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Nigeria’s Finance Minister Presents Government’s Own Reform Scorecard — ₦6.47 Trillion Claimed for InfrastructureNigeria | 20 August 2026

Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele presented the Federal Government’s self-produced “Reform Scorecard” in Abuja on Wednesday, the administration’s own accounting of ₦30.64 trillion in incremental spending between June 2023 and December 2025. By the government’s breakdown, the largest single item was ₦9.39 trillion on wage adjustments and minimum-wage increases, followed by ₦9.37 trillion on external debt

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south africa approves new electricity pricing policy to reform power sector. tph news

South Africa rewrites its electricity pricing policy

Cabinet-approved policy replaces the 2008 framework. The headline mechanics: a mandatory 10-year Nersa price forecast (so heavy industry can underwrite investment decisions against a known price path), fully unbundled tariffs separating generation, transmission and admin costs, tariffs moving to cost-reflective pricing over 5 years, and free basic electricity for poor households rising from 50kWh to

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Nigeria's Renewed Hope Plan: $24.1bn Capital Importation, $6.1bn Non-Oil Exports — First Results

Renewed Hope Just Produced Its First Hard Numbers: $24.1bn in Capital, $6.1bn in Non-Oil Exports

Development plans are easy to announce and hard to measure. Nigeria’s Renewed Hope Development Plan (2026–2030) — approved by the National Economic Council in August 2025 to succeed the expired 2021–2025 national plan, and formally unveiled by President Bola Tinubu in February 2026 — has spent most of its first year as a framework document:

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DRC Just Banned Concentrate Exports and Signaled It Could Tighten Cobalt Quotas Further — What Miners Need to Know Now

DRC Just Banned Concentrate Exports and Signaled It Could Tighten Cobalt Quotas Further — What Miners Need to Know Now

The Democratic Republic of Congo has spent the past decade tightening its grip on how its cobalt and copper leave the country. What changed in the first two weeks of August 2026 is the pace. Three regulatory moves — a concentrate export ban, a new by-product tax regime, and the clearest public statement yet on

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FERC’s Data Center Power Deadline Hits This Week. Here’s What Changes on August 17.

Six U.S. grid operators have until August 17 to explain whether their existing rules can handle the rapid growth of data centers and other massive electricity users — or propose changes. The fight is not only about getting power faster. It is also about who pays for the grid upgrades needed to supply it. The

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Washington Rewrites the Rules of Federal Contracting. The Real Test Lands August 28.

An April executive order is pushing the U.S. government toward fixed-price contracts, shifting more financial risk from taxpayers to contractors. One major deadline has already passed. The next — August 28 — could have bigger consequences for companies bidding for federal work. For decades, the U.S. government has used different types of contracts depending on

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