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TECHNOLOGY ; A TOOL AGAINST CORRUPTION..

Posted on 23 January 201824 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Technology has proven to be better way to fight corruption. Corruption affects not just the financial level of the country but also the social level of a country reducing citizen’s trust in organisations. Technology has proven to be better way to fight corruption, in Benin for example, a youth group set up an app to fight the scourge called Anticorr meaning “anti-corruption”. It is a device that allows to denounce acts of corruption and will provide…

Competitive Migration Sales Specialist At Honeywell Nigeria

Posted on 23 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 129,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Competitive Migration Sales Specialist Location: Lagos Job Description Be the front line…

FIVE MAJOR AIRPORTS IN NIGERIA TO BE REMODELED.

Posted on 23 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Nigeria to remodel major airports in the nation. The Federal Government said yesterday that Nigerian airports will start wearing a new look with the plans to construct five new terminal buildings across the nation’s airports to make them align with international standards. Minister of Aviation Mrs. Fidelia Njeze said this while declaring open the 19th edition of the Airport Council International (ACI) Conference and Exhibition, Africa Regional in Abuja. She said Federal Government was determined…

Partner Business Manager At Hewlett Packard (HP)

Posted on 23 January 2018 by Gambeta News

HP Inc. is the global leader of printing and computing solutions. Were a company with the heart and energy of a start-up, and the brain and muscle of a Fortune Global 100 corporation. Our vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Within HP, the Africa region represents a massive business territory, covering over 50 territories, with a population of 1.2 billion people. We are currently looking for a highly motivated…

KENYA’S JAVA GROUP SET TO INVEST UP TO 10 MILLION WITH PLANS INCREASE ITS NETWORK.

Posted on 23 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Kenya’s Java group set to increase its foothold in the country. Java Group, the leading restaurant chain in Kenya, is set to invest between Ksh500 million (about $5 million) and Ksh1 billion (about $10 million) in an expansion drive that is part of the company’s plan to increase its foothold in the country. Kenya plans to invest between Ksh500million ($5 million) and Ksh1 billion ($10 million) to expand the java Group (the prime restaurant chain…

Regional Network Operations Manager At Smile Communications Nigeria Ltd

Posted on 23 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Smile delivers affordable, high quality and easy to use broadband access and communication services to customers across Africa. Founded in 2007, Smile is at the forefront of harnessing technologies to create innovative solutions that enable the cost-effective deployment of advanced communication services to everyone in Africa. In 2012, Smile was proud to announce the introduction of the first 4G LTE broadband service in Africa. Smile’s superfast, high-quality and reliable access to the internet is changing the…

Executive Assistant To The Ceo (Solar Energy Company) – Nicole Sinclair Consulting

Posted on 23 January 2018 by Gambeta News

The Executive Assistant provides executive support in a one-on-one working relationship. would serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external entities on all matters pertaining to the CEO. The Executive Assistant also serves as a liaison to the board of directors and senior management teams; organizes and coordinates executive schedules and oversees special projects. The indidual must have a consulting background and have good financial and presentation skills. Responsibilities Managing an extremely…

MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE MEETS TO REVIEW GHANA’S ECONOMY

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Quarterly meeting held by Ghana’s Central Bank’s Committee on Monetary Policies to review the country’s economy. Bank of Ghana committee on monetary policies met on the 19th of January 2018 for its quarterly meetings to review Ghana’s economy. The meeting which is the first for this year will be concluded today 22nd January 2018, with the committee releasing the policy rate for the year. The Central Bank in 2017 alone reduced the policy rate by…

ETHIOPIA DECLINES ARBITRATION FROM WORLD BANK OVER NILE WATER DISPUTE.

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Ethiopia and Egypt are at rival over the construction of the Ethiopians Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn turned down the idea by Eygpt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along its share of the Nile. With discussions deadlocked for months over the wording of a study on its environmental impact, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry proposed late last month that the World Bank…

CONSTRUCTION OF TWO AIRPORT IN MADAGASCAR GETS UNDERWAY

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Madagascar Airport set for construction after concession was granted that will help grow the tourism industry in the country. The construction which is for a public-private partnership concession of Ivato International Airport and Fascene Airport in Madagascar is set to kick. The concession which includes a new 17,500sqm international terminal at Ivato International Airport in Antananarivo, will have an initial capacity of 1.5 million passengers per annum plus the airport’s existing terminal will also be renovated to handle…

KENYA TO HOLD COUNTRY’S FIFTH DEVOLUTION CONFERENCE.

