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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra Ghana- The informal sector in South Africa is showing signs of a movement away from cash, a new Mastercard study has found. In a white paper titled ‘Driving Financial Inclusion In South Africa’s Informal Economy: The Landscape At The Bottom Of The Pyramid’, Mastercard interviewed underserved consumers and Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in the informal sector in South Africa to establish factors that would...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – Etienne Bailey – the Director of the Project Implementation Unit at the TRANSCO CLSG steered the team followed by TRANSCO’s Engineering Coordinator – Erik Achi, and the Procurement and Contract Management Specialist – Mohamed Keita. TRACTEBEL-ENGIE the Owner’s Engineer for TRANSCO CLSG and AECOM the Owner’s Engineer for OMVG participated in the Meeting. The OMVG was represented by its General...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, which covers an area calculated at 2,635 hectares— about times the size of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria—is anticipated to be Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the world’s enormous single-train facility. A single-train refinery wields a single integrated processing unit to perform all refining operations such as distillation, cracking, and purification. The...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – In the opening of Tanga City’s largest Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) depot constructed by Lake Gas Limited – a branch of the Lake Group of Companies Managing Director/CEO of Absa Bank Tanzania Limited – Obeid Laiser vowed to bolster the corporation’s undertakings to boost investment in LPG merchandise by way to curtail the usage of charcoal and save the environment....