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March 20, 2022 No Responses

France Beat England To Win Grand Slam

France strutted to a first Grand Slam in 12 years as they ran in three tries to comfortably see off England in front of a jubilant Stade de France. Tries from Gael Fickou and Francois Cros gave the hosts a...

November 24, 2021 No Responses

CMA CGM Adds 62 Ships, Reports $5.6b Profit

For the third quarter (Q3) of 2021, French container shipping and logistics giant, CMA CGM attained $5.6 billion income, compared to $567 million recorded in Q3 2020. Meanwhile, a total of ten new owned vessels and three new 15,000 TEU chartered...

October 8, 2021 No Responses

France Stun Belgium To Reach Final

Theo Hernandez scored a superb 90th-minute winner as France hit back from 2-0 down to stun Belgium and reach the Nations League final. Didier Deschamps’ side looked out of contention at the break after conceding two goals in the space...

May 19, 2021 No Responses

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L-R: PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, EMMANUEL MACRON DISCUSSING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF DANGOTE INDUSTRIES LIMITED, ALIKO DANGOTE, AT THE ONGOING SUMMIT ON AFRICAN FINANCE MEETING/ POST COVID-19 ECONOMIC RECOVERY FOR AFRICA, HELD IN PARIS, FRANCE ON TUESDAY

November 15, 2020 No Responses

France Stops Portugal To Reach UEFA Nations League Final Four

France handed defending UEFA Nations League champions Portugal a rare defeat on Saturday, winning 1-0 in Lisbon. N’Golo Kante’s second half strike helped the world champions to reach the competition’s final four at the expense of the holders. Anthony Mar...

June 3, 2020 No Responses

France Approves $5.6b Emergency Loan For Renault

The French government said Tuesday that it had signed off on a state-backed loan of five billion euros ($5.6 billion) for carmaker Renault, where the coronavirus crisis has compounded months of management turbulence and prompted the company to lay off nearl...

May 27, 2020 No Responses

France Unveils $8.8b Support For Ailing Car Industry

French President, Emmanuel Macron unveiled Tuesday an 8 billion-euro ($8.8 billion) plan to save the country’s car industry from huge losses wrought by virus lockdowns, including a big boost for electric vehicles.The plan includes government subsidie...

May 17, 2018 No Responses

Paris MoU To Focus On Air Pollution From Ships

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) unveiled its plans to focus attention on marine air pollution in the near future. This development anticipates the new maximum limits for sulphur in ships fuel oil, which...

April 10, 2018 No Responses

Lufthansa Cancels 800 Flights Amid Strike

Lufthansa has been forced to cancel 800 flights on Tuesday as the spring of discontent among Europe’s workers spreads to Germany. The airline has axed half of its 1,600 scheduled flights, affecting 90,000 passengers. Workers are staging the walkout ahead...

May 2, 2017 No Responses

Nigeria LNG exports landmark 4000th cargo

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) on Monday, May 1st, 2017 reached another major milestone with the exportation of its 4000th cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from its Bonny Island Terminal in Rivers State to Mamara LNG Terminal in Turkey, which...

January 15, 2017 No Responses

How France can help Africa overcome challenges, by Buhari

The partnership between African continent and France has yielded fruits in so many positive ways but France can do more to help Africa overcome its challenges, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. In a statement issued at the 27th Africa-France Summit...

January 3, 2017 No Responses

Obiang, Equatorial Guinea’s VP on trial in France

(BBC) Equatorial Guinea’s flamboyant vice-president has gone trial in absentia in France on charges of corruption after he failed to stop the landmark case. Teodorin Obiang Nguema is accused of buying a mansion and sports cars in France with a...

December 31, 2016 No Responses

Mali sends back migrants deported by France

(BBC) Mali has sent back two people who were deported from France on the same planes they arrived on, questioning whether they were even Malian citizens. The pair were flown to Bamako using European travel permits or “laissez-passer”, not passports...