(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – La’Keisha Gray-Sewell, the founder and Executive Director of Girls Like Me Project Inc (GLMPI), a non-profit organization based in Chicago, has received a $50,000 financial award from the Black Girl Freedom Fund (BGFF) to support its capacity building programme for African American girls. The initiative is aimed at training African American girls […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Community Sport and Education Development (CSED) Initiative, has started its training programmes for netball officials in Utoka Town, Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State. The event is part of CSED’S plan to bring netball to the attention of one million Nigerian school children/youth before the end of 2027. The two-day […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project has pledged its support for the National Population Commission (NPC), particularly in the aspect of digitizing its Civil Registration processes. Nigeria Digital ID4D is a Nigerian project, jointly funded by the World Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB) and the French Development Agency. The Project […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Innovative Entrepreneurs Hub, a hybrid shared workspace and business development and management company of based in Los Angeles, has launched new crowd funding campaign to exclusively promote African American-owned brands. The crowd funding campaign is driven by the company’s ifundWomen initiative which recently announced a retail store called Our Culture Hub, a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Comoros Energy Sector Support Project which is driven by the African Development Bank has help to improve the country’s power grid in recent years, the Bank said in a statement on Thursday. Approved in 2013, the project aims to respond to a twofold challenge in the energy sector in the Comoros. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Center for Statistics (ACS), an arm of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has expressed its reservations on the possibility of Africa meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ACS of ECA which is the regional coordinator of statistics in Africa, said indicators from its SDGs Dashboard, a tool created to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Energy Chamber (AEC) has commiserated with the family and friends of the late Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Sansui Barkindo. Barkindo passed away on Tuesday July 5 in his home country of Nigeria at the age of 63. The Chamber in a statement on Wednesday, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kevon Chisolm, and his 15-year-old son, Kamari, have announced the commencement of another series of their online summer camps that teach children life-long financial education skills and discipline through 10 lessons with an emphasis on African American history and culture. This disclosed in statement distributed on their behalf by Blacknews.com. Their non-profit […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has expressed satisfaction over its support for the Kenyan Government in the implementation of its reform programmes aimed at strengthening the war against corruption and sustain inclusive growth in the East Africa nation. The AfDB said Kenya’s reforms agenda is also enhancing the environment for infrastructure development […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Okey Oramah will receive the African Energy Chamber’s inaugural African Energy Person of the Year during this year’s African Energy Week in Cape Town in October. The African Energy Person of the Year Award recognizes an individual who has been influential or prominent in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has urged the Irish business community to invest more in Africa. Dr. Adesina gave the charge while speaking at the 7th Africa Ireland Economic Forum in Dublin, the Irish capital city penultimate Thursday. Since joining the African Development Bank Group as its 81st […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a new partnership agreement with the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), which is aimed deepening their cooperation on the implementation of the Desert to Power initiative. The AfDB’s Desert to Power solar initiative is aimed at turning Africa into a renewable energy powerhouse. 11 countries are […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A renowned Public Relations Strategist, Dr. Walter Duru has urged public institutions across Africa to evolve plans for rumour management as part of their overall communication strategy. Duru, an Assistant Professor of Communications and Multimedia Design, gave the charge while contributing to a discourse on communications and citizens engagement during the just […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – White House-recognized innovator and founder of the Women CEO Project, Kristi Jackson-Muhammad has impacted the lives of over 300,000 entrepreneurs in-person, virtually and globally, through her conferences, digital products, books, private and group coaching. Jackson-Mohammad’s story has also gone viral for being one of very few Black women entrepreneurs that own a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two prominent African American entrepreneurs, Joseph Carswell and Daryl D. Jones have announced their plan to inaugurate a very ambitious project called Wealth First City, a series of smart cities centered around technology, finance, and green space for about 10,000 citizens. This was disclosed in a statement made available to the media […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wendy Shaia, an activist, social worker, author, and educator from Baltimore, Maryland, has predicted in her new Black dystopian fantasy novel that in the year 2024 there will be a racial civil war in America between Blacks and whites. Shaia, a British-Jamaican, is currently teaching at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A frontline international not-for-profit, WaterAid has harped on the need for utilities and service providers in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to prioritize performance improvement and gain credibility in order to reassure the investors. WaterAid noted that scaling up service delivery will go a long way in encouraging prospective investors […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States Government has pledged its support for the African Development Bank (AfDB) initiative which is aimed at increasing food production in Africa to avert the looming food crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. The Bank Group’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility, approved by its Board of Directors in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has said the world the world loses ten million hectares of forest every year, which is roughly the size of Iceland, the European island nation. Chief, Sustainable Development (SDG) Monitoring Section, Statistics Division of DESA, Yongyi Min made this observation while speaking at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a technical assistance grant of $2 million to fund research that will contribute to electricity reforms in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Established on 28 May 1975 via the Treaty of Lagos, ECOWAS […]
