SMALL and medium enterprises are set to benefit from an intensive skills development training programme after the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development signed a Memorandum of Understanding with American Friends Service Committee in Harare, yesterday.
The Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, yesterday, for the second time, ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to appear before its next meeting to show reasons why it has consistently failed to remit to the committee, long outstanding crude revenue lodgments of over N450billion.
Leaders in the private sector and business managers have been called upon to influence international trade negotiations and seize opportunities presented by the global trading system.
Exporters of locally made products to the United States of America (USA) have cited East Africa's poor infrastructure as a major challenge to doing business in the region.
Five-hundred eighty-seven million people presently lack access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, a number that is projected to increase to almost 700 million by 2030, according to a report released by the International Energy Agency.
A major assessment of the impacts of oil production in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta has been flagged off jointly by the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Bori, near Port Harcourt.
In the last few weeks, the bubble of Dubai real estate market got burst and since then has been sending shocks direct to the spines of chronic investors in the city's high rise construction industry.
Over a year after the World Bank formally withdrew (September 2008) from the social welfare portion of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project (CCPDP), acknowledging that the goals were not going to be met,[1] the number and diversity of new analyses make now a good time to revisit the CCPDP and the lessons brought on by this 'pioneering and collaborative effort'.[2]
EAGLE-eyed, Bashiru Rugakingira stands with his bicycle at a street junction, a vantage point in Bukoba town, waiting for a customer.
South Africa's roughly 800 000 tertiary education students are the most wired yet.
The issue of carbon trading promises to be among the most hotly debated topics at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
WHEN it comes to Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele's comments this week on the recent spate of accidents at SA Airlink, we can agree on only one point: if the evidence presented to him in the next few days shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with the operation and safety of the airline, then it should be immediately grounded. However, we cannot agree with his handling of the situation.
GROWTH in the economy could be reduced by as much as 1,5 percentage points over the next three years if power utility Eskom got the go-ahead for its revised tariff hikes, SA's largest business group warned yesterday.
President Umaru Yar'Adua's health challenges may have partially eclipsed the 2010 budget debate, but what the federal legislators would eventually make of the N4.07 trillion appropriation bill will still be of keen interest to Nigerians.
House of Representatives yesterday declared null and void the decision of the federal government to take a $300 million from the World Bank. The federal lawmakers predicated their action on the grounds that the National Assembly was not consulted before government commenced negotiations for the loan
Politicians should not be allowed to administer development funds, a new study recommends.
After two days of controversy-ridden debate, Parliament has finally given the green light to a project aimed at leasing the Mombasa-Malaba highway for 30 years to a private investor.
A case against nine Somalis accused of piracy stalled on Thursday when two witnesses failed to show up.
THE government has renewed its intention to issue Eurobonds next year to finance infrastructure development in the country.
Barely few weeks to the effective take off date for the global ban on the importation of all Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) in January 2010, leading manufacturers of refrigeration, foam, fire-fighting, solvent, aerosol and agricultural have began industrial conversion of production lines to ODS free technologies, processes and substances. The deal is coming on the heels of affordable access to ...
After considering the complains and risks posed by the present location of the Benin airport to neighbouring residents especially the expansive palace of the monarch, Oba Erediauwa, the Federal Government is now proposing the relocation of the airport from its present site.
Ahead of the approaching festive season of Christmas and New Year, the Lagos State Government has commenced a massive rehabilitation and maintenance of identified bad spots in all the Local Government/Local Council Development Areas in the State. This is as the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Ganiyu Johnson assured motorist and other road users that most of the bad ...
TANZANIA faces an acute shortage of specialised personnel in tourism and hotel managements, which has forced some hotel owners to employ foreign experts.
GROWTH rate of extended broad money supply in September stood at 19.5 per cent almost the same as the rate recorded in the preceding month, but lower than 21.2 percent recorded in the year ending September 2008.
It is a sensible expectation that whenever any nation seeks to craft and enact a new constitution, it is also faced with both political and economic decisions.
