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Leading economists from across Africa are meeting in Nairobi to discuss the continent's economy.
Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.
Pirates suspected to come from Nigeria have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says.
YOUNG Communist League (YCL) national secretary Buti Manamela says the call by its counterpart in the African National Congress (ANC) to nationalise mines only amounts to "state capitalism" and would not restore SA's mineral wealth to the people.
South Africa's economy turned around in the third quarter of 2009, registering marginal growth, the government's statistics agency reported Wednesday.
An American-Slovak investment group, Bay View, has pledged to remain firm and committed to the continued investment in Rwanda for the development of human resources and socio-economic development of the country.
The Federal Government is proposing to buy four more aircraft for the presidential fleet, according to the 2010 Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly yesterday by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
Like most industries that start off unregulated, the motorcycle passenger business is growing to be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. In a few years, it has become one of the most dominant modes of passenger transport in Kenya.
The Kenyan Government lost a lot of time implementing the economic stimulus package announced in June by the Finance minister.
The Islamic administration of Hizbul Islam in central Somalia has banned the business of Kat in Beledweyn town in Hiran region in central Somalia. Officials said on Wednesday.
A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday.
The Senate yesterday approved President Umar Yar'adua's additional supplementary budget of N353.6 billion as part of total expenditure for the 2009 fiscal year. This is apart from the initial N3. 049 trillion that was approved by the National Assembly last December for the 2009 fiscal year.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of FCT, dares tyranny for he has vowed to return home as soon as possible. Rufai who left the shore of the country last year for academic purposes declared in a letter that he will be home in December not minding the threat of an eight-count charge of criminal conspiracy and abuse of office while he was the FCT minister set against him by the Economic and ...
The Federal Government yesterday took step to link up with the global shipping communication network as the government yesterday in London, UK signed the Long Range Identification and Tracking System,(LRIT) Services Agreement with the International Mobile Satellite Organisation (IMSO).
Federal Government yesterday sought for Venezuela's investment in Nigerian's refineries as part of efforts to achieve successful deregulation in the downstream petroleum subsector.
GAUTENG roads and transport MEC Bheki Nkosi yesterday moved to quash speculation that the government was considering making additional funding available to the Bombela Consortium to complete the airport link of the Gautrain in time for the Soccer World Cup.
PARLIAMENT yesterday heard that the influx of old second-hand vehicles and the Government's decision to allow sale of second hand tyres is a contributing factor to the high number of road accidents in the country.
South Africa has emerged from its first recession in seventeen years.
The ink has dried on the EAC Common Market Protocol and now it's time for business.
Records of most schools in Nigeria, either public or private, are kept manually, in paper form. With the passage of time, vital records and information are lost as the papers get defaced. This problem, coupled with the difficulty of wading through a mountain of paperwork often result in wrong performance analysis, inaccurate planning, and inefficient management of the schools.
THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has signed today the Long Range Identification Tracking System ( LRIT) Services Agreement with International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) in London UK.
Aluminium roofing sheets dealers have faulted the recent directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on standards of imported alumnium roofing sheet allowed for foreign exchange purchases.
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Malam Abdul Salam Mohammed has said that Automated System Custom's Data (ASYCUDA) should be adopted so as to realize an electronically driven Port operation system.
SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the oil bearing areas of the Niger Delta has been charged to reject violence as an alternative to conflict resolution.
An aviation expert, Mr Gbenga Olowu has identified the aviation sector as one of the hardest hit by the global economic meltdown. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, Olowu said that as the recession bites harder; air travel has shrunk, hitting airlines and airport
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