The Congolaise de gestion de Loterie (COGELO) held a jackpot award ceremony on Saturday, August 19, 2017 in Brazzaville, to the lucky winner living in the Congolese capital city. In the days to come, a ceremony of the kind will take place in Pointe Noire to reward its winner.

On Thursday August 17,2017, the Minister of finance, budget and public portfolio, honourable Calixte Nganongo met with Mr. Lorenzo FIORILLO, the general manager of ENI Congo, an oil company. The purpose of the meeting was to have an exchange of views on the implementation of the project for the building of a third turbine for the Centrale Electrique du Congo(CEC).

On Wednesday, August 16, 2017, the Congolese government, represented by honourable Calixte Nganongo, Mi-nister of finance, budget and public portfolio and honourable Collinet Makosso, his counterpart in charge of primary, secondary education and literacy signed two memoranda of understanding with two private logging companies on the supply of 100,000 desks for Congolese pupils and the building of an interdepartmental modern senior high school at Vindoulou in Pointe Noire.

On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 in Ouesso, the adminitrative city of the department of Sangha, the Private Secretary of the Minister of finance, budget and public portfolio, Emmanuel Akouala-Mpan, officially opened the one stop office for customs clearance of goods in the presence of the prefect Jean Christophe Tchikaya who cut the symbolic ribbon.

On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 the Minister of finance, budget and public portfolio's Private Secretary, Emmanuel Akouala Mpan, received the second set of the equipment bought for the Integrated system of public finance management project. It is about Oracle Exalogic X6-2 server for hosting the applications of the project, but also the other applications of the ministry such as the management of human resources and the payroll (HR-Payroll) or that of the tax department.

From Monday 21 to Friday 25, August, 2017 Brazzaville(Congo), the Insurance International Institute will hold a seminar intended for the executives in charge of the insurance monitoring of member states of the inter African Insurance Market Conference (CIMA).

The seminar will be held under the aegis of the Minister of finance, budget and public portfolio, honourable Calixte Nganongo, on the theme : « monitoring process of insurance companies and basics for the writing of a contradictory monitoring report».

« Having a debate on the obstacles to the participation of primary dealers approved in Congo on the market of government securities via open subscription, in comparison to other countries of CEMAC(Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa)» was the purpose of the meeting held on Tuesday, April 1, 2017 at Radisson hotel in Brazzaville and chaired by the representative of the Congolese Minister of finance, budget and public portfolio, Armel Fridelin Mbouloukoue.

On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 in Ouesso, the adminitrative city of the department of Sangha, the Private Secretary of the Minister of finance, budget and public portfolio, Emmanuel Akouala-Mpan, officially opened the one stop office for customs clearance of goods in the presence of the prefect Jean Christophe Tchikaya who cut the symbolic ribbon.

The 2017-2022 strategic plan was one of the items on the agenda of the ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Development Bank of the Central African States (BDEAC), which took place on July 24, 2017 in Brazzaville(Congo) under the aegis of the Equatorial Guinean minister of finance and budget, honourable Miguel Engonga-Obiang Eyang. His counterparts of CEMAC, honourable Calixte Nganongo, minister of finance, budget and public portfolio of the host country and honourable Christian Georges Diguimbaye, minister of finance and budget and finance of Chad also attended the meeting.

On June 23, 2017 two funding agreements were signed in the conference room of the Ministry of Finance in Brazzaville between honourable Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance, Budget and Public Portfolio and Mr. Djibrilla Issa, representative of the World Bank in the presence of honourable Ingrid Olga Ebouka-Babackas, Minister of Planning, Statistics and Integration, for the purpose of improving financial management in Congo.