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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari thanked king Mohammed VI for the success of a Moroccan-Nigerian project under which Morocco will build a 1.3 billion fertilizers plant in Nigeria. ‘’We are well on our way to becoming a regional and global fertilizer power house,’’ said President Buhari on his official twitter account after announcing the signing by […]
Morocco’s phosphate group, OCP, has secured a $350 million loan facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) that will support the Group’s expansion plans across Africa. The Pan-African multilateral EXIM Bank announced earlier this week the signing of the 7-year $350 million term loan facility to provide financing to OCP Group. The bank, through its […]
Following the telephone conversation held last month between King Mohammed VI and President Muhammadu Buhari, a Nigerian delegation led by minister of Petroleum Resources Timipre Marlin Sylva is visiting Morocco to set out the next steps of the $1.3 Bln fertilizer production plant project launched in June 2018. Spearheaded by OCP Group and the Nigeria […]
King Mohammed VI and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria have expressed their shared determination to carry out, as soon as possible, the strategic projects between the two countries, particularly the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline and the creation of a fertilizer production plant in Nigeria. This came during a phone talk that King Mohammed VI had this […]
Nigeria partially reopened its land borders after almost a year and a half of closure. This decision was intended at the time to combat smuggling and encourage local Nigerian production. This reopening is a surprise decision, as was the announcement of the closure of the borders in August 2019. The commercial isolation ordered unilaterally, without […]
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum pinned high hopes on his recentb visit to African heavyweight Nigeria to gain some support for Algeria’s anti-Moroccan stance in support of Polisario separatism and banditry. But, he returned empty-handed save some ink on paper regarding projects to which both Nigeria and Algeria never showed genuine interest. Pro-regime Algerian media […]
A ministerial mission of ECOWAS arrived in Côte d’Ivoire to meet the various political actors. The opposition no longer recognized the legitimacy of the institutions in charge of organizing and validating the elections, scheduled for October 31, and demanded the withdrawal of the candidacy of outgoing President Alassane Ouattara for a third term. Will this […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged his peers to “resist the temptation” to stay in power “beyond the constitutional provisions”, saying such attempts are likely to create instability at a time when the sub-region faces major social and economic challenges. This was during his address to the 57th Summit of the ECOWAS held on September 7 […]
France’s largest hydrocarbons group Axens and the Nigerian conglomerate BUA signed a partnership contract on Tuesday in Paris to carry out the first stage of a refinery project which will be located in Akwa Ibom State, in south-eastern Nigeria. Nigeria, the continent’s leading crude oil producer but which imports almost all of its fuel, seeks […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has received several sachets of artemisia-based tea, which the Malagasy authorities praise as a remedy against the new coronavirus. The Covid-Organics will be tested by NAFDAC, the agency in charge of food and drug control in Nigeria, before being made available. Visiting President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, handed over the […]