Category: Nigeria

African Development Fund extends $3 million in additional financing for Liberia’s Special Agro-Processing Zone scheme

photo: Women selling various grains at a community market in Monrovia, Liberia. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an additional $3 million of mixed financing for the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone project in Liberia. The financing, approved on 12 October 2022, comprises a loan of $2.92 million and an $80,000 grant sourced from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group’s concessional lending arm for the continent’s low-income countries. On 20 October 2021, the African […]

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Egypt and Nigeria medicines regulators achieve high maturity level in WHO classification and WHO launches list of regulatory authorities that meet international standards

Today, WHO announced that Egypt’s and Nigeria’s medical products regulatory agencies had reached maturity level 3. This means that these national bodies have been found to function well and that they could be eligible for inclusion into the transitional WHO Listed Authorities, a list that will comprise the world’s regulators of reference – that is, regulatory authorities that should be globally recognized as meeting WHO and other international standards. Egypt has reached maturity level 3 for vaccines regulation (locally produced […]

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Africa Oil Week is known for gathering vast numbers of African and international energy ministers

African Union Commission, AfCFTA and former heads of state from Nigeria and Malawi amongst first government leaders confirmed for Africa Oil Week 2021 Hyve Group Plc, organisers of Africa Oil Week (www.Africa-OilWeek.com) have released the first line-up of Ministers who will be attending the 2021 event due to take place in Dubai 8-11 November. The initial line-up consists of two former African Presidents, Commissioner for the African Union Commission, Secretary General for AfCFTA and Ministers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, […]

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EU – Talent Partnerships

TALENT PARTNERSHIPS – EU Commission launches new initiative to address EU skills shortages and improve migration cooperation with partner countries Today, the Commission is launching Talent Partnerships, a key initiative under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum that will help to address skills shortages in the European Union and to strengthen mutually-beneficial partnerships on migration with third countries. Matching the skills of workers from countries outside the EU with the labour market needs inside the EU, Talent Partnerships should […]

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We need to treat Africa’s oil and gas industry as a brand of leadership

The African Oil Industry is at a cross roads and going into COP26, we need to have an African Agenda on energy transition and energy poverty Following Africa’s Oil Week announcement of moving their flagship Cape Town event to Dubai, H.E Mahaman Laouan Gaya, Former APPO SG and Former Petroleum Minister of Niger Republic has expressed his dissatisfactory views of the annual industry conference leaving the continent. He criticizes the “humiliating idea” of African Oil Week in Dubai and urges […]

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In Nigeria, a mother’s search for tasty, nutritious food for her son spurs a baby food revolution

For Women’s History Month, we spotlight Oluwaseun Sangoleye, founder of Baby Grubz, a Nigerian baby food company. As a first runner-up in the African Development Bank’s 2020 AgriPitch competition, Sangoleye and Baby Grubz received a $10,000 grant from the Bank’s Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund. We asked Sangoleye about her journey to change the way mothers think about nutrition and feeding their babies. When Oluwaseun Sangoleye became a mother for the first time in 2012, she had no […]

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Ehingbeti: Lagos Economic Summit 2021

What: 8th Lagos Economic Summit: discussing issues critical to development of the mega city Who: African Development Bank President Akinwumi. A. Adesina and other high-level representatives of the private sector and government When: Tuesday, 16 February 10:40am – 10-55am (WAT) Where: Virtual. Click here to register : https://www.ehingbetisummit.com/register-sme African Development Bank president Akinwumi. A. Adesina will deliver a keynote address at the Lagos Economic Summit on February 16 at 10:40am – 10-55am (WAT). The theme of Dr. Adesina’s speech will […]

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