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Development Banks committed $19.6 billion to water projects in 2024
The European Sting
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July 1, 2025
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. Ten multilateral development banks (MDBs) active in the water sector have approved global investments totalling $19.6 billion (€17 billion) in 2024....
Coronation, museum commission launch gallery for Benin bronzes
Daily Trust
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In a move to preserve Nigeria’s cultural heritage, Coronation Group has partnered with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) to establish a gallery to showcase the Benin Bronzes. The gallery will house 119 Benin Bronzes recently...
Strict trade protections tabled to stop shark and ray species freefall
Oceanographic Magazine
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July 1, 2025
In total, over 70 sharks and rays are proposed for CITES listing action at CoP20 via seven listing proposals, with more than 50 governments adding their names to these proposals – showing the growing recognition that the world’s shark and ray...
Residents Of Erosion-Prone Areas In Benin Face Untold Hardship This Rainy Season
ITV
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June 30, 2025
Residents of flood-prone areas in Benin City are groaning under possible sack from their homes and business premises as they have been submerged in heavy floods following torrential rains. Deborah Ogbeifun, who visited some of the worst-hit...
Shavik FC Emerges Winner Of Under-13 Tournament Of Gym Starllion Pitch Sporting Company
ITV
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June 30, 2025
The need to catch them young in sporting activities was the focus of an event organized by Gym Stallion Pitch Sporting Company along Sapele Road in Benin City. Wellington Akodeja reports that parents of under-13 footballers turned out in large...
Firm concludes students’ contest to promote financial literacy
Daily Trust
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AVA Securities Limited, a subsidiary of AVA Capital Group, has concluded the second edition of the AVA Securities Trading Competition, Nigeria’s first securities trading competition for university students, where students traded with N5 million....
US Museum of Fine Arts Boston Returns Two Looted Artworks to Oba of Benin
Arise News
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June 30, 2025
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), at the weekend returned two works of art from the Benin Kingdom to His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, in a ceremony at the Nigeria House in New York City, which houses both the permanent...
Africa’s path to economic prosperity: From raw deals to real growth
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 30, 2025
Bold policy reforms, strategic infrastructure investment and domestic capital mobilisation can unlock Africa’s economic renaissance. To realise the desired prosperity, HELEN OJI writes on why the time to act is now. From abandoned textile mills in...
Benin shares its X-Road DPI interoperability experience in peer learning webinar
Biometric Update
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June 23, 2025
A recent peer learning discussion organized by the Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) spotlighted the DPI path walked by Benin since 2016. Since that time, the West African country has been pursuing its digital transformation plans...
MFA Boston Returns Looted Artifacts to Oba of Benin
This Day
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June 30, 2025
Yinka Olatunbosun The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), today returned two works of art from the Benin Kingdom to His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, in a ceremony at the Nigeria House in New York City, which houses both the...
Coalition of Governments Unites Behind Strict Trade Protections For Shark and Ray Species Freefalling Toward Extinction: Including Iconic Whale Sharks and Manta Rays
Newswise
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June 30, 2025
Link to Photos of Shark and Ray Species Newswise — New York, June 30, 2025 – Urgently needed proposals to protect the world’s most threatened shark and ray species that are freefalling toward extinction, including whale sharks, oceanic whitetips,...
Malawi among economies most affected by US tariffs
The Nation Malawi
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June 30, 2025
The German Institute of Development and Sustainability says Malawi will be among the worst hit economies in sub- Saharan Africa due to the US universal 10 percent tariff imposed on all its trading partners and reciprocal tariffs announced for 57...
Banks, farmers jittery over probe of N1.12trn Anchor Borrowers scheme
Business Hallmark
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June 23, 2025
The ongoing probe by the House of Representatives Committee on Nutrition and Food Security may open a Pandora box of the massive corruption that infested the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), N1.12 trillion under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP)....
Morocco trade push links Sahel to Atlantic via Western Sahara
The New Arab
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June 30, 2025
Morocco's Atlantic Initiative would concretise its control over the disputed territory of Western Sahara [Getty] A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle...
US Museum Returns Looted Artworks to Benin Kingdom
This Day
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June 30, 2025
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), at the weekend returned two works of art from the Benin Kingdom to His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, in a ceremony at the Nigeria House in New York City, which...
Auchi Poly Mass Comm Class Of 2006 Holds Maiden Reunion In Benin
Daily Independent
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June 29, 2025
1 BENIN – The Alumni Association of Mass Communication Students (AMCOS) Class of 2006, Auchi Polytechnic, has held its maiden reunion, bringing together classmates nearly two decades after graduation for a weekend of reflection, reconnection and...
Benin’s Talon says ECOWAS in need of urgent reform
Macau Business
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June 22, 2025
Benin President Patrice Talon said on Saturday that the west African regional bloc is in trouble, citing stalled infrastructure projects and weak trade links as reasons for reform. He spoke at a regional economic summit of west African nations in...
Boston museum returns looted artefacts to Oba of Benin
Punch
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June 29, 2025
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has returned two historic works of art looted from the Benin Kingdom in 1897 to the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II. “The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), today returned two works of art from the Benin Kingdom...
Morocco’s US$1.3b Atlantic trade corridor aims to bridge Africa’s divides, but security and politics remain hurdles
Malay Mail
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June 29, 2025
EL ARGOUB, June 29 — A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The “Atlantic...
Ghana-Togo Trade Slows Amid Border Security Concerns
News Ghana
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June 29, 2025
Cross-border commerce between Ghana and Togo faces significant disruption as ongoing political tensions and civil unrest in Togo deter traders. Safety concerns have led many Ghanaian traders to curtail or halt regular trips into Togolese markets,...