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Job Title: Business Development Manager Location(s): Lagos, Nigeria Employer: Bourbon Interoil Nigeria Limited (BINL) Job description: A leading international player in marine services, BOURBON offers to the most demanding oil & gas clients worldwide a full line of innovative, safe, high performance and new generation vessels and an expanded offer of offshore oil & gas services. BINL recruits a Business Development Manager Duties & Responsibilities: To provide a strong strategic focus on key opportunities and engage with customers to create strong business relationships ACTIVITIES: • Identify & create plans with greenfield targets in Nigeria • Develop and maintain a working…
8 Ex-Governors Witness Ogun 2014 Budget Presentation, (L-R): Navy Capt. Kayode Olofinmoyin, Commodore Oladeinde Joseph, Major Gen. Ekundayo Opaleye (Ondo State), Lt. Gen. Oladipo Diya, incumbent Governor Ibikunle Amosun, Major Gen. Ayodele Balogun, Major. Gen. Oladayo Popoola, Col. Daniel Akintonde and Navy Capt. Rasheed Raji (Bauchi and Sokoto States) after the presentation of 2014 Appropriation Bill to the Ogun State House of Assembly…yesterday. Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday (Tuesday) presented an appropriation bill of N210.2billion for the 2014 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly with a capital expenditure of N117.51bn representing 55.90 percent. The budget, which…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has commenced discussions with the Kuwaiti Fund towards accessing finances for infrastructural development. Namadi Sambo who received the Director – General of the Kuwaiti Fund, Abdulwahab Al-Bader in his Jumeira Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa room recently stated that though Nigeria is a member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), its size and population necessitates a lot of assistance to meet her infrastructural requirements.Sambo explained that Nigeria has a well articulated vision for development known as the Transformation Agenda which aims to address areas militating against the growth of the country. He…
JUBA, South Sudan, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The AU- UN Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, urged tribal leaders in South Darfur to embrace the principle of resolving conflicts through dialogue, negotiations and other peaceful means and to guard against repeating the same patterns that have caused so much suffering in the region. On 19 November, the JSR addressed about 200 tribal leaders from all localities in South Darfur who participated in a two–day conference in Nyala to discuss the root causes of tribal conflict, map them and recommend possible solutions for sustainable peaceful…
WASHINGTON, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — TestimonyRobert P. JacksonPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African AffairsHouse Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs, Global Health, Human Rights and International OrganizationsWashington, DCNovember 19, 2013Thank you very much Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Bass, and Members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to testify before you today on this most important subject. We are deeply concerned about the continuing insecurity, humanitarian crisis and human rights violations across the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). We are working closely with our European allies, the United Nations, and the African Union to press for stability,…
Job Title: Customer Care Representative Location: Lagos, Nigeria Employer: Wakleb Ventures Wakleb Ventures is looking for an energetic and highly experienced personnel. Requirement: Minimum of ONDApply to this job
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — After keeping a low profile in the earlier stages of the four-stage ECOWAS Cycling tour, Burkina Faso’s Rasmane Ouedraogo on Sunday 17th November 2013 successfully defended the crown he won two years ago, by emerging the overall champion of the 3rd edition of the regional competition.This year’s race, which commenced on November 13 in Lagos, Nigeria, terminated in front of the Palais de Sport, Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire, with Ouedraogo, who claimed to have deployed a new tactics of staying in background, ensuring a superlative finish among the top five in…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Harith (http://www.harith.co.za) has concluded the acquisition of the entire shareholding of the Company from the shareholders of FMFML (namely Standard Bank Group Limited (“SBG”), Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (“FMO”) and EMP (Africa), L.L.C. (“EMP Africa”) for an undisclosed sum. The Transaction was subject to the consent of the two debt funds which FMFML exclusively manages, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Limited (“EAIF”) and GuarantCo Limited (“GuarantCo”) (together, “the Funds”). Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/harith.jpgPhoto: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=735 (Tshepo Mahloele, CEO of Harith General Partners)The Funds provide an array of innovative debt products to select emerging…