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Kenyan’s to focus investment on Agriculture, Energy and Trade. Kenya’s Council of Governors (CoG) has agreed to hold the country’s fifth Devolution Conference this year (Devolution is the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by a country’s central government to local or regional administration). The Council said in a statement that the Conference will be a sector-based event covering health, agriculture, energy and infrastructure, and trade and cooperatives. According to a World…

Personal Assistant At WACOT Limited

Posted on 22 January 201822 January 2018 by Gambeta News

WACOT Limited, a company wholly owned by TGI Group, operates in the agricultural sector of the Nigerian economy. Our business activities include but are not limited to rice milling, soya milling, production of fertilizer and agro-chemicals, sesame hulling which are exported to Asia and Europe, trading in grains such as maize, sorghum and groundnuts. We currently support the production of crops such as soya, rice, sesame, cotton, and maize as part of our out-growers initiative….

TOWER AND CONNECTIVITY SERVICE CHARGES DWINDLES ISPs MARKET

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Gambeta News

ISPs loss 60% of it’s earnings to tower and connectivity charges. 90% of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria have gone out of business among them are Swift, Spectranet, Direct on Data and Smile Communications. Surviving ISPs are complaining that 40% of their earnings is spent on tower operations, while 20% goes for connectivity charges, with this rate the Federal Government’s plan of having 30% broadband penetration this year will no be visible. In the…

ANGOLA GOVERNMENT SET TO REHABILITATE 7000KM OF ROAD

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Angola government to rehabilitate over 7000km of road that will help interconnect the national road network. The purpose of the rehabilitation is to interconnect the national road network in Angola that consists of 26,000km, of which 13,600 have benefited from rehabilitation and laying of asphalt for the first time, another 7,000 were awarded to contractors for rehabilitation and another 7000km await financing for its award and re-qualification. The rehabilitation is set to increase transport and driving in…

MOROCCO AWARDS CONSTRUCTION OF PUMPED STORAGE HYDROELECTRIC PLANT

Posted on 19 January 2018 by Gambeta News

VINCI Construction company to build pumped storage hydroelectric plant in Morocco. The Moroccan government has awarded the contract to construct a US$346m pumped storage hydroelectric plant (PSP), near Agadir to a French-based company VINCI Construction company. The project which is part of the development and integration plan for renewable energies, includes execution studies, civil engineering works, supply and transfer of equipment, assembly, testing and commissioning of the station. The civil engineering works will include the excavation of two basins, the digging…

ANNUAL GOLD PRODUCTION IN MALI UP BY 5%

Posted on 18 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Mali’s gold production increased by 5%. Production of gold in Mali increased by 5% from the previous year the figure exceeds the 46.9 t that Africa’s third-largest producer managed in 2016 and was well ahead a forecast of 45 t that the government had predicted half way through 2017. Karim Berthe, Deputy Director of Mali’s Department for Mines and Geology, said in a statement “There was real progress in the industrial mines … a net improvement…

UPGRADE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S SOWETO BRIDGE COMMENCES

Posted on 18 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Owing to the over-topping during heavy rainfall, the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) have kicked off reconstruction work on the soweto bridge over Klipspruit river, in Soweto. According to statement by JRA, the bridge in Klipspruit West is known to bring traffic to a halt during heavy downpours, rendering it unsafe for pedestrians due to the increased water levels on low lying areas of the structure. The bridge will be closed throughout the construction period which is from January…

KENYAN FARMER TO SUE GOOGLE

Posted on 18 January 201818 January 2018 by Gambeta News

A Kenyan farmer requesting for payment for destruction of his crops from google. Project Loon a Google programme sited at Joseph Nguthari’s property in Nthambiro, Igembe Central is a global netwrok of high attitude balloons that reaches the stratosphere, about 20km above the earth, the majorly act as mobile phone towers and provides 4G internet. Nguthari says the device was radiating a lot of light attracted many people who entered his farm without caution…

CIVIL ENGINEERS: FIVE IMPORTANT SKILLS NEEDED

Posted on 18 January 20186 March 2018 by Gambeta News

Back then in Rivers state polytechnic Bori, i was taught and made to believe that civil engineering is the mother of engineering. It is so important and vital that every sector in the economy can’t do without it. Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment which includes works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. The Engineering discipline has seen…

ETHOPIA’S OPPOSITION LEADER SET FREE

Posted on 17 January 2018 by Gambeta News

Merera Gudina set free after a year of detention On 3 of January Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegan announced that the government will pardon several convicted politicians and those with cases in court so as to enhance oneness in the nation, Merera Gudina was released today being the first political prisoner to be released. Merera, the leader of the Oromo Federalist Congress, has been in prison since December 2016 and was facing multiple charges, including association…

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