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POLYMER Pavements, a recently formed company with the licence to a US range of plastics-based products, plans to create jobs and tackle SA's pothole-riddled provincial roads at the same time .
As the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Adamu Aliero introduces two new tax regimes; transportation tax and land use charge, existing residential amenities seem to be in bad shapes.
Barely one month after the display of the new customized waste bin introduced by Lagos Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) at the 2009 Medical Waste Summit, delay in the payment of land use charge by landlords is frustrating the distribution of the bin. The state agency had tied the free distribution of the waste bin to property owner's ability to show evidence of paid land use charge.
Before the end of first quarter of 2010, more than 15 infrastructure projects would be delivered by the Lagos State Government within Agege and Ifako/Ijaiye Local Government Areas. The situation is the same in every local government in the state.
Interswitch Nigeria has been named Stratus Technologies' EMEA "Partner of the Year". The African Regional Director of Stratus Technologies, Mr. Richard Sharod, handed the award to Mr. Mitchell Elegbe, CEO, and was assisted by Mr. Charles Ifedi, Chief Strategist Officer of Interswitch at the 2009 annual Techno Interactive conference in Calabar; an event that acknowledged best practices across ...
Though the 2009 edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair has ended, one product that caught the attention of many visitors was the Glo prepaid 3G modem, which was available throughout the 10-day event.
In its relentless move to continue satisfying its subscribers, the innovative telecommunications giant, Etisalat, has once again stormed the market with another mouth watering promotion tagged "double your minute". This comes on the heels of its recently concluded 3-in-1 9jillions promotion, which came to a close last week with the emergence of a one million dollar winner.
SURVIVORS of leprosy in Gulu and Amuru districts have received 15 uniports. The survivors, most of whom lost their fingers and toes, are not able to work to earn a living.
Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr Christopher Anyanwu, has assured that the renewed sale of moribund Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) to a new core investor would be concluded by January next year.
THE Gulu-Atiak road is to be upgraded to paved bitumen standard, Dan Alinange, the spokesman of the Uganda National Roads Authority, has said. Currently, the 74km-road located in Gulu and Amuru districts in northern Uganda, is a gravel road.
I have read recent media praises for mobile money transfers and congratulate Safaricom, MTN and Zain for implementing the service in the East African region. Safaricom has taken it to a higher level by handling international money transfers.
The Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) is today set to announce the winner of its telephone directory cover design competition, which has been running since October.
Management at a chemical recycling plant that burnt down in Bellville South is still not sure how the fire started.
SA has just 1 million broadband connections, 2%, according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics report.
The School of Finance and Banking (SFB), an institution of higher learning established with an intention of becoming 'Africa's Harvard School of Business' has blamed poor infrastructure for the failure to live to its promises.
Following the success of amnesty programme in the Niger Delta region, a firm, Dag Group Germany/United Kingdom, said it has concluded arrangement to partner with the Federal Government with a view to investing $30 billion on human and infrastructural development in the region.
THE government should raise electricity tariffs to a level that will allow Eskom and independent power producers to operate, according to consultants Frost & Sullivan.
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.
Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Régie de distribution des eaux (REGIDESO) produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.
If all African countries were to catch up with the best infrastructure, per capita growth rate could increase by 2.2 percent, according the latest World Bank report.
A small army of 950 Irish volunteers clad in bright t-shirts and hardhats and with white legs sticking out between their shorts and their boots, is determined to complete the building of 200 state subsidised houses within a week.
BOMBELA, the Gautrain concessionaire, said yesterday it had put forward a cheaper option which would see the first phase of the rail link completed in time for next year's Soccer World Cup.
President Paul Kagame yesterday received a delegation of German investors who are on a fact finding mission aimed at identifying investment opportunities in the country.
Students of the Matilda Newport Jr. High School in Monrovia last week resumed normal classes after they earlier left the school as a result of pollution.
SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said over $1 billion has been spent on the Gbaran-Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas Project, with the provision of employment for 6,000 Nigerians.
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