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Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) is a mining company based in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central. [1] [2] Bindura operates mines and a smelter complex in the area of Bindura, Zimbabwe. BNC is operated and majority-owned Mwana Africa plc, an African multinational mining company based in Johannesburg. BNC is listed on the ZSE and the VFEX.
A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing. Devices of different types (e.g., a switch connected to a computer, or a switch to a router ) are connected with patch cords.
MTN Group Nigeria Multi-Links Purchased by Helios in 2011; at this time, Multi-Links had a terrestrial fibre optic network spanning 8,232 km in Nigeria. [54] [55] [56] NITEL: Orange S.A. [23] Phase3 Telecom: In 2011, Phase3 were building the West Africa One network, an aerial optic fibre transmission system which runs from Nigeria to Benin and ...
Anglophone Africa includes five countries in West Africa (The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and the most populous African country Nigeria, as well as a part of Cameroon) that are separated by Francophone countries, South Sudan, and a large continuous area in Southern Africa and the African Great Lakes.
It overtook South Africa to become Africa's largest economy in 2014. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 2013 debt-to-GDP ratio was 11 percent. [ 3 ] Nigeria is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank ; [ 4 ] it has been identified as a regional power on the African continent, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] a middle power in international affairs, [ 8 ] [ 9 ...
A series of lead poisonings in Zamfara State, Nigeria, led to the deaths of at least 163 people between March and June 2010, [1] including 111 children. [2] Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health figures, state the discovery of 355 cases [1] with 46 percent proving fatal.
The project began in 1982, when the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) proposed the development of a natural gas pipeline throughout West Africa. In 1991, a feasibility report conducted by the World Bank on supplying Nigerian gas to West African markets deemed that a project was commercially viable. [1]
In 2011, it was estimated that Nigeria had lost over $400 billion to political corruption since independence. [4]Nigeria’s president-elect bought a $11 million London mansion that his predecessor’s government was seeking to confiscate as part of a probe into one of the biggest corruption scandals in the West African nation’s history.