Chapter 941 Development

At the end of August, Kolo President Thomas Kabore visited Nigeria again. In Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, Kabore signed a package of cooperation agreements with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.

Accompanying Kabore on this trip is Ramesh Serrano, CEO of the West African Group. In this cooperation agreement, the West African Group will also invest in Nigeria on a large scale.

After all, as the largest market in West Africa and even Africa, Nigeria has the largest population and is extremely attractive to the West African Group.

As early as the beginning of this year, West Africa United Energy Company, a joint venture established by West Africa Group and United Energy Group in West Africa, had already taken over their oil shares in Nigeria from oil companies including Total and ENI. Due to the increasingly chaotic situation in the Niger Delta, these oil companies are entangled in the resulting reduction in oil production in Nigeria's oil fields, and therefore began to plan to withdraw from the oil extraction market here.

Now, in the cooperation between the West African United Energy Company, the Nigerian state-owned oil company and Shell Oil, efforts will be made to rectify the situation in the Niger Delta.

After all, the Nigerian government is not willing to see such chaos continue, otherwise it will not only affect local oil extraction, but also lead to a sharp drop in the revenue of the Nigerian government - currently, oil exports are still Nigeria's main source of income.

Therefore, they will try to solve the situation in the Niger Delta from two aspects.

First of all, the Nigerian government will once again conduct the largest amnesty operation for local anti-government armed forces. The government will increase local oil revenue sharing, provide jobs to anti-government armed members who lay down their weapons, and compensate for confiscated weapons.

In addition, after the amnesty, the Nigerian government will cooperate with the relevant military company (Protector Military Services Company) to intensify the crackdown on the small number of stubborn anti-government armed forces and strive to completely restore the local peaceful atmosphere.

To this end, Protector Military Services has expanded its "security base" in the Niger Delta region, and in addition to the original security personnel, more than 500 armed personnel with rich combat experience have arrived here.

In addition to cooperation in oil, this time the West African Group's investment in Nigeria will also involve agriculture, electricity, telecommunications, finance, processing and manufacturing, and Internet technology. The total scale of investment will exceed 100 billion kolos. shillings (approximately $10 billion).

If the investment in Nigeria by other Kolo state-owned and private capital, including the Kolo Industrial Investment Fund, is included, the total scale will be as high as 200 billion Kolo shillings.

Of course, not all of these investments will be made immediately. After all, even after the agreement is signed, whether Nigeria can maintain stable cooperation still needs to be continuously observed. The entire cooperation will be implemented in the next five years.

Compared with his predecessor Jammeh Bongo, Thomas Kabore needs to solve the export problem of Colo products when he takes office.

It can be said that Jammeh Bongo laid the foundation for the development of the new government of Kolo. With the development of more than ten years, Kolo's domestic manufacturing industry has also gained some foundation. From the initial simple processing of raw materials, to now it can Further production and assembly of more complex products were carried out.

Kolo's continued investment in education has also made it possible to expand the scale of their "high-quality" workers (relative to the entire African region). The current scale of Kolo's domestic manufacturing plants has increased by dozens compared with ten years ago. Hundreds of times - some chemical products and technological products can also be assembled and processed in Colo.

So if we want to maintain the continued development of Kolo's economy and prevent it from becoming like Nigeria, where most of the country's income comes from oil exports, then Kolo will inevitably need to expand more overseas markets.

Of course, other places have difficulties, but West Africa is their priority for development, especially a country with a large population like Nigeria.

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"Yes, the second phase of the Media City project is about to begin. After the completion of the first phase, many media companies have settled in, and now there is a lot of popularity there..."

Earl Bute finally returned to London from Asia. What he and Barron were talking about was the Media City built in Manchester, which was led by the BBC and SEM Group and supported by the British government.

At present, the first phase of the Media City project has been completed, and the BBC is still in the process of migrating some of its production operations to the Media City. However, Summit Studio, a subsidiary of SEM Group, and some of ITV's post-production departments have completed the migration to the Media City.

It can be said that the Media City project is the largest construction project undertaken by Argent Real Estate Group in the UK after the King's Cross renewal project, and Earl Bute naturally attaches great importance to it.

As support, in addition to SEM Group, companies including DailyVedio and YouTube have built their post-production centers in Media City to provide support for their own and some professional users' video production.

Barron also spoke with cabinet members including Cameron and Joe Harriman about developments in London.

After all, London is the economic center of Britain. It can be said that the eyes of the world are more focused on London in Britain.

However, under such development, there has been an uneven trend in England, and London's high housing prices and rents are not friendly to the innovative development of some industries.

Therefore, under their plan, they hope to transfer some of London's industries to surrounding areas, thereby expanding London's radiation range and forming a one-hour economic circle in London.

This is why the British government attaches so much importance to High-Speed ​​Rail Line 2. After all, this high-speed rail line can significantly expand the scope of the "London 1-hour economic circle", thereby providing a broader blueprint for their development.

In this way, everyone doesn't always have to focus on London and crowd into such a central location - if it can be reached in one hour to complete the commute, then it will be acceptable for some industries to relocate outside.

It's just that even though Barron has greatly advanced the process of high-speed rail line 2 compared to the original time and space, it will not be possible to complete the full operation of this high-speed rail line in three to five years...

Of course, on the bright side, if the London-Birmingham line, which is the fastest planned project, can be completed within three years, then the planning of some functional "satellite towns" around London can already begin. …