AfDB said the continent only received $18.3 billion, leaving it with an annual financing deficit of $108 billion Experts from the African Development Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have said that African countries need to mobilise $1.6 trillion within seven years to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) pledges to resist climate change effects. […]
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A new report showed that Nigerian oil revenue underperformed due to significant shortfalls such as shut-ins resulting from pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft. The Trans-Niger Pipeline, a major pipeline capable of transporting about 180,000 barrels of crude per day, has stopped transporting the product since mid-June due to theft. Despite the development, the pipeline […]
Companies that are not complying with legislation of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) are being dealt with, says the Department of Employment and Labour. In a statement on Wednesday, the department said that Phase two of the UIF’s “Follow the Money Project” which started this month has its sight set on employers that have not […]
Africa 2.0 – Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution – is out now from Manchester University Press. It’s an ambitious 35 year history of the impact of mobile and internet on Sub-Saharan Africa written for the informed general reader. Chapters cover: the rise of mobile calling; bandwidth as the digital economy’s fuel; mobile internet, handsets and […]
The City plans to help backyarders only on properties it owns We spoke to backyarders and homeowners from two suburbs in Cape Town. In Eersteriver alone there are about 98,000 people living in backyard dwellings. City of Cape Town City has urged backyarders on private land to register for housing There are about 98,000 people […]
Metrorail line in Langa to be vacated in November On Tuesday Minister Mbalula showed families living on railway tracks in Langa and Philippi the parcels of land in Philippi where they will be relocated. The HDA is still in negotiations to acquire land in Macassar to relocate families living on railway tracks in Khayelitsha. PRASA’s […]
“It is clear our government only helps those who protest” Nontembiso Ngcumshe was four years old when her mother moved with her and other evicted farm workers to Kei Road Township, 24km outside Bhisho, in the 1940s. When Ngcumshe’s mother died in early 2000, she was still waiting for her RDP house. Ngcumshe, who is […]
Monrovia — Caroline Bowah, former Director of medica Liberia, and her successor, Yah Vallah Parwon, have been invited to Germany by medica mondiale for the official honoring of Ms. Bowah’s achievements in the past years for her leadership of over a decade. medica Liberia is a feminist organization committed to transforming society and supporting women […]
Sinoe — Sun poured through the windows of a nearly renovated three-bedroom house as 80-year-old Emmanuel Troh, tears in his eyes, looked around in awe. He finally had a home. It has been almost a year since President Weah promised to construct a house for Troh, a legend of the president’s childhood dreams. It may […]
Monrovia — APM Terminals Liberia through its Corporate Social Responsibility has disbursed another set of scholarship funds to students within Districts 13 and 14. This is the second leg in the company’s educational scholarship scheme disbursement series which has already seen 120 students receive scholarships from six institutions across the county. At a mini event […]
Monrovia — President George Weah for the first time will be invited by the President of the United States of America since the inception of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) led government more than four years ago. As President of Liberia, Weah has only been in the United States of America three times to […]
Monrovia — The Ministry of Justice and its partners which include UNDP Liberia and have finalized the validation of the Liberia Corrections Service Act. The documents which would be presented to the National Legislature would allow the Bureau of Corrections and Rehabilitation (BCR) to be an autonomous institution. The BCR is the third component of […]
Monrovia — Noble Laureate Leymah Gbowee has called on opposition leaders and their supporters to get their acts together and stop the war of words, adding that it is time for them to get their EGOS out of the way and allow common sense to reign. Madam Leymah Gbowee is a winner of the Nobel […]
Monrovia — The Plenary of the Liberian Senate has unanimously voted to confirm the Director and Deputy Director General of the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) Mr. Dewitt Vonballmoos and Madam Camerna C. Yeke. Plenary is the highest decision making body of the Senate. The lawmakers took the decision following the submission of […]
Monrovia — Liberia is currently monitoring and treating a male who was recently diagnosed with the monkeypox virus in Maryland County. Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic infection, meaning that it can spread from animals to humans. It can also spread from person to person. Health authorities in Liberia at a news conference Monday July 25, […]
Monrovia — Representative Erol Madison-Gwion of Grand Gedeh County says he’s living in fear after his vehicle was destroyed by unknown individuals. The incident happened days after he and two other members of the Grand Gedeh Legislative Caucus announced to boycott the Independence Day celebrations over the delay by the Ministry of Justice to investigate […]
Inibehe Effiong published details of his experience in court on social media. The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Ekaette Obot, has sent a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, to prison. Mr Effiong who is handling a case for his client before Justice Obot’s court in Uyo disclosed this in a message he posted on […]
DEPUTY President of the Senate and All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has called on security agencies to fish out the killers of his legislative aide, Cyril Mudiagbe. Mudiagbe was shot dead, weekend, by suspected hired killers in Sapele. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and […]