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Govt concedes in labour talks, abortion waiting period abolished, and Texas flood death toll passes 120
RTL Today
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Your Weekly Recap for 7–11 July 2025. Here are five things you should know at the end of this week: Labour talks yield partial agreement as govt makes collective bargaining concession Chamber scraps abortion waiting period but upholds 12-week...
Today in High Prairie: July 11, 205
South Peace News
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July 10, 2025
Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....
Motsepe's CAF reign of cash
MMEGI
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July 11, 2025
Cash has been the glue that has kept Motsepe's reign as football's top man going. Actually, the cash approach has been the cornerstone of the billionaire's reign as member associations, national teams and clubs start to reap the benefits of having...
The African Continental Free Trade Area: a game-changer for the financial sector
IOL
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July 9, 2025
Chris Egberink|Published 3 hours ago 3min Global intra-regional trade figures show Africa at roughly 16% - a stark contrast to Europe (65%) and Asia (43%). The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to address this disparity by...
$1.5bn Lekki Port Begins Cargo Transhipments To Togo, Ghana, Others
Leadership
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July 11, 2025
The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Seaport has started international transhipment of cargoes to neighbouring West African countries such as Togo, Benin Republic, Abidjan and Ghana. The Port, on Thursday, disclosed that it initiated efforts to ramp up...
Lekki Port to expand transshipment to W’African ports, eastern Nigeria
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 11, 2025
Lekki Deep Seaport has established international transshipment links to key West African ports, including Tema in Ghana, Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, Lomé in Togo and Cotonou in the Benin Republic. The $1.5 billion deep seaport also plans to expand...
NICHOLAS SHUBITZ: How Russia wins friends and influences people
BusinessLIVE
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The inaugural Russia-Africa summit in 2019 was a pivotal moment in enhancing educational co-operation, with the number of African students studying in Russia almost doubling to 34,000 by the time the next summit was held in 2023. These numbers...
Dissident Hunters
The Verge
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July 10, 2025
On a balmy night in October 2019, the defector rode his bike home. He’d just finished a long shift helping waiters serve yogurt-smothered kabobs at a restaurant in Yalova, a seaside town an hour from Istanbul, Turkey. By this time of night, many...
Promoting West Africa through Travel, Trade
This Day
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July 11, 2025
Recently West African leaders met in Abuja for the inauguration of West African Economic Summit where Nigeria pushed for the removal of structural and policy bottlenecks in travel and trade in order to boost economic growth of the sub-region....
Lekki Port Eyes 500,000 TEUs in 2025, Ramps Up Transshipment to West Africa
This Day
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July 11, 2025
Oluchi Chibuzor The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Seaport is fast establishing Nigeria as a maritime hub for West and Central Africa, with expanded international transshipment operations to key regional destinations including Togo, Benin Republic,...
ATIDI: De-Risking Africa’s Growth Trajectory Through Innovation, Impact and Integration
Capital Finance International
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July 15, 2025
15 Jul, 2025 As Africa’s leading provider of credit and investment insurance, the African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) continues to shape the continent’s economic trajectory. Under the stewardship of CEO Manuel Moses, the...
ECOWAS Experts Study Senegal Transport Models
News Ghana
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July 10, 2025
News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ecowas-experts-study-senegal-transport-models/Road engineers and transport specialists from ECOWAS member states conducted a field visit to Senegal...
Benin bets on free vets and schools to turn people away from jihadism
Modern Ghana
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In jihadist-threatened north Benin, the army is waging a campaign away from the front -- a programme of social projects, including free veterinary care, to tempt locals away from extremism. Located just south of Niger and Burkina Faso -- which...
$1.5bn Lekki Port begins international transhipment to Togo, Benin Republic, Ghana
The Sun Nigeria
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July 10, 2025
By Steve Agbota The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Seaport has made Nigeria a maritime hub in West and Central Africa, as it began international transhipment to Togo, Benin Republic, Abidjan, and Ghana. This is even as the port initiated efforts to ramp...
Novartis Gets Approval for First Malaria Drug for Babies
This Day
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July 10, 2025
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Novartis has received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and very young children, a process Nigeria was hugely involved in, a Reuters report said. Eight...
The Intuition Trap
Psychology Today
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Imagine you're in a cab rushing down a busy street when the driver casually mentions he doesn't have a license. He doesn't need one, he explains, because he's very intuitive and just trusts his gut when driving. He's been driving for a whole week...
Marco Rubio imposter: experts say AI deepfakes of voice and writing styles are 'dangerous escalation'
The National News
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Artificial intelligence was used to impersonate the voice of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and place calls to foreign ministers and American officials, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday, raising further concerns over the growing use of...
UAE reviews visa processs for Nigerians, bans transit applications
Daily Trust
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July 10, 2025
Stakeholders and operators in the downstream sector of the aviation industry expressed shock yesterday over the review of visa application requirements for visitors to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city. The newly updated requirements...
TikTok over talk shows: How Zohran Mamdani won with NYC influencers
PR Week
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June 25, 2025
NEW YORK: New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who claimed victory last night in the Democratic Party primary, didn’t win by cozying onto Jimmy Fallon’s and Stephen Colbert’s late-show couches like the many politicians before him. While...
The UAE is no longer a financial risk in Europe’s eyes, here is what that really means
The Times of India
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July 10, 2025
In July 2025, the EU Parliament delisted the UAE from its high-risk list, after FATF grey listing in 2022 and EU designation in 2023/ (Representative Image) Delisted: The EU has formally removed the UAE from its high-risk AML/CFT list after...