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By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone–  …Africa could be the grub basket of the globe, counterproductive usage of fertilizers and poor management of soil health, amongst other factors, keeps Africa stumbling to adequately feed itself. Creating on the voyage undertaken since the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer in 2006 through the May 2024 Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit clasped in Nairobi, Kenya, ECOWAS, in alliance with technical and financial members such as OCP Africa, IITA, APNI, IFDC, UM6P and the World Bank primarily, officially launched this 26th June 2024, the Regional Hub for Fertilizer and Soil Health for West Africa and the Sahel. The Hub strives to enrich soil health and agrarian productivity across the region. The Hub is...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– The codes ZWL and ZWG will operate jointly from June 25th, 2024, to August 31st, 2024 when the ZWL code is designated to pass away. This was disclosed in a note coped with to the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) Chief Executive Officer-Fanwell Mutogo, by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Deputy Director, Financial Markets – National Payment Systems and FinTech Department, Josephat Mutepfa. The letter, dated 25th, June 2024, reads: The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe notifies that the World Bank ISO 4217 Committee has endorsed our proposition to switch the Zimbabwe Currency Code from ZWL to ZWG (Zimbabwe Gold) effective 25th June 2024. The Codes ZWL and ZWG will run concurrently from the 25th of June to the 31st...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Elders of Kakata Residents of Margibi County District Number Three, stirred by twenty-four community leaders, have submitted a development agenda to their Representative – Ellen Attoh Wreh, to be implemented in 2024. The leaders over the weekend presented their development agenda to the office of their District Representative via her Chief of Staff-Freddie ZayZay, during a press conference with real participants of the district in Kakata – Margibi County. In the commencement of June 2024, Representative Ellen Attoh Wreh assmbled her maiden District Development sitting in her second term, to permit district residents to propose projects to her office for onward submission to the Liberia Agency for...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Tajudeen Alao remarked, the creation of the project would equally strengthen Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and enable the nation’s multinational awareness. Alao in Lagos asserted that, the world had moved beyond conventional methods of doing business with the growth of technology. He stated: “More than 30 years ago, when Singapore grew from a third-world country to a first-world country, the president, Lee Kuan Yew, led the drive for technology awareness, and now look at where Singapore is today in terms of technology. Nigeria must make more efforts to keep abreast with technological advancements worldwide”. He furthered, “The establishment of the Trade Modernisation Project would add value...