, Claudio Descalzi met with the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Kachikwu, in Rome. Both parties signed several memorandum of...

Nigeria’s electricity supply has dropped from the 4,883.9 megawatts (mw) recorded in the past one month to 2,200mw, below the country’s installed capacity of 11,165.40mw. According to Nerus Ekezie, the Head of Programmes and Membership at the Institute of Directors’ Centre for Corporate Governance, this drop in electricity supply will aggravate the suffering of the citizens as the rate...

The Federal Government has gained access to a $67m World Bank loan to refurbish the Hadejia Valley Dam in Jigawa state. According to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Water Resources, Sen. Ubale Shittu, $60m would be used to rehabilitate and expand the dam by 1,000 hectares, while the remaining $7m would be expended on dredging of the river from Tiga Dam in Kano State to Koli in...

The office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has warned Nigerian migrants against travelling to Libya, where the punishment for illegal migration is death. Abike Dabiri-Erewa (photo) made the warning on Monday, following the emergence of videos and photographs of Nigerians being killed in the country. She said it is shocking to know that despite...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has released N375 million (about $1.2m) to feed about 700, 000 pupils, in five states as part of the implementation of its Social Investment Programmes. This was declared by Laolu Akande, the senior special assistant on media and publicity to the vice-president, in a statement in Abuja. According to him, the government released the amount for the execution...

Last Wednesday, Senegal’s Lawyers Association (AJS in French) has launched a training session on voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests. The meeting which ended on Friday 20, 2017, gathered about forty paralegals and rural actors from Fatick, Kaolack, Kédougou, Sédhiou and Kaffrine. “During these days, experts will train the participants....