Nigeria
Nigeria’s state-owned oil company is to be disbanded under a new law which came into effect on Tuesday. The government said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation would be replaced by an independent company.
President Muhammadu Buhari said the Petroleum Industry Law, which was nearly 20 years in the making, marked the end of decades of uncertainty and under-investment in the energy sector.
Egypt
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he has received an invitation from the Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi for an official visit in the next few weeks.
A statement from Mr Bennett’s office said the invitation was conveyed by the Egyptian intelligence minister during a meeting with the Israeli leader in Jerusalem.
Kenya
A Kenyan man is reported to have been allowed to leave Qatar after earlier being detained on charges of receiving money to spread misinformation.
A migrant rights group says that Malcolm Bidali – a security guard who blogged critically about the conditions of foreign workers in Qatar – paid a hefty fine before leaving the country on Monday.
Ghana
Accra, Aug. 18, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a land guard to four years imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding the Member of Parliament for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Constituency in the Central Region of four plots of land.
In sentencing Dodoo, the Court presided over by Madam Evelyn Asamoah said it considered the seriousness of the crime and the fact that it was premeditated.
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