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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Dangote Cement Plc is to train and support members of cooperative societies in Kogi in its efforts to create alternative platforms for empowerment and job creation as part of its corporate social responsibility in the state. J. V. Gungune, Director, Dangote Cement Plant Obajana, who disclosed this at the presentation of a Cheque to Apata community cooperative society said there was need to empower the cooperative societies to strengthen the scheme. Gungune said that the desire of the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, was to create alternative platforms for empowerment and job creation as not everyone could be employed in the factory. He said that as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility drive in Kogi,...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Professor Adolf Mkenda – Agriculture Minister of Tanzania after trekking the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) he asserted, the ministry has decided to subsidize time, expertise and other reserves to enhance growers’ entrance to agro-inputs, better agribusiness methods, markets, and agrarian financing. He told the four facets are the crucial challenges hindering particularly smallholders to boost their production, adding: “We are going to pilot few areas to determine the effectiveness of the strategy and the ministry will hold a working session with all Extension Officers countrywide later this month. “The meeting will help identify gaps and successes that the ministry must consider when...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has launched the National Security Telecommunications Service (NSTS), an integrated communications platform aimed at enhancing sharing of information between Kenya’s security agencies. “This will enhance co-ordination of security activities and operations, allow real-time information exchange, and allow our security agencies to better deal with emerging threats in the realms of cybercrime,” President Kenyatta said during the launch of NSTS at Embakasi Garrison in Nairobi County. With the new integrated system, the President said the military, police, intelligence and other security services will be able to communicate more effectively at both intra-agency and inter-agency levels....

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  Erstwhile IEBC Commissioner, Roselyn Akombe has declared openly that, she has resigned from the US where she functioned as the Chief of Police at the Policy and Mediation Division, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs at the United Nations in New York. In a news on January 4th, 2021, Akombe asserted that, she would be paying dividends to Africa and would be based in Ethiopia. “Thrilled to join the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) today as the Governance and Peacebuilding Africa Coordinator at the Regional Hub in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,” she acknowledged in a tweet. She furthermore conveyed fervor that, her recent position encompasses her enthusiasm for development. “After 14 years on...