France Maritime Investors Eye Ghana’s Ports
A business delegation from French company, HAROPA, has met Ghanaian maritime companies in order to present transport and logistics solution offers available to and from...
Author : Jide Adesina
MTN Wins 2015 World Brand of The Year Award
MTN Group has won the 2015 Global Brand of the Year Award. The announcement was made at the World Branding Award ceremony held in London...
Why President Kiir is Comfortable in Deciding Not To Reverse a Decision To Expand 10 States to 28 in South Sudan
President Kiir announced a decree that called for creation of 28 states. In the minutes following, the public outburst with the joys and ululations in...
Sub-Saharan Africa Rates Poorly in Equal Education For Boys and Girls
Less than half of the world’s countries have equal numbers of girls and boys in school with not one sub-Saharan African nation achieving equality, according...
Revenues From Nigeria Oil Sales Decline Sharpy
Revenues from Nigeria oil sales decline sharpy: official Lagos (AFP) – Revenues from Nigeria’s oil sales declined by over two-thirds between September last year and...
AVIC Works To Make Africa Soar
The Chinese giant with roots in aviation is looking to help the continent with itstechnology advantages Energy shortages and the lack of technical training in...
IMF Urges Nigeria CBN To Review Forex Policy….
As the foreign exchange market records further widening of the parallel market margin, the Director, African Department of International Monetary Fund, IMF, Ms Antoinette Sayer,...
South Africa Aims To Abandon International Criminal Court
South Africa’s ruling party has resolved to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, inflicting further damage on the beleaguered court after a wave of verbal...
Calm in Guinea on Election Day
Millions of Guineans voted peacefully on Sunday in the West African country’s second free election since independence from France nearly 60 years ago. President Alpha...
Chinese-built Gas Project Launched in Tanzania
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete on Saturday officially inaugurated a 535-kilometer gas pipeline built with a 1.225-billion-U.S.-dollar concessional loan from the Export-Import Bank of China. The...
Many of The Changes Will Be Overseen By A Committee Whose Members Will Be At Least Half Ethiopian.
The ministerial committee to promote the integration of Ethiopian citizens into Israeli society today approved three hundred million shekels in spending toward the goal of...
Nigeria Reveals How Much Oil Price Plunge Has Hit Revenue
Proceeds from Nigeria’s oil receipts fell by two-thirds between September 2014 and July this year, the state oil company in Africa’s top crude producer said...
Nigeria Fighter Jet Crash In War Zone Laid To Bad Weather; Pilot Killed
A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a bombing mission against Boko Haram crashed in a windstorm in the country’s northeast, killing the pilot, an...
Johnson & Johnson Starts Ebola Vaccine Trial in Sierra Leone
Johnson & Johnson has begun clinical trials for an Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone. The vaccine regimen is part of a new study being conducted...
Central African Republic Rebels, Peacekeepers Clash
Seleka fighters are silhouetted as they patrol in the town of Lioto June 7, 2014. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic – French and U.N. troops halted a rebel...
Tunisia Signs 325-MTD Financing Agreement With AFESD
Tunisia and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Fund (AFESD) signed a financing agreement worth 50 million Kuwaiti dinars (325 million dinars), on the...
Ancient Ethiopian Man’s Genome Illuminates Ancestry of Africans
Prehistoric Man in Cave (Shutterstock www.shutterstock.com) Â DNA extracted from the skull of a man buried 4,500 years ago in an Ethiopian cave is providing new...
SES Partners With Softwire to Bring E-Learning Solutions To Rural Communities in Nigeria
SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), a world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of over 50 geostationary satellites, announced a multi-year contract with Softwire Digital Solutions...
Ban Appoints New Head of UN Mission in DR Congo
Maman Sidikou of Niger appointed as the new Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Head of the UN Mission in...
Strategies for Effective Governance in Africa ; Towards Nigeria @ 55
EDITORIAL BY ‘JIDE ADESINA This editorial presents strategies for effective governance in Africa with emphasis on Nigeria @ 55.The question of good and effective governance has...