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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will hold its 2020 Annual Meetings virtually, from 25-27 August 2020. These will comprise statutory meetings of the Board of Governors. According to the bank, a major agenda item of this year’s annual meetings will be the election of a president. Meanwhile, the Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) last month approved a $69 million grant to support Ghana’s efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its socio-economic impact on the nation. The grant from the ADF, the concessional arm of the African Development Bank, will provide fiscal budget support to finance the government’s national COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, and...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Following in the footsteps of CAF, the North Africans have launched their strategy to further improve the women’s game in the country. The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) unveiled their 2021-2024 development plan, charting a future path for the growth of women’s football in the country. The development comes just two weeks after the African ruling body, CAF, unveiled a four-year strategy and also comes after hosting a women’s football summit in Marrakech two years ago. RMFF president Fouzi Lekjaa, National Women’s Football League (NWFL) president Khadija Ala, National Technical Administration director Roberts Wayne Ocean, and stakeholders were present at the women’s strategy launch on...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- A new research on a wide range of health interventions that will improve Ghana’s healthcare delivery has been presented to the government. Distinguished economists, from home and abroad, presented their findings as part of the “Ghana Priorities” project, an initiative being spearheaded by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), in collaboration with the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, an award-winning international think tank in Accra. The project seeks to prioritize the best policies for the country’s future based on cost-benefit analysis. Prof. Edward Nketiah-Amponsah of the University of Ghana, presented a research on the best current initiatives to limit the spread of malaria. The team discovered...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Around one billion dollars yearly ($1billion) would be reproduced by the Nigeria economy from the Had Sector stated, the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation And Fiscal Commission. Engineer Elias Mbam – the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission Chairman confirmed in a message published on August 12th, 2020in Abuja. Engineer Mbam pointed out that, the prospects of gas to revenue creation in Nigeria is tremendous and desires to be appropriately influenced. The Chairman clarified in the statement that, at a time when the accepted economy is encountering weakening earnings from oil, gas economy could be seen as a refuge for Nigeria. He propelled that, Nigeria could produce over $1billion yearly...