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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Union (EU) have initiated steps aimed at creating an avenue to regionalize investments in the West African sub-region. The move is expected to be initiated through instituting key policy framework and guidelines to attract the needed investments. This has become necessary since Ghana is spearheading the African Economic and Financial Renaissance and the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which calls for the need to institute policies aimed at directing and guiding the Pan- African trade agenda. The programme dubbed: West African Competitiveness Project focuses on strengthening...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company’s Deputy Managing Director for Administration – Stanley A. Ford, the container is on its way from neighboring country capital – Freetown. And will enter in Monrovia with the awaited commodities. In contrast to the assertion made previously by the Minister of Commerce – Wilson Tarpeh that there is an expected shortage of gasoline in the country, the LPRC Deputy MD verified the Senators that, there are products to serve the public before the arrival of the scheduled tanker. In addendum, the extended strings that are presently existing; suffered at filling stations are out of dismay due to Coronavirus eruption that, there would be a scarcity of commodities,...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- Namibia, subsequently a year of reserving zero in their conventional silos anticipated to the shortage duration, cooperative planters in the Kavanagh West province of Namibia, are forthwith foreseeing a satisfactory proceeds this season pursuing big rains. Precisely, natives in the ever-green nation similarly recognized for its fair rains year in and year out, survived tote their hands on their heads as they gazed their crops perished from the brutal heat. Yet, Kivango was adored with sufficient sleet this year. In this regard, denizens grabbed benefit of it, but in their endeavors to plough as early as it started to pour. They are now peeking ahead to a good harvest. “When it started raining...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- Zimbabwe, Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement has bent on to apply a mandatory policy on contract agriculturist with acerbic turf in the next summer to apply agricultural lime to correct the soil pH; since many Zimbabwean soils are caustic, by way of ensuing windfalls from the valuable fertilizers they apply. Soil pH is a criterion of the disposition of the soil and its proficiency to help nutrients to the crop. When pH is very low, less than 5.0, nutrient put a less than 45%, by implication, 55% of the nutrients will not be utilized by the crop and this influences in losses. A farmer will have to apply lime to boost the nutrients uptake from the soil. However, the soils...