Tag: Morocco

AFCON 2025 begins in Morocco today; $7m prize at stake

Aminu Imam
AFCON 2025 begins

The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, (AFCON) kicks-off in Morocco today Sunday, with heightened attention on the expanded prize money on offer and a competition history that continues to defy form and reputation.  With $7 million earmarked for the eventual champions, the tournament is set against the backdrop of past shocks that have reshaped expectations at Africa’s premier football event. Under the revised prize structure announced ahead of the competition, the winners will earn $7 million, while the runners-up will receive $4 million. Losing semi-finalists are guaranteed $2.5 million each,…

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Gov. Sani in Morocco, woos investors on agro-industrial devt.

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Gov. Sani in Morocco

Governor Uba Sani, of Kaduna State, has joined leaders from across the African continent at the on-going Africa Investment Forum (AIF) Market Days 2024, in Rabat, Morocco.   This was disclosed in an issued statement yesterday, personally signed by the governor.  According to the statement, the meeting, which had in attendance the President of the African Development Bank (AfFB), Dr. Femi Adesina, some State governors from Nigeria and development partners, Governor Sani used the opportunity to pursue the strengthening of partnership in the realisation of a world-class agro-industrial zone in the…

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2025, 2027 AFCON: CAF names hosts

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
AFCON CUP

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has named Morocco hosts for the 2025 AFCON, while a joint bid from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania got the nod for the 2027 AFCON. Morocco won the hosting right by garnering 22 votes, after Algeria, Zambia and a joint bid by Nigeria/Benin Republic withdrew before the voting. At their voting at the Cairo Marriott Hotel in Egypt on Wednesday, the Executive Committee of CAF announced the North Africans and East Africans as hosts for the 2025, 2027 editions respectively A joint bid by Nigeria…

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Morocco Earthquake: Provisional death toll rises to 1,037

Aminu Imam

At least, 1037 people died in a powerful earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night, causing widespread damage and panic in Marrakech, a tourist Mecca, and several other cities, according to a new official report. The Moroccan Centre for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) said the epicentre of the quake, recorded at 23:11 local time (22:11 GMT), was located in the province of Al-Haouz, south-west of the city of Marrakech, a popular destination for foreign tourists. The earthquake killed 820 people and injured 672, 205 of them seriously, the Ministry…

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Nigeria, Morocco, others sign MoU on $30bn pipeline

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Nigeria, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Benin, and Guinea, on Friday, signed four Memoranda of Understanding for the construction of the $30bn Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project at the Abuja headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS). Commissioner, Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation, ECOWAS Commission, Sediko Douka, while speaking on the sidelines of the event, said, “The project is worth about $30bn and its impact on the African continent is going to be massive when completed”. Also, the project’s steering committee convened at the ECOWAS headquarters to discuss the progress…

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