APA

The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has commended Nigerians in the Diaspora for the increase in remittances in the first quarter of this year by 20.3 per cent, representing the seventh consecutive quarterly increase in diaspora remittances since the last quarter of 2020.

The Conference of Heads of State during the 60th Summit held in December 2021 approved the ECOWAS Regional Infrastructure Master Plan. The Master plan is for the timeframe 2020-2045 and comprises 201 regional projects at an estimated cost of $131 billion.

A Ugandan opposition party has announced it would not be part of next month’s election for the composition of the East African Parliament, citing alleged underhand tactics by the ruling party, APA can report on Tuesday

Over 200 healthcare workers in South Sudan’s fledgling health sector have been trained with the aim of improving real-time detection and prompt response to disease outbreaks and other health emergencies, APA can report from Juba on Tuesday.

To deal with emergency situations, Ivorian-born Corine Ouattara has created a health pass in the form of a connected bracelet or medallion, which can be consulted via an online platform and contains personal and medical data.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday congratulated President João Lourenço on his re-election following last week’s Angola general elections.

The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $104.85 a barrel on Monday, August 29, 2022, compared with $103.89 the previous Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.

The report that $750 million loan the government secured from the Africa Export Import Bank (Afrexim) has finallly hit Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) accounts is one of the trending stories in the Ghanaian press on Tuesday.

The proposed budget of N19.76 trillion for 2023 by the Nigerian Government with the deficit hovering between N11.30tn and N12.41tn in the 2023 fiscal year dominates the headlines of Nigerian newspapers on Tuesday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a nine-member body to advise the South African government on the fight against fraud and corruption.