Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:49
The over 750-kilometre-long line is the first electrified transnational railway in East Africa.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:45
Prince Uche Secondus, a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has attributed the lingering political crisis in Rivers State to the pursuit of selfish interest by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. While speaking to journalists in Abuja on Sunday,...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:40
Vice President Kashim Shettima has asserted that Nigeria’s tax reforms under the administration of President Bola Tinubu are targeted at improving the system for the overall benefit of all Nigerians and not to frustrate them as insinuated by the opposition. He said contrary to speculations in some...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:35
The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti has called on the founder of CSS Global Integrated Farms, Nasarawa State, John-Kennedy Opara to establish an agricultural farm in the state, assuring him that the state is business friendly. Otti made this call on Saturday, while speaking at a capacity-building...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:30
On a three-day visit to Nigeria to promote his Invictus Games, Prince Harry on Saturday played a seated volleyball match with army veterans, most wounded in battle against the country's Islamist insurgency.
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:20
Experts from ECOWAS member states held a meeting in Lomé, Togo, precisely between May 6 and 8, 2024, to examine in detail, the draft supplementary Act relating to cooperation in suppressing illicit maritime activities in the ECOWAS region. In order to guarantee that comprehensive, accurate, and...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:00
The Duchess was speaking at an event in Abuja to highlighted the importance of female leadership and empowerment.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 09:37
The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) held a validation workshop for the ECREEE 2023-2027 Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan Report the 9 May 2024 in […]
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 09:51
Nigeria’s lead female presidential Obiageli Ezekwesili has withdrawn from the race with just 22 days left to the much hyped polls.
In a statement released Thursday (24 January) she said she was stepping aside from “to help build a coalition to defeat” the two main contenders –...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 19:25
Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. For decades he was not only a household name in Africa, but across the globe and appealed to a diverse audiences. However, as we reported in the archive piece below when Ish Mafundikwa caught up with him back in 2012, there was much much more to the affable Tuku,...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 16:08
Perhaps for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the annual gathering of the world’s richest nations (and a fair sprinkling of those on the other side of the divide) for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos, Switzerland, will show more fissures than the proverbial Swiss...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 11:50
The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister could well prove to be a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Suddenly, everything is possible. By Mimi Alemayehou
Certain years in the life of a nation can be so pivotal that they represent a rebirth. Think of 1865,...
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Monday, January 21, 2019 - 17:15
Job Title Field: Chief of Section | Innovative Finance & Capital Markets Section (P5)
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Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is...
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