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On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 3:45pm Eastern Standard Time / 20:45 West Africa Standard Time, at the NASDAQ world headquarters, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Africa Business Center will host Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, to ring the NASDAQ closing bell.   The U.S. Chamber’s bell ringing ceremony with President ...

The Chairman, National Quality Council (NQC), Osita Aboloma, has enjoined stakeholders in the agricultural sector in Nigeria to provide necessary support to ensure the success of the forthcoming African Cassava Conference (ACC) scheduled for Abuja in October 2023.  Aboloma called on the organised private sector, relevant Federal and State Ministries, Departments ...

Jaguar has supported the opening of one of Europe’s largest electric vehicle charging hubs that is located close to several of its manufacturing and office facilities. Opened by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, the hub located at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, ...

Operators in the transport business and other businesses have been called upon to embrace electric vehicles as their choice for mass mobility in the country because it gives the best returns on investment when compared with fuel vehicles. Sanjay Rupani, Director of Sales for Jets Systems Limited, manufacturer of Jet ...

Citizens and organisations from the 56 Commonwealth countries can now submit entries for the Secretary-General’s Innovation for Sustainable Development Awards to win prestigious titles and cash prizes. Launched by the Commonwealth Secretary-General in 2019, the awards recognise ground-breaking innovations from Commonwealth countries that contribute to one or more of the ...

By Stefan Heinemeyer and Carola Große-Wilde, dpa Regular train services between Berlin and Hamburg resumed on Saturday afternoon, a day after a suspected arson attack paralysed the heavily trafficked rail corridor in northern Germany. “Long-distance trains are running again in both directions,” a spokesperson for rail operator Deutsche Bahn told ...

Opponents of the German IAA car and mobility trade fair, which ended Sunday in the southern city of Munich, blocked a street and symbolically occupied a vacant house on Saturday. A spokeswoman for the alliance, which calls itself “No Future for IAA,” said that the aim was to protest a system ...

The share of purely electric vehicles among new car registrations in Germany reached the second-highest level ever recorded in a single month in August. The German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported 86,649 battery electric vehicles were newly registered last month. This means that just under 32% of all newly ...

In his first European public appearance as President and COO of DENSO, the Fortune 500 advanced automotive technology supplier, Shinnosuke Hayashi has revealed the company’s  business plans to invest €63 billion (¥10 trillion) in research and development over the next ten years in line with its pursuit of zero emissions ...

The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, has been engaging with stakeholders in Gabon to understand their assessment of the current political situation in the country. The Secretary-General, on a three-day fact-finding mission, met with General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the transitional president, who provided his overview of ...