By Morkporkpor Anku – (ACCRA Ghana) – Occupational Management Limited, a UK-based, human resource consultancy firm, is organizing a two-day conference and exhibition for business starts-ups and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), from February 25-26, 2011 to empower new businesses and existing once in the country. The conference and exhibition will be on the theme: “Business Sense 2011- Turning ideas into profitable businesses to drive Ghana’s private sector forward”. A Statement issued in Accra on Thursday by Mr. Paul Asinor, Conference Director and copied to the GNA said the conference would enable Ghanaian entrepreneurs to learn and share ideas... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – BANJUL – Several government ministers, experts and development partners who have been attending the first Conference of African Ministers for Fisheries and Aquaculture (CAMFA) in Banjul, have reaffirmed the role of fisheries and aquaculture in achieving the 6% annual growth of the wider agricultural sector as envisaged by the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Programme (CAADP). This commitment should be transmitted by the support of member states and the African Union to strengthen the policy coherence in national fisheries sector regarding CAADP in order to enhance the role of fish in food security, poverty alleviation and trade development.... Continue Reading
The third German-Nigerian Business Forum is taking place in Hamburg, Germany from September 20-21. The event provides a platform for key public and private sector players from Nigeria to share information and create opportunities for partnerships with German companies. After a successful second German-Nigerian Business Forum in Abuja in November 2009, with more than 300 participants, the organizing parties, the German-African Business Association in co-operation with the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in West Africa and the Nigerian-German Business Association, once again bring together German and Nigerian business partners at this year’s forum. The two-day conference gathers a wide... Continue Reading
By Emeka Umejei – Reporting From The Gambia – Tim Bostock, Fisheries advisor to United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) has disclosed that mismanagement of fisheries cost African countries between $2-$5billion annually. Bostcok made the statement at the opening ceremony of the 1St African conference of African Ministers of Fisheries and Aquaculture taking place at Sheraton Hotel, Gambia from September20-24. “Africa may be losing the potential to harvest some $2-$5billion of economic returns every year as a direct outcome of mismanagement of fisheries,” Bostock stated. Stating further, Babstock stressed that Illegal fishing alone accounts for removing fish valued at ... Continue Reading
By Emeka Umejei – Reporting from The Gambia – A five-day training for West African journalists on policy of responsible fisheries kicked-off on Wednesday, September 15, at Baobab Holiday Resort, Bijilo,The Gambia. The training is organised by the West African Journalists Network for Responsible Fishery (REJOPRAO) with the support of the Jade/Syfia Senegal press agency and the European NGO Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA). The training seeks to equip journalists in the sub-region with the requisite knowledge and capacity to report issues bothering on artisanal fisheries. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Anicet Laurent Quenum, the communication officer of the... Continue Reading
