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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- On the 24th July 2020, the African Development Bank endorsed $27.4 million in grants to improve the African Union’s (AU) undertakings to marshal continental retort to deter the Novel Coronavirus Virus (COVID-19) plague. The authorization reaches on consensus at a committee of the expansive Bureau of the African Union Conference of Heads of State and Government with Africa’s special sector on...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Dangote Group’s fertilizer plant, now under construction in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos, will be ready to start production late this year. Owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, the facility located in the Lekki district of Nigeria’s commercial hub, has a name-plate capacity of 3 million tons a year of urea and ammonia, making it the world’s biggest. It is in the vicinity of a 650,000 barrels a day...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Botswana based coal miner – Minergy, that owns and operates the Masama Coal Mine in the Mmamabula coalfield, sent abroad its first coal by rail to South Africa on July 17th, 2020. The coal was loaded onto trucks and transported 60km to the rail at Tshele Hills, where the first of three trains – bound for an industrial client in the cement sector in South Africa – set off. Precisely, the...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA BUSINESS DAILY (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Big Brother Naija (BBN) reality TV show that’s incessant, started on July 19th, 2020 will generate an approximate Two Billion Naira into the Nigerian economy, according to financial sector stakeholders. MultiChoice – producers of the show told sources, have had to assure that, the show proof in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic is wielded under extensively severer standards in...