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The World Bank's Francisco Igualada, Senior Mining Specialist, Energy and Extractive Industries (GEEDR), is a featured speaker at the upcoming Nigeria Mining Week in October in Abuja on establishing a strong foundation for the mining sector.

The organisers of the Kenya Mining Forum have just announced that Mr Satchu will be a keynote speaker at the annual gathering in Nairobi, which has been moved from November to take place from 4-5 December.

Since the concession of 26 terminals to private terminal operators on the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) model, Nigerian ports have witnessed a rapid transformation (Performance evaluation of the Nigerian Ports: Pre and Post Concession Eras, 2014) and.

"I'm excited about Nigeria's energy future, Nigeria IS the future" says a confident Ade Yesufu, who is heading up the Future Energy Nigeria initiative that is taking place in Lagos from 7-8 November.

Women in power is a strong theme for Future Energy Uganda's opening session on 13 September featuring a high-level line-up including the Minister of Energy and Minerals Development, Irene Muloni, and three leading ladies in the power sector

In Uganda, Siemens' primary goal is to assist the government to increase national power generating capacities and to connect the local population to the power grids.

The award-winning African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit comes to Gauteng in October to gather leading built environment and property professionals from all over the continent to focus on "Developing Future African Cities".

Spintelligent, the multi-AAXO-award-winning Cape Town-based trade exhibition and conference organiser, had a strong first half of 2017 pulling off record results.

"I am quite optimistic that if the right steps are taken and the current momentum is sustained, the solid minerals sector in Nigeria can contribute up to 3% of GDP by 2025" says Cyril Azobu, Advisory Partner and Mining Leader at PwC Nigeria.

"The business case for renewables, particularly solar energy, is now proven in many countries, particularly those dependent on oil and gas imports and the cost of renewables can only go down" says Charlotte Aubin-Kalaidjian, CEO, Greenwish Partners