Presidential Adviser on Energy matters Dr. Emmanuel Egbogah, said Monday in Bombe, India that the Federal Government has invited Indian companies to operate in the country's oil and gas sector and expressed confidence that Indian investments in Nigeria would be profitable while at the same time it would secure India's energy supply needs.
APPARENTLY looking for a more practicable way of giving succor to the disabled, MTN Nigeria, last week, at the 2009 International Day for persons with disability commemoration put about 470 disabled persons on wheels.
Hearts to Africa Foundation, a non-profit making charitable organisation, based in the United Kingdom, last Saturday donated learning materials to 56 schools from nursery to senior school level in the country, at a presentation ceremony held at Atlantic Hotel in Banjul.
The Gambia, Senegal sustainable fisheries project is a five-year regional initiative supported by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/West Africa Regional Mission.
NAMIBIA'S refusal to conclude an interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) until the western bloc has addressed all the country's concerns is "commendable", trade law analyst Enga Kameni has said.
Cranes are busy offloading containers at Rwanda's multi-billion franc Convention Complex at Kimihura.
Of late artists like businesspeople bound by the dictates of good social corporate governance have turned into philanthropists in their communities.
Celebration Health and its various partners yesterday donated medical drugs worth US$4,5 million to the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to be distributed to hospitals countrywide.
THE national malnutrition level for children under five years of age continues to increase owing to poverty, a senior Government official has said.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth performance has improved substantially during the last decade and the World Bank attributes activity in the infrastructure sector as having played a significant role in achieving the growth. Though Africa's infrastructure still remains grossly inadequate, the upside is private investment in projects is increasing - particularly in transport, ...
Sub-saharan African markets are attracting interest from foreign fund managers seeking to diversify risks in their global portfolio. André DeSimone, executive director at Kestrel Capital tells us why Africa's stock markets continue to perform remarkably well despite their small size and low liquidity.
SA HAS seen some recovery from the recession that followed the international financial crisis, with growth in gross domestic product (GDP) of 0,2% in the third quarter of this year.
President Paul Kagame yesterday met Janamitra Devan, the Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and discussed how the institution can enhance investment and private sector development in the country.
The proposed merger of three regional economic blocs is soon expected to face an acid test when member states give views on recently released work plans that seek to guide the process.
The humanitarian community in Zimbabwe, taking a cautiously optimistic approach, has appealed for US$378 million dollars to buy food and medicines, and bolster health, education, sanitation and access to safe water in 2010 - half the amount requested in 2009.
Some 4.8 million Ethiopians will require emergency food and related aid costing $270 million for the first six months of 2010 in a country already plagued by prolonged drought and crop failure, according to United Nations estimates released today.
President Paul Kagame yesterday called upon African countries to commit more funds to the agricultural sector if the continent is to address the problem of food security and transform one of the major engines for growth and prosperity.
Being the custodian of the Ethiopian state must be an undertaking that shows no gratitude in return. In many ways, it puts those at the helm of power in a position of "Damned if you do; damned if you do not."
Agriculture, though has remained one of the priority areas of the development strategies of successive governments, is yet to make an impact in the overall national economic growth efforts.
At least 35 persons from government ministries and agencies and the business community have gathered for a five-day trade negotiation capacity building seminar in Monrovia.
The World Bank is expected to respond over the next two weeks to the tender evaluation of the Ministry of Education (MoE) for the publication of Civics and Ethics textbooks and teachers' guides for grades nine through 12.
ZIMBABWE has been recording huge monthly trade deficits with China since the beginning of the year in yet another blow to Zanu PF's populist "Look East Policy", latest data from the government statistical agency has revealed. The only time Zimbabwe recorded a trade surplus was in February when exports of US$28.8 million were more than imports of US$6 032 612, according to data from the Central ...
Olympic Athlete Zersenay Tadesse has donated 300,000 Nakfa to the Martyrs Trust Fund. He told ERINA that gives him deep satisfaction to extend assistance to the families of fallen heroes.
A lobby group has urged the government to suspend Kenya's public debt repayments until a new constitution is in place.
The Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC) Juma Mwapachu has said that the establishment of a free trade bloc will by May next year be pronounced by Heads of State of the tripartite regional framework.
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