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Dangote rewards loyalty

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Dangote Dangote Industries Limited (Dangote.com) recently presented 160 employees with long service awards in recognition of their commitment, loyalty, exceptional service and invaluable contribution to its growth.

‘We’ll apprehend Nigeria road accidents’

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Counterfeit motor spare parts have been blamed for the significant number of Nigeria road accidents and their resultant loss of lives and resources.

Equatorial Guinea $1bn projects slated for 2020

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Equatorial Guinea Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, has announced ten public-private partnership-led projects which will be open for investment in 2020.

India indicted in world conflict, corruption, human rights abuses

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A new report by IMPACT (www.IMPACTTransform.org) has revealed India as one of the largest gold smuggling hubs in the world.

Canon restates Africa education commitment with summit partnership

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The next Innovation Summit, which brings African policy makers together to discuss the subject of education, will be held December 3-5, 2019 in Accra, Ghana.

2025 target set for Africa hunger

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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) under the auspices of the Joint Secretariat Support Office (JSSO) have launched the agriculture and food security joint Thematic Working Group (TWG) on the margins of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa which began in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on Monday, November 25 and will end tomorrow, the 29 th .

Hungary sturdily opposes migration with billions

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European nation, Hungary, has insisted that it’s strongly against any policies, agreements and suchlike that support the Europe migration of Africans.

CMC Gladiators visit newly promoted AIG Ahmed Iliyasu

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Iliyasu (left) being presented with the jersey On Tuesday the 26th of November, 2019, a team of CMC Gladiators of Repute led by the founder, Ambassador Cornell Udofia, paid a courtesy visit to the newly promoted AIG Ahmed Iliyasu, one of CMC’s grand patrons, at Zone 2 Onikan, Lagos State.

Peter P-Square sells Atlanta home to spite brothers

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Peter In January 2014, the news made the rounds that the singing twins, P-Square, had bought two homes in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

US $430m for Egypt energy security

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Adam Boehler, Chief Executive Officer of the US International Development Finance Corporation, has announced a commitment to provide $430m in insurance to advance energy security in Egypt by rehabilitating a natural gas pipeline and transporting natural gas from fields offshore in Israel.

Sudan millions in grave danger

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Millions of people are in grave danger in Sudan due to erratic weather, multiple disease outbreaks and economic crisis.

$1m prize split to accommodate deserving applicants

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The Board of Trustees, Al-Sumait Prize for African Development, have jointly awarded the one-million-dollar 2019 prize in the field of food security.

Gender equality is not the big deal -Adesina

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Adesina The 2019 Global Gender Summit, the first to be held on the continent, kicked off on Monday, November 25 in Kigali, Rwanda with a strong call to surge ahead on gender issues and move from commitment to action.

NGO locks horns with alleged Kenya pornographic show

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Kioko A Kenya TV show, 10 Over 10 , has been alleged to be pornographic and therefore unsuitable for public consumption by the international non-governmental organization, CitizenGO.

Solution sought to pharmaceutical threat to Africa prosperity

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If you weren’t previously aware, know it now then that Africa is home to just 11% of the world’s population yet it carries 25% of the world’s disease burden.

Land corruption to dominate Abidjan dialogue

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Cote d’Ivoire will this week become the hotbed for what has been described as one of the worst corruption practices confronting Africa.