Hundreds of pilgrims for this year's Hajj in Saudi Arabia were at the weekend stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, as their agents could not be found.
Indications emerged, Friday, that it took what could have culminated into a violent riot at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Apapa, Lagos for prison authorities at Maximum Prisons, Kirikiri to formally hand over the popular prison blue-and blue uniform to convicted Chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Board Chairman of Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Bode George.
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan could be the next two states to become members of the East African Community, EAC's secretariat in Arusha has revealed.
SABMILLER 's two main competitors in Nigeria, Guinness and Heineken, make nearly as much in that market as SA's brewing giant makes in 24 other African countries, excluding SA.
As President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania was about to leave Dar es Salaam on November 15 to attend the World Food Summit in Rome, he sat down at State House to discuss a range of issues with AllAfrica. One of them was food security.
British oil explorer Heritage Oil will sell its fields in Uganda to Italian oil group Eni SpA for between $1.3b and $1.5b, the London-based Sunday Times said yesterday.
Tanzania could become the biggest gold producing country in Africa following new discoveries of gold in the most unlikely areas of Lindi and Nachingwea districts in the south of the country.
THE eagerly-anticipated 2010 National Budget will be presented in Parliament on December 2 when the House resumes sitting next week, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.
The East African Community officially ushered in a common market on Friday amid renewed commitment by the region's Heads of State to expedite the envisaged political federation by 2015.
Long term lenders behind the massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya's largest green-field wind power scheme - are now asking for a government guarantee to cover the risks in the private-sector funded project.
Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.
President Umaru Yar'Adua has summoned the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives - David Mark and Oladimeji Bankole - over the 2010 budget presentation row which has pitched the two legislative chambers against each other.
General Farah Ahmed Omar alias General Farah Qare, the Commander of the Somali Coat Guard has expressed hopelessness against pirates.
The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich Somali region located in south eastern of Ethiopia.
