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NEED FOR INVESTMENT IN NIGERIA’S LIVESTOCK SECTOR



The poor health and welfare reputation of Nigeria’s abattoirs and meat processors has undermined the reputation of its meat sector, helping reduce exports to a derisory level.

It is a problem, because livestock accounts for one-third of Nigeria’s agricultural GDP, providing income, employment, food, farm energy, manure, fuel and transport.…

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NIGERIA STEEL MINISTER DETERMINED TO PROMOTE BACKWARD INTEGRATION IN STEEL PRODUCTION



Nigeria’s minister of mines and steel has told Steel First that his government intends to push ahead with its policy of developing comprehensive backward integration for the country’s iron and steel sectors.

The plan had been unveiled on January 23 by mines and steel minister Architect Musa Mohammed Sada, with Nigeria’s industry minister, at a forum in Lagos on the ‘transformation of minerals, iron and steel sub-sector for industrial revolution in Nigeria.’…

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COCA COLA NIGERIA, NBC REBUFF HARMFUL DRINK CLAIM



Coca Cola Nigeria Limited and its bottling partner the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) have rebuffed claims from a consumer agency that they have produced Sprite that is potentially harmful to consumers. Speaking to just-drinks, Mrs Adeyanju Olomola, head of public affairs and communications for NBC said both companies always complied with the country’s laws and regulatory requirements.…

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INNOVATIVE AND LOCAL AFRICA FINANCE CORPORATION RECEIVES HIGH CREDIT RATING



AFTER six years of financing some of the largest infrastructure projects across Africa, a groundbreaking multilateral development institution – the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) – has attained its investment grade international credit rating. Moody’s Investors Service assigned the corporation an A3 (long term) /P2 (short term) foreign currency debt rating, making the AFC, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria the second highest investment grade rated financial institution based on the African continent, following the long-established Africa Development Bank (ADB).…

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EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES MOVING TOWARD MORE LOCAL VACCINE MANUFACTURE



ALTHOUGH two-thirds of vaccine research and development (R&D) globally is carried out by European firms, manufacturers in China, India and Brazil are becoming increasingly muscular and “moving from dependency to self-sufficiency” experts at a two-day conference in Brussels on vaccine research heard last week.…

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TURKEY’S PAINT AND COATINGS SECTOR COULD BECOME EUROPE’S THIRD LARGEST – INDUSTRY PREDICTS



TURKEY’S paints and coatings industry has set itself the target of becoming the third largest paints and coatings sector in Europe by 2023 as it seeks to become a key regional hub within the international industry as a whole.

According to data from Turkey’s Association of Paint Industry (Boya Sanayicileri Dernegi – BOSAD), the size of the Turkish paints and coatings market reached 840,000 tonnes in 2012, with a value of USD2 billion.…

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EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM



IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

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EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM



IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

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BOTSWANA’S FIRST PRIVATE UNIVERSITY EYES INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXPANSION



Botswana’s first private university, the Malaysian-owned Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (Limkokwing Botswana), has continued to flex its muscles in this diamond-rich Southern Africa nation, taking advantage of a fast growing tertiary education sector. Botswana’s college and university student (aged 18-24) enrollment has grown from 11.4% in 2007/08 to 16.4% in 2012, or 46,613 students.…

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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN PERSONAL CARE MARKET GROWS AS WEALTH SPREADS



SUB-SAHARAN African makers of cosmetics and personal care products are profiting from a growing and increasingly stable regional market, where economic growth is increasing demand for personal luxuries.

A report, ‘Business in Africa – Corporate Insights’ by Dianna Games, Standard Bank South Africa estimates that more than half of Africa’s population would be living in urban areas by 2030 and 60% by 2050, when the population would be about 2.4 billion, compared to 1 billion now.…

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