By Mark Longyen The ECOWAS Parliament has urged member states to accelerate investment in renewable energy, describing it as the pathway to bolstering rural electrification, economic transformation, and sustainable development across West Africa. Speaker of the Parliament, Hadja Memounatou Ibrahima, made this known at a five-day delocalised meeting of theContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen The ECOWAS Parliament is scheduled to begin a week-long meeting of its delocalised joint committee aimed at addressing West Africa’s renewable energy and electricity challenges in Dakar, Senegal, on Monday. A parliamentary statement on Sunday said the meeting is themed: “Harnessing Renewable Energy for Rural Electrification andContinue Reading
By Gabriel Agbeja The Ivorian Authority says the country loses about 200,000 hectares of forest annually due to farming and infrastructure development. LCL Kone Joachim, Assistant to the County Director of the Ministry of Water and Forestry in Bouaké Department, Gbêkê Region, disclosed this on Saturday. Joachim made the revelationContinue Reading
By Stephen Benjamin China has highlighted ethnic unity, poverty eradication and inclusive development as key pillars of its modernisation drive, saying the country’s ethnic governance model has contributed significantly to social stability and national development. Mr Ma Hong, Director of Theory Division, Department of Theory and Research, National Ethnic AffairsContinue Reading
By Stephen Benjamin African delegates attending seminars in China have condemned reported xenophobic attacks against foreign African nationals in South Africa and called for greater unity across the continent. The delegates made the condemnation while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of training programmes organisedContinue Reading
By Fortune Abang The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has urged Nigeria’s ambassadors and high commissioners-designate to ECOWAS member states to prioritise security cooperation with their host countries toward enhancing regional security. She made this known at a one-day strategic retreat organised by the ministry for Nigeria’s ambassadorsContinue Reading
By Maureen Okon The Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC) has embarked on a mission to Sierra Leone to explore opportunities for collaboration in critical sectors aimed at boosting national development. A statement by Mrs Ojo Olubunmi, Head of Information and Public Relations Unit of NTAC, said the Director-General of theContinue Reading
By Stephen Benjamin Participants from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East attending international seminars in China have commended the country’s approach to ethnic unity, governance and economic development, describing it as a model worthy of study by developing nations. The participants spoke in interviews with the News Agency ofContinue Reading
By Busayo Onijala The United Kingdom and Nigeria have unveiled a new £15 million Growth Programme aimed at unlocking private investment and accelerating economic transformation between them. The British High Commission made this known in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. It said the two countries unveiled the initiativeContinue Reading
By Okeoghene Akubuike The World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report says the ongoing conflict in the Middle-East is expected to slow global economic growth to its lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement from the bank’s Online Media Briefing Centre on Thursday noted that this was asContinue Reading
