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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.
A section of the rapid rail network Gautrain route between OR Tambo International Airport and Sandton could be completed before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
TRANSNET yesterday said it had reshuffled its senior executives, temporarily filling the top post at its largest division that had stayed vacant for almost two months.
THE Johannesburg Roads Agency yesterday said budget cuts had forced it to scale back some road projects and "reprioritise" others in the country's richest city, which is battling with backlogs on capital projects and maintenance.
THE road tolls are starting to produce some serious money for highway maintenance with US$3,1 million taken since they started being collected in August this year.
The first set of two winners have emerged in the Lagos edition of Technology Distributions (TD)'s Laptopmania promo, the star event of the firm's 10th anniversary celebrations.
Former Abia state governor Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu smarting from a recent road trip to the Federal Capital Territory through the southwest has called on the Federal Government to treat as a matter of national emergency,building a Highway from Lagos to Abuja.
At the wake of broadband becoming the new baseline, the global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) regulators under the aegis of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has enjoined governments to engage in enlightened policies that could drive roll-out, innovation and affordable pricing.
An Onitsha industrialist, Chief Ignatius Agbalaizu, has decried the increasing deplorable state of roads, especially federal roads, in Anambra State and South East in general.
At the peak of its boom in the 1970s through to the 1980s, the Nigerian textile sub-sector gave direct employment to some 250,000 workers.
Nigeria Internet community would canvass for the appropriate security regulation and application, mostly on Internet Protocol (IP) blocking at the on-going Internet Governance Forum (IGF) holding in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
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.
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