He was addressing the ministerial meeting of the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation which is preparing for the Focac leaders summit in Johannesburg starting on Friday. These included the Addis Ababa light rail network, which began operating this year, as the "first modern, urban light rail on the African continent", the Abuja-Kaduna railway - "Nigeria's first modern rail line" - and the Kaleta Hydropower Station which had doubled Guinea's power generation.
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China has overdelivered
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Masai Ujiri, Raptors to honour Nelson Mandela before game against Warriors
... the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the charity that he co-founded in 2003, The Giant of Africa. Ujiri, born in Zaria, Nigeria, is on a mission to use basketball as a means to educate and enrich the lives of the youth of Africa. He began the program ...
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UPDATE 3-MTN seeks bigger reduction after Nigeria cuts $5.2 bln fine by a third -source
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 3 MTN Group will lobby for further reductions to a fine imposed by Nigeria, a source familiar with the matter said, after authorities in its biggest market cut the penalty by more than a third on Thursday to $3.4 billion. The Nigerian Communications Commission handed Africa's biggest mobile phone company a $5.2 billion penalty in October after MTN failed to cut off users with unregistered SIM cards from its network.
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MTN Said to Seek Further Reduction in Record Nigerian Fine
MTN Group Ltd., Africa's largest phone company, is working to further reduce a record fine imposed by Nigerian authorities even after the penalty was cut by 35 percent to $3.4 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The wireless operator is also considering further management changes as it deals with the fallout from the Nigeria dispute, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the matter is private.
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.com | Nigerian Army detains 11-year-old
An 11-year-old boy has been arrested as a "potential suicide bomber" at a camp for people displaced by the Boko Haram conflict, according to Nigeria's military. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said troops detained the youngster at the Dalori camp near the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on Tuesday.
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No. 6 Texas beats No. 9 MSU in defensive battle
... can. I really respect the fact that people noticed my giving back and nominated me for this award." Okorie, a Lagos, Nigeria, native is an active participant in games and activities at Starkville's annual Travis Outlaw Day. Most recently, she ...
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Nigeria slashes telecoms company fine by a third to $3.4 bln
In this file photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, cars drive past an MTN advertisement on the road in Lagos, Nigeria. MTN says Nigeria is slashing its massive fine by more than a third to $3.4 billion, and the CEO of the embattled Nigerian subsidiary of Africa's largest telecommunications giant is resigning.
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African Nations Vulnerable to Effects of Climate Change
... - Newly-built houses on the bank of the River Kaduna are seen in flood waters after hours of rainfall in Kaduna, Nigeria, August 15, 2015. It says the effects of climate change have led to global temperature increases of 1 degree Celsius above the ...
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The launch of iPAD Nigeria Mining Forum in partnership with PwC in...
DMN Newswire--2015-12-3--"Gathering all the stakeholders to discuss the challenges and the way forward in Nigeria's mining sector has been a huge boost in confidence for the industry and mining professionals in the country are very optimistic about the sector's imminent rejuvenation." This is according to Nicole Smith, event director of the inaugural iPAD Nigeria Mining Forum in partnership with PwC Nigeria, where more than 200 mining professionals gathered in Abuja in November.
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Cameroon: Army raid kills 100 Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages
... 27 dead. A month later, in July, another twin suicide attack killed at least 18 in Maiduguri, a city in northern Nigeria. Despite the fact that some were able to escape, the bulk of 276 girls kidnapped at a government secretary school by Boko Haram ...
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Ihunnaya Oranye releases first book - The Cost'
... of abuse in relationships in her newly-published book "The Cost" ( published by AuthorHouse UK ). Set in Lagos, Nigeria, Oranye's story follows Dumebi 'Bibi' Harcourt, a successful career woman at the top of her game who fell in love with Alex ...
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8 Civilians, 2 Police Officers Killed in Biafra Protest
Ten people including two police officers died in the latest protests Wednesday over renewed demands for a Biafran state to secede from Nigeria's southeast, police and a protest leader said. Such protests were banned last month by southern governors concerned by the increasing violence around new demands for a Biafran state, a cause that prompted a 1960s civil war that killed 1 million people.
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Nigeria: Troops Killed Jos Lion Because We Don't Have Tranquilisers - Park
... mate, a lioness. The park is tucked in-between many establishments including the Jos branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); the state High Court, and the state Police Command Headquarters and its' barracks, as well as various big offices ...
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Nigeria: Dasuki Denies Ever Implicating Anyone in Probes
The former National Security Adviser , Col. Sambo Dasuki , has denied ever making statements implicating anyone or group in the allegation of $2.1 billion arms purchase deal brought against him by the federal government.
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Out of Africa: From Lagos to the defensive line, Nigerian freshman...
... 'Are you gonna play football when you get to high school?' Such is the start of the story of how a freshman from Nigeria with no on-field football experience before August has been a starting defensive end for the undefeated Eastern Alamance team ...
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Evening the odds for future Sino-Nigerian relations
China is the world's second largest economy and its most populous nation, just as Nigeria is Africa's No.1 economy and has the largest population on the continent. But with a GDP of over $11 trillion to Nigeria's $510 billion there is no doubt China is way ahead.
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Nigeria: Insurgency and December Deadline - How Far?
Boko Haram insurgency is one of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria today. Determined to crush the insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari gave a three-month deadline to the service chiefs which ends this month.
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MTN wants fine reduced more
MTN Group will lobby for further reductions to a fine imposed by Nigeria, a source familiar with the matter said, after authorities in its biggest market cut the penalty by more than a third on Thursday to $3.4 billion. The Nigerian Communications Commission handed Africa's biggest mobile phone company a $5.2 billion penalty in October after MTN failed to cut off users with unregistered SIM cards from its network.
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Nigeria: NCC Reduces MTN's Fine to N674 Billion, As Ikpoki Resigns
The Nigerian Communications Commission has reduced the monumental fine of N1.04 trillion it imposed on the MTN Nigeria, for failure to disconnect 5.2 million unregistered subscribers, to N674 billion. A statement issued by the MTN Group yesterday said NCC decided to reduce the fine to US$3.4 billion after considering a request from the company, saying the company now has December 31, 2015 deadline to pay up the fine.
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Nigeria: I Did Not Implicate Anyone - Dasuki
... N600m through dubious contracts to procure military boats. "He awarded the contract to one Alhaji Rabiu's Hypertech Nigeria Limited. The contractor was fully paid but the boats were never supplied. The contract award process violated the Procurement ...
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