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.
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.
British Airways will resume flights to Zimbabwe early next year following a two-year absence in a move expected to improve tourist arrivals into the country.
The pan-African financial services Group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has continued to grow and expand in the continent with the opening of its Gabon affiliate; UBA Gabon, on Monday, November 16, 2009.
Mozambique has decided to pull out of a project to establish a shipping route from landlocked Malawi to the Indian Ocean, along the Shire and Zambezi rivers.
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.
Public Private Partnership Africa Conference provides a platform for all stake holders to promote infrastructure development, examine challenges and opportunities in the infrastructure: energy, transport and water sectors in Africa.
After decades of interruption, Somalia re-established its relationship with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday, 23 November 2009 with the signing of a USD 2 million grant to provide financial and technical assistance to Public Financial Management. The support to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia comes from the Fragile States Facility (FSF) administrated by the ...
Air Namibia-Ghana, has commenced direct flights from Accra to Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia .
The African Development Bank is hosting a meeting of the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA) in Tunis on 28 November, which will be attended by numerous African VIPs.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has signed a $10 million financing deal with Liberia's leading telecom company, Lonestar Limited; a company owned 51% by MTN Communications Limited for a network expansion programme. The deal is one of the biggest single projects financing by a commercial bank in the country and underscores UBA Group's role in project financing across Africa.
"If agriculture is so important in Africa, why is so little being done about it?" This brainteaser from the African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, set the tone for an AfDB-IFAD High Level Partnership Meeting which is reviewing a Joint Evaluation of Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, held on Friday 20 November 2009 in Tunis.
John Mirenge, chairman of RwandAir was pacing up and down from the intensive care unit to the reception at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali. His phone was ringing off the hook. Calls were coming in from all corners of the world inquiring about the November 12 RwandAir accident at Kigali International Airport. The victims had been rushed to the hospital.
The African Tax Administrators Forum (ATAF), an African network of tax commissioners, was officially launched at a ceremony in Kampala, Uganda, opened by the President of Uganda, Mr. Yoweri Museveni on 19-20 November 2009. The inaugural conference was attended by 29 African tax commissioners, as well as policy-makers and development partners.
The sorry state of roads in the South East has drawn the ire of a youth organisation known as Odimma Ndigbo Youth Movement which has given the Federal Government up till the first quarter of next year to fix all the dilapidated federal roads in the zone or face the wrath of the people.
