ECOWAS and UEMOA PRIORITISES INVESTMENTS IN TRANSPORT AND ENERGY SECTOR

ECOWAS and UEMOA PRIORITISES INVESTMENTS IN TRANSPORT AND ENERGY SECTOR

ECOWAS and UEMOA plan to prioritise mostly investments in transport and energy sectors.

At a recent European External Investment Plan meeting in Accra, Ghana; the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) said; it wishes to prioritise investments in the transport and …

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KENYA GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO LOWER COST OF PROJECTS

KENYA GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO LOWER COST OF PROJECTS

Kenya Government looking to lower costs of crucial projects

The government of Kenya through the Kenya Roads Boards (KRB), is in search of researchers, contractors and suppliers who will help to reduce its budgetary costs by at least 25%. Reducing the costs will enable them achieve more developmental projects.

Chair …

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US$40 BILLION REQUIRED FOR COMPLETION OF LAGOS-IBADAN RAIL PROJECT

US$40 BILLION REQUIRED FOR COMPLETION OF LAGOS-IBADAN RAIL PROJECT

Federal Government needs US$40 billion to complete Lagos-Ibadan rail project.

Nigerian Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said the Federal Government will be needing US $40bn to finance the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan railway project.

The project have been scheduled to finish this year (2018) and so Government are currently negotiating with the …

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NEW AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN ROAD SAFETY.

NEW AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN ROAD SAFETY.

An autonomous system capable of detecting actions which could suggest driver distractedness  has been created by researchers at the university of waterloo.  With the aid of  machine learning algorithms  it can detect patterns of behaviour when trained on enormous datasets  to recognise the hand movements indicative of texting, talking on …

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