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The Advisory Board of the Daily Trust African of the Year award has concluded the screening of candidates, who were shortlisted from a pool of nominees, for the 2009 edition of the pan-African award.
"I was finding it difficult to educate my children after my husband passed on. When I attended the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) sessions on how to save and borrow money using a savings scheme, I benefited a lot.
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The 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, an event that marked the beginning of the end of Communism, has been a huge story almost everywhere in the world.
The uninspiring granite exterior of the London Stock Exchange provided the quiet backdrop for a meeting that would almost have gone unnoticed, if it did not have such a strong bearing on Africa's growth prospects.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call 'Marie Nerica' who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government.
Recently there was a tale of a palm wine tapper in Pendembu locality in Sierra Leone, who in the course of his daily activities, inadvertently climbed a palm wine tree only for his mobile phone to begin to ring.
The Information and Communications Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili and her counterpart in the Science and Technology Ministry, Dr. Alhassan Bako Zaku, would on Sunday, lead dignitaries to the Africa Information Society Merit Award (AISMA) and Cyber Nigeria 2009.
Soon after the National Assembly confirmed him as the new Nigerian High Commissioner to the republic of South Africa, I asked the retired Brigadier-General Mohamed Buba Marwa about what he thought the main challenges would be at his new duty post. I posed the question with the firm belief that that the volume of trade was tilted hopelessly in favour of the former apartheid enclave. The retired ...
Chelsea and Ghanaian ace, Michael Essien, last Saturday begun a journey intended to touch so many lives and improve the wellbeing of ordinary people at the launch of the Michael Essien Foundation (MEF).
A Virtual Study Abroad Programme will be launched in Ghana in January 2010. The programme is a collaborative effort between the African University College of Communications (AUCC) of Ghana and Simmons College of the United States.
Nigerian Eagle Airlines, formerly Virgin Nigeria Airways Limited has signed a codeshare and interline agreement with Kenya Airways.
Construction growth in Nigeria will be the fastest of all markets, according to the latest 10-year forecast from Global Construction Perspectives and Oxford Economics.
SUSTAINABLE Capital, an asset manager based in Mauritius, last week launched Africa's first sustainable investment fund, with seed capital from Sanlam Investments.
The DRC with an estimated population of 65 million has the second largest land area in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is rich in natural and human resources and in need of foreign direct investment to re-build an economy stagnated by prolonged civil war.
The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) have announced a groundbreaking partnership that will link African governments' commitment to agricultural development with concrete programs in seeds, soil health, policy, and markets.
Kwaku Gima has spent almost fifteen years building his family a house, and it's still not finished. The floor hasn't been plastered smooth and the kitchen cabinets are yet to be fitted. Last year the 47 year old high school teacher in Ghana got a mortgage from a co-operative society to build a home he expects to be complete within nine months.
SOUTH African scrap metal company, New Reclamation Group Limited, owned by Old Mutual Plc, is seeking to form a joint venture in Zimbabwe to mine diamonds in Marange.
Ruwa Town Council has launched a website to enable local and international investors access information on investment opportunities available in the town.
The 2009 World Travel Market (WTM) and Euromonitor International Global Trends Report, released yesterday said the global economic meltdown is taking a heavy toll on the travel and tourism industry, with business travel revenues down globally by 40 percent in July 2009 compared to the previous 12 months.
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