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Seven bid for Zambian oil refinery stake
Seven firms have submitted bids to buy a majority stake in Zambia’s sole 24 000 barrel per day Indeni Petroleum Refinery, an executive at the agency handling the bidding said on Saturday.
Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) procurement specialist Mwila Kapita said Glencore Energy UK Ltd, Vitol SA, China Petroleum Technology and Development Corporation and Philia Trading were among the firms that had submitted bids.
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Nigerians disapprove 'outrageous' monthly allowance
The revelation by a Nigerian senator that lawmakers in the upper house of parliament receive about US$37 500 each month for personal expenses has prompted anger in the west African country, where most people live on less than US$2 a day.
Senator Shehu Sani, who represents people in the northwestern state of Kaduna, said Senate lawmakers earn about 750 000 naira a month, with a further monthly “running allowance” of 13.5 million naira which equates to US$37 500 on the black market rate of 360 naira per dollar most commonly used.
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World Bank grants Sudan US$5m
The World Bank has provided a grant of US$5 million to Sudan for reducing emissions from deforestation and forests degradation, a Sudanese official said Sunday.
Sudanese minister for finance Mohamed Othman al-Rekabi said the grant is "an additional fund from the World Bank after a successful phase of the initial program for reducing emissions ensuing from deforestation and forest degradation."
The finance minister met with World Bank resident representative Adama Coulibaly
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Tanzania state oil firm in US$3.25m tender corruption
Five suspended senior executives of Tanzania’s national oil company were on Friday charged with corruption offences over alleged irregularities in the award of a survey contract to a US firm.
State-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation’s (TPDC) managing director James Mataragio and four other executives were charged with abuse of public office.
They awarded a US$3.24 million airborne mining survey contract to US firm Bell Geospace without authorisation of the TPDC board, according to the charge sheet filed by prosecutors and handed out in court.
-Nampa/Reuters
Seven firms have submitted bids to buy a majority stake in Zambia’s sole 24 000 barrel per day Indeni Petroleum Refinery, an executive at the agency handling the bidding said on Saturday.
Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) procurement specialist Mwila Kapita said Glencore Energy UK Ltd, Vitol SA, China Petroleum Technology and Development Corporation and Philia Trading were among the firms that had submitted bids.
-Nampa/Reuters
Nigerians disapprove 'outrageous' monthly allowance
The revelation by a Nigerian senator that lawmakers in the upper house of parliament receive about US$37 500 each month for personal expenses has prompted anger in the west African country, where most people live on less than US$2 a day.
Senator Shehu Sani, who represents people in the northwestern state of Kaduna, said Senate lawmakers earn about 750 000 naira a month, with a further monthly “running allowance” of 13.5 million naira which equates to US$37 500 on the black market rate of 360 naira per dollar most commonly used.
-Nampa/Reuters
World Bank grants Sudan US$5m
The World Bank has provided a grant of US$5 million to Sudan for reducing emissions from deforestation and forests degradation, a Sudanese official said Sunday.
Sudanese minister for finance Mohamed Othman al-Rekabi said the grant is "an additional fund from the World Bank after a successful phase of the initial program for reducing emissions ensuing from deforestation and forest degradation."
The finance minister met with World Bank resident representative Adama Coulibaly
-Nampa/Xinhua
Tanzania state oil firm in US$3.25m tender corruption
Five suspended senior executives of Tanzania’s national oil company were on Friday charged with corruption offences over alleged irregularities in the award of a survey contract to a US firm.
State-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation’s (TPDC) managing director James Mataragio and four other executives were charged with abuse of public office.
They awarded a US$3.24 million airborne mining survey contract to US firm Bell Geospace without authorisation of the TPDC board, according to the charge sheet filed by prosecutors and handed out in court.
-Nampa/Reuters
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