Mr Oluniyi Robbin-Coker, Chairman, Board of Directors of the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) is passionate about attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) into key
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Improving Agricultural Production and Productivity
November 3, 2017 No Comment 76 ViewsWhen President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone appointed Professor Patrick Monty Jones as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security about one and half years ago, he was given a clear
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Foreign policy working for the good of Sierra Leone
November 3, 2017 No Comment 146 ViewsIn the five-odd years that Dr Samura Kamara has been at the helm of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, he has vigorously pursued the country’s foreign
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Sierra Leone is Full of Promise Despite all Odds — Kargbo
November 3, 2017 No Comment 78 ViewsSierra Leone’s Finance and Economic Development Minister, Momodu .L. Kargbo, is as hardened as they came. He has soldiered on as fiscal policy warlord in what many consider the toughest of times
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Leveraging Nigeria’s recovery momentum
November 2, 2017 No Comment 24 ViewsSigns pointing towards Nigeria’s imminent recovery from the recession it plunged into in the second quarter of last year started showing in the first quarter of this year. The National Bureau of
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Financing African trade for development
November 2, 2017 No Comment 65 ViewsCall the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) a child of necessity, you won’t be far from the mark The Afreximbank was birthed in 1993 following the commodities price shock and debt crisis that
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For Nigeria, The Worst is Over — Emefiele
November 2, 2017 No Comment 30 ViewsGood news does not travel as fast and far as bad. So it’s no surprise that news of Nigeria exiting the recession in which the economy had been mired since the second quarter of 2016 barely made the
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