Nigeria: 2nd Niger Bridge for Commissioning Oct 2022 – Gambari

[Vanguard] In what appears as a pre-commissioning event, the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, yesterday led a team of senior government officials to inspect the progress of work on the second Niger Bridge that is primed to link major cities in the Southeast and Southsouth with the rest of the country.
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Ghana: GES to Begin Facelift of Philip Quaque, First Basic School in W/A … Following President’s Intervention

[Ghanaian Times] The Ghana Education Service has taken the necessary steps to rehabilitate the first basic school in West Africa, the Philip Quaque Basic School, to transform it into a modern school.
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Nigeria: Fashola – Foreign Contractors Must Deliver Same Quality of Work As Their Home Countries

[This Day] Abuja -- The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) yesterday warned foreign contractors handling major contracts in Nigeria to avoid delivering substandard jobs.
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Nigeria: Reconstructed 197-Year-Old Consulate Building Commissioned in Bonny

[This Day] Port Harcourt -- The reconstructed consulate building, a monument of about 197 years old, has finally been completed and commissioned in Bonny, Rivers State.
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Ghana: Rehabilitation of Philip Quarcoe Basic School Long Overdue

[Ghanaian Times] As part of his speech at the event organised in Cape Coast for the national celebration of the country's 65th independence on Sunday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced his government's intention to rehabilitate the Philip Quaque Basic School in Cape Coast, the first elementary school established in Ghana (then Gold Coast) in 1765.
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Ghana: Govt Hands Over Vea Dam in Bongo for Rehabilitation

[Ghanaian Times] Vea -- The government last Friday handed over the Vea Irrigation Dam project in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region to a contractor for rehabilitation works to begin.
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Tunisia: AfDB Grants Tunisia €103.95 Million Loan to Upgrade Road Infrastructure

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia and the African Development Bank (AfDB), on Monday afternoon, inked a loan agreement for ?103.95 million (equivalent to 335 million Dinars) to finance the Road Infrastructure Modernisation Project, Phase 2 (PMIR II).
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Kenya: Building Under Construction Caves in at Regen Area, Kinoo

[Capital FM] Kiambu -- A four storey building under construction at Regen area within Kikuyu constituency Kiambu County has collapsed.
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Liberia: Pres. Weah – It’s Time to Dedicate Projects

[New Dawn] President George Manneh Weah, On Friday, 4 March 2022 dedicated a re-modeled corporate headquarters of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) in Monrovia, saying he is no longer breaking grounds but dedicating projects.
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Ghana: VP Bawumia Cuts Sod for First ’21st Century Model STEM JHS’

[Ghana Presidency] Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has cut sod for work to begin on the first of planned nationwide construction of model STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)-based Junior High Schools at Essikado in the Western Region.
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