A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Lawal Wada today November 18, 2013 convicted and sentenced Augustine Olayinka and Oke Anone to eight years imprisonment with option of N100, 000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) fine each. The duo were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday November 14, 2013 on a 6-count charge of forgery. They allegedly presented themselves as sureties to suspects under investigation and submitted fake Certificates of Occupancy for landed properties in the Unguwar Dosa area of Kaduna metropolis as bond to the Commission. One of the charges reads, “that you…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Today, the Nigerian Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) conducted a technical walkthrough of a pioneering electronic warehouse receipt platform deployed by Africa Exchange Holdings (AFEX), which enables Nigerian farmers, cooperatives and traders to safely store their produce at accredited warehouses and access financing. Within two months of signing an MOU with FMARD, AFEX has commenced operations of the Warehouse Receipt System – a record speed in public private partnerships.AFEX is the pan-African commodity exchange company founded by Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The ECOWAS Commission will present Mali with about half a million US dollars in food aid within the next few weeks to support populations adversely affected by that country’s political and security crises, ECOWAS Commissioner for Human Development and Gender, Dr. Adrienne Diop announced in Bamako on Monday 18th November 2013.In an address at a ceremony for the official deployment of twenty (20) members of the ECOWAS Emergency Response Team (EERT) in the country, the Commissioner said the food items, which include rice, were being procured with the facilitation of the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of 353 Liberian migrants stranded in Ghana is returning home by air through the end of this month, thanks to an IOM voluntary return programme.The movements, in groups of 50, are part of a regional project spanning West Africa, which aims to assist more than 2,000 Liberian nationals who were not registered with UNHCR or national agencies as refugees following the country’s civil conflict (1989-2003), and therefore do not qualify for return assistance or local integration as part of the refugee cessation clause of June 2012.With the support from…
Address delivered by the Governor of Ogun State, his Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosun FCA, at the presentation of the 2014 Appropriation Bill to the Ogun State House of Assembly, held on tuesday 19th November, 2013. 2014 Appropriation Bill – DOWNLOAD
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Board of the African Development Bank (http://www.afdb.org) on Wednesday November 13th approved US$120 million financing for the Nairobi Outer Ring road project which involves the improvement of the existing single carriageway road to a 2-lane dual carriageway complete with service roads, grade separated intersections, pedestrians–foot-over bridges, walkways and cycle tracks over the entire length of the road.Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/african-development-bank-2.pngThe 13-kilometer project, on completion is expected to directly enhance the traffic circulation and eliminate traffic bottlenecks to various economic activity centers such as the industrial zone, and the vast populous residential areas…
NEW YORK, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Reiterating its condemnation of all acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia, the Security Council today renewed for another year authorizations, first agreed in 2008, for international action to fight those crimes in cooperation with Government authorities. Through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2125 (2013) under the Charter’s Chapter VII, the Council renewed its call upon States and regional organizations that had the capacity to do so to fight ongoing sea crimes by deploying naval vessels, arms and military aircraft, and through seizures and disposition…
AMSTERDAM, Netherland, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) (http://www.gemalto.com), the world leader in digital security, announces that inwi, the award-winning* Moroccan mobile telecoms company, is the first to deploy the latest version of its LinqUs Facebook-for-SIM mobile application which now includes the popular Facebook Messenger feature. Inwi’s 12 million Moroccan subscribers will have the opportunity to enjoy seamless and intuitive mobile access to the world’s leading social network site. In a country where smartphone penetration is only at 16%**, the solution provides an opportunity for the many users to enjoy Facebook’s services from any…
BANGUI, Central African Republic, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The city of Bangui has been the theater for more than a week now of violence characterized by armed robbery and summary and extrajudicial killings. Amongst the identified victims are FACA soldiers and Mr. Modeste Martineau Bria, a senior magistrate assassinated in the night of the 16 November 2013. BINUCA recalls that the security of persons and belongings are first and foremost the responsibility of the transitional Government. Therefore, it urges the national authorities to shed light on these killings and assassinations and to bring to justice the perpetrators…
ROME, Italy, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The signing of a “partnership on mobility” between the EU and Tunisia “is imminent”, according to the conclusions of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, in which Minister Emma Bonino participated, whose main themes included human trafficking in the Mediterranean. According to the 28 EU foreign ministers, the European Union and Tunisia have committed to strengthening cooperation in the field of immigration and asylum, and negotiations on an EU-Tunisia partnership on mobility was concluded, with internal procedures launched ahead of the imminent signing of the agreement. Moreover, it was declared that the…
MASERU, Lesotho, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Mr. David Dunn visited Lesotho during November 11-18, 2013, for preliminary discussions on economic policies ahead of the upcoming Article IV consultation.1 The team met with the Honorable Ministers of Finance, Development Planning, and Health, the Governor of the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL), Honorable Members of Parliament serving on the Public Accounts Committee and Economic Cluster, other senior government and CBL officials, as well as representatives of the financial sector and development partners.At the conclusion of the visit, Mr. Dunn issued the…