$6 Billion: Construction of Akon’s Pan-African City Project in Senegal Kick Started in the First Half of 2021

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Novel Coronavirus vermin (COVID-19) might have harshly affected the multinational frugality with crucial reverses. On this note, it doesn’t discouraging musician and business magnate – Alliums Damala Badara Akon Thiam , from captaining forth with his blueprints of establishing a Pan-African City in his home nation of Senegal. In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, the Locked Up singer, who spent most of his childhood in the West African nation, revealed the construction of the $6 billion project will commence early next year. The Locked Up Singer, who’s a 47-year-old musician, born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, shared his plans of building the city in 2018, describing it as an “a...

Sierra Leone: Freetown City Council Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyer and Entourage visited Landslide Disaster Victims of Portee Community East of the Capital City

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Freetown City Council (FCC), vanguard by the city Mayor – Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, made a visit to the victims of a landslide disaster that occurred in Portee, East end of Freetown on August 26th, 2020. Supposedly, the disaster, came off consequently, the indiscriminate building of properties on a weakened slope and in a waterway, affected thirteen households and one hundred and thirty people. In furtherance, the orderlies constituted the Deputy Mayor of the Freetown Municipality – Councillor Osman T. Koroma, Stella Smith – Head of Social Services Department, Councilor Fatmata Williams of Ward 409, Councilor Hannah Mary Jaiah of Ward 413, Councilor Agnes Marah of Ward 407 and Councilor Sheku...

Nigeria: National Identity Management Commission to be Switched to the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- President of the Republic of Nigeria – Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the shift of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. Mallam Isa Ali Pantami – Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, in an assertion announced, the authorization for the evolution was based on the Buhari’s respect for the significant role of NIMC towards the realization of the purposes of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy for a Digital Nigeria (NDEPS). Pantami clarified that, this was in tandem with the exertion to assure that synergy and useful ministry supervisory mechanism is put in place to coordinate, monitor and track the...

Africa Development Bank Group President – Dr. Akinwumi Adesina: Assured to Modify the Lives of Africans through a much Adequately, Stronger, and Resilient Bank to Produce Outstanding Excellence

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- During his inaugural speech at a virtual ceremony of the swearing-in of the Africa Development Bank President, on September 1st of this year, in Abidjan – Ivory Coast, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina – President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has asserted to compose a much healthier and resilient bank to provide considerable tendency, in a bid to better the lives of the African people the more. The Banks President proclaimed this would be accomplished with the administration and also the capacity of the bank; while enduring financially strong and sustainable. He explained that the bank, over the next five years would concentrate on the institution, people, delivery, as well as sustainability. “Each...