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Resort Savings and Loans Plc has announced its plans to invest about N7 billion in the real estate segment of the Nigerian economy in the year 2010.
The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has called for better funding of the One Stop Investment Centre (OSIC) to attract more investment into the country. Mr Amos Sakaba, the Director of OSIC, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
THE Bank of China has started negotiations with the Tanzania Investment Bank to help it develop credit line for farmers.
The Kenya Power & Lighting Company board is set for changes, days after the firm announced it is gearing to reduce government shares in the firm.
Paul Wade, World Bank Senior Economist and Chair of the Joint Budget Support Framework Task Force explains how the newly agreed Joint Assessment Framework (JAF) works.
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IN THE report on the results for the year ended September 30, the directors of Coronation Fund Managers ( Coronat ) emphasised how the performance of their funds had been driven on the criterion of absolute return.
A RETIREMENT fund yesterday suggested legislation was needed to compel pension funds to invest unclaimed pension fund surpluses in job-creating projects and help the government deal with SA's worsening unemployment crisis.
Minister in the Presidency for Evaluation and Monitoring Collins Chabane was stranded without money or his belongings when he asked permission to use a state credit card for personal expenses, the Presidency said yesterday.
THE World Health Organisation has donated a consignment of swine flu vaccines that are expected to arrive in the country next month.
The Australian Embassy through the United Nations Children's Fund has commissioned nine boreholes at the University of Zimbabwe to alleviate the water crisis that has affected the institution for the past two years.
SOUTH African investors are keen to establish businesses in Zimbabwe and are anxious to see Zimbabwe's economy stabilising, a Rustenburg municipal officer has said.
The Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) has adjudicated on 300 cases with a monetary value of N100billion, in the last 6 years.
Eastern Africa coffee farmers, roasters and exporters will in February next year meet to discuss policy issues and measures that can facilitate the logistics and easier movement of coffee across borders.
East African Growers (EAG) has temporarily suspended its business operations in Rwanda citing unfavourable prices for its exports in the European market.
The Rwanda Development Board (RDB) in conjunction with the Netherlands Centre for Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI) is training Rwandan commercial attachés and some diplomats on how to analyse information related to trade and exports.
The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010.
Since before the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995, two groups of people have confronted each other: supporters of trade liberalisation, who regard the pursuit of growth as paramount, and opponents of trade liberalisation, who see unfettered trade as the cause of many socio-economic problems.
AFRICAN states are not devising a clear developmental strategy for regional economic communities, leading to international partners thinking the continent does not have a common approach and a vision for growth, says Egyptian ambassador to SA Mohamed Zayed.
The National Housing Corporation (NHC) is experimenting with a new model of financing which it hopes will unlock capital for rapid housing development.
The Volta Trade and Investment Fair, ended last Sunday, with various expressions from the exhibiters and participants concerning the event. While some described it as very successful, others said, much more needed to be done by the organisers in future, to make it more successful.
Endorsement of the proposed $40 million loan by Governor Ibrahim Shekarau, has pitched the opposition against the ruling party. The opposition described the move as incongruous, insensitive and out of tune with reality. Ibrahim Shuaibu, writes on the level of bitterness and unhealthy rivalry the situation has generated as well as the threat by the opposition to stop the state government through a ...
The signing of the much awaited East African Community Common Market protocol last Friday after eight years of haggling has flung open the door for what is expected to be a rigorous fight for market space in the region.
A financial analyst has given Uganda's investment future a clean bill of health and predicts that the economy is set to attract even more offshore investors than its African peers.
Tea growers are upbeat about the coming of the rains saying; it has boosted the production of the country's fourth export earner.
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