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...

Ghana: Takoradi Port Expansion, Work Begins on US$500m Multi-Purpose Atlantic Terminal

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN), Accra, Ghana- Works have begun on the $500 million-dollar Multi-Purpose Atlantic Terminal expected to pave way for the Takoradi Harbour to increase its annual container capacity from the current 50 thousand to one million twenty-foot-equivalent units of containers. The integrated container and multi-purpose Atlantic Terminal Services is a build-operate-transfer project between IBISTEK, an indigenous firm and the Ghana Port and Harbour Authority, after GPHA granted IbisTek the concession. The dredging works begun this month with the arrival of the cutter suction dredger known as CSD Zhen He, and it is expected to be completed by April this year. The Chief Executive of IbisTek, Dr. Felix Nana Sackey, says the dredging, which is a key...

US$4 Billion Investment to be Injected in the Nigeria Economy: By Nigerian American Business Forum

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- Union of Nigerian specialists in the United States (U.S.) has propose calculations in place to draw in $4 billion venture into the Nigerian economy in the succeeding two years, to exhilarate the economy of their fatherland. The experts, under the sponsorship of Nigerian American Business Forum (NABF), expressed this at their 2020 Investment Conference with the theme: “Improving Nigeria’s Economy: Opportunities and challenges”, at Tampa, Florida. They explained, despite the apparent enterprise challenges, they were deduced to employ their wealth of experience and rapport to dazzle development to their motherland. The President of the forum – Kenneth Shobola announced that, the forum has...