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Nigeria
30tn leakage: Senate gives firms one week to file defense
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, and Marine Transport, has asked the over 30 companies quizzed this week over alleged complicity in the N30tn revenue loss in the import and export value chain to present their defense next week. The investigative panel, at an ...
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Nigeria Regno Unito
FG signs oil financing deals with Shell, Chevron
Nigeria has signed financing deals with oil majors Shell and Chevron to develop projects that would boost reserves and revenue, the state-run oil firm said on Thursday. “Two sets of alternative financing agreements on Joint Venture (JV) projects to boost reserves and production in line with government’s aspiration were executed ...
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Ghana
AfDB to finance Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire cocoa plan
The African Development Bank says it is willing to provide 1.2 billion dollars to finance plans by Cote d’ Ivoire and Ghana to process more of their cocoa. The plan will be under a joint initiative to guarantee stable revenues from the commodity, the continental lender said on Wednesday. Part ...
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Nigeria
Cameroon sends delegation to Abuja, says we didn’t kill 97 Nigerian fishermen
Cameroon on Thursday denied reports of the killing of 97 Nigerian fishermen by its gendarmes in Bakassi peninsula and maltreating Nigerian refugees in that country. A three-man delegation dispatched by Cameroonian President Paul Biya stated this in Abuja at a joint briefing at the end of a meeting with the ...
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Sudafrica
Jailed blade runner, Pistorius, in hospital with chest pain
Jailed Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was taken to a hospital Thursday for overnight observation, an official said, as local media reported he was suffering chest pains. Pistorius, 30, is serving a six-year jail term for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a model and law graduate, in his Pretoria house in ...
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Qatar Turchia
Turkey eyes sustainable ways to meet Qatar’s needs
Turkey asked Qatar, which has been under a blockade by Arab countries since June, to join hands for sustainable food production, the Turkish economy minister said on Aug. 3.
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Cina
Turkish FM cements security ties with China
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has stressed the importance of security ties with Beijing during a visit to China
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Turchia
Berlin ‘concerned over deterioration of jail conditions’ of German rights activist in Turkey
German Foreign Ministry spokesperson Martin Schafer has said the German government is concerned about the potentially worsening jail conditions of human rights activist Peter Steudtner, who was recently transferred to Istanbul’s Silivri Prison, Deutche Welle has reported.
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Turchia
Siemens and Turkish partners win billion-dollar wind energy tender
A consortium of German giant Siemens and Turkey’s Türkerler and Kalyon Enerji holdings won a billion-dollar wind energy tender on Aug. 3, offering the lowest price to the state with $3.48 cents per kilowatt hour.
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Russia
Trump signs Russia sanctions bill, Moscow calls it ‘trade war’
U.S. President Donald Trump grudgingly signed into law new sanctions against Russia on Aug. 2, a move Moscow said amounted to a full-scale trade war and an end to hopes for better ties with the Trump administration