5th Edition of Global Business Forum Africa to host Heads of State, 17 Government Ministers and Officials with Business Leaders across Africa in Dubai

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Heads of state, 17 ministers, high-ranking government officials and prominent business leaders from Africa have confirmed their participation for the fifth edition of the Global Business Forum Africa (GBF Africa), which takes place November 18-19, 2019 in Dubai. The President of Liberia – His Excellency George Weah, President of Seychelle – His Excellency Danny Faure plus seventeen cabinet ministers from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Senegal, Uganda, Malawi, Congo, Tanzania, Niger and Liberia. The GBF Africa is scheduled for 18th November, 2019 in Dubai. In respect of this, senior public and private sector persons with legitimate interests in given it best to the GBF...

Liberia: $250,000,000 has been leased by the top Notch of Jake Memorial Baptist College

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- The entirety land, and all the built structures of Jake Memorial Baptist College Monrovia, has been leased by the administration of the college for $ 250,000,000 to a private institution thus ‘increasing threat from sea season’ authorities said. Reverend John K. Sackie -the President of the Jake Memorial Baptist College said this, while giving a brief summary of the lease agreement and a new campus during recent graduation exercises on the Old Road. Rev. Sackie who did not disclose the name of the leaser, however said; since 2016 the college so it Board of Directors and leadership have been discussing possibility of leasing the current college property, was eventually leased to a private company for $...

Tanzania: Monthly Economic Review shows that Gold Exports Heighten by + 25.1 % to $ 1,915.3 Million

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone-  Recently, Bank of Tanzania (BOT) Monthly Economic Review discovers in this year, gold exports moved upwards by +25.1% to $ 1,915.3 million, and sustained advance by large number of more than half of non-traditional exports that accounted for it. The importance of non-traditional exports was $ 3,904.2 million upon completion of August 2019 compared with $ 3,257.5 million in the structuring period in 2018, hugely driven by minerals with particularity of gold and manufactured goods. Increasingly, the export of manufacturing goods evidenced clearly in manufactured coffee, yarn and twine, iron, steel, and fertilizers. Services that gives to $ 3,916.3 million in the year ending August 2019 compared with $ 3,887.4...

Ghana: Can Abolish Death Penalty within 3 Months- Kpebu

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Accra, Ghana- A LEGAL practitioner and a Human Right Watcher, Mr. Martin L. Kpebu has proposed that if the government of Ghana is committed in abolishing the death penalty it will not take more than four month to do so. According to him, even though the Constitution specifies that to amend the death penalty requires a referendum, portions such as Article 29 session 46 of the 1992 Constitution which deals with murder, accounting for 95% of cases in relation to death penalty can go through Parliamentary amendment. Speaking to journalist in Accra, when representative of Amnesty International Ghana called on him to seek his opinion on death penalty, he said the government through the Constitutional Review Commission suggested that death penalty be...