Month July 2024

Angola’s Luanda International Fair Draws Global Investors

THE 39th edition of the Luanda International Fair (FILDA) will open its doors on July 23, welcoming over 1,300 companies from 18 countries to the Angolan capital’s Special Economic Zone. This year’s event focuses on internationalisation and strategic infrastructure development,…

UK’s £10bn Rwanda Asylum Plan Scrapped, Minister Reveals

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new Labour government has scrapped the controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in its first major policy announcement after winning a commanding election victory earlier this month. The decision…

Memories from Childhood, By Elempe Dele

  Growing up in what can be qualified as a proper home, I still reflect on those times now I am making and gathering mine, not with the kind of success my parents did it in those days. Homemaking was…

WTO: African group votes Okonjo-Iweala for 2nd term

THE African Group at the World Trade organisation (WTO) presented a proposal at its General Council (GC) to re-elect Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as director-general of the organisation. Adebayo Thomas, the Director, Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment,…

AfDB Invests $10.9 bn In Nigeria

THE Director-General of West Africa Region, African Development Bank (AfDB), Lamin Barrow, says the banks’s cumulative financing approvals in Nigeria stands at 10.9 billion dollars. Barrow said this at the Second Interactive Session and Workshop on Developing Bankable Business Proposals/Business…