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Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah is the former head of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and a former Minister of Telecom, Education, Mines and Energy in Ghana. In our CTA interview, conducted at the ACP-Europe Roundtable on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Dr. Spio-Garbrah reveals whether mobile or fixed broadband is better suited for giving Africans internet access, and talks about the support needed from the African governments.
The President of the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) has called on the National Assembly to follow the proceedings in the on-going Economic Partnership Agreement between the ECOWAS and the European Union to ensure that the final document adds value to the Nigerian economy. The NANTS President Ken Ukaoha made the remarks at the National Assembly, Abuja during the parliamentary briefing with the House of Representatives Committee on Commerce on the EPA negotiation.
With the current global recession, funding and financing has become a major issue in the Pacific region. The agriculture sector, in particular, has been experiencing difficulty in terms of accessing funds to support the sector. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the United Nations Commodity Trade and Development (UNCTAD) unit, jointly organised a two-day Pacific Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Enhancing Access to Finance for the Agricultural Sector from 20-21 October 2011.