Nigeria: UN Signs Partnership with PhotoWaka Africa

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN), Accra, Ghana- NIGERIA, PhotoWaka Africa was invited by the United Nations Nigeria to discuss how both organizations can partner towards achieving the Sustainable Developmental Goals. During the strategy meeting with the United Nations Nigeria, at the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos, last week, Dr. Oluseyi Soremekun (National Information Officer), commended PhotoWaka for their efforts towards using photography for social good, thereby taking actions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the meeting, strategic steps were designed on how the team can do more using photography as a tool to achieve the Global Goals. “We are glad about this partnership with the United Nations Nigeria, because the...

US$200 Million Dispensed: By the Standard Bank of South Africa as it Primary Green Bond with IFC

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- Standard Bank of South Africa Limited has handed out its introductory perpetually green bond, via private sequence with IFC – a development finance organization directed on the private sector, part of the World Bank Group. It is a ten-year establishment with the express intentions of elevating equity for use in on-lending by Standard Bank Group’s (SDGs), Sustainable Finance Business Unit and acquiring lengthy tenor financing. The $200 million, London Stock Exchange-listed green bond is Africa’s largest green bond and South Africa’s first offshore green bond issuance. The money generated as an outcome will be used to finance qualified green assets (renewable energy, energy efficiency, water...

The Gambia: Seventeen Regional Conference on Enactment of Sustainable Development Goals Decides in Banjul

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- The GAMBIA, Regional meeting on the commission of Regional of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); a compilation of seventeen universal objectives constructed to be a ‘blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all have climaxed in Banjul on March 03rd 2020. Fraction of its outcome, the United Nations General Assembly tailor the SDGs in 2015 and been resolved to accomplish them by 2030. The Gambia autographed the SDGs in 2015 and has been doing on the sustainable implementation of the highest level this year. Director of development planning at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs – Alagie Fadera announced that the objective of the conference is to have...

$20 Million Budget Hits Liberia

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- The Western Africa nation – Liberia, has breathed with a hard national reserve; strike by an appropriation shortfall of US$20 Million in an already cash-strapped stricken frugality. Literally, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in partnership with the specialized committee of the Liberian Legislature through the Ways, Means, Finance and Budget Committees of both houses, has begun forecasting of the current 2019/20 national budget expected to the shortfall. References from the Finance and Development Planning Ministry, encompassing the House of Representatives and the Senate Ways, Means, Finance and Budget Committees are now grinding out specialized circumstances in re-shifting nationwide...