Category : ECONOMY

Oil group OPEC agreed to stick by its policy of unconstrained output for another six months on Friday, setting aside warnings of a second lurch...

Ruth Ndichu. Tax policy is closely linked to the economic growth in a country and any changes to the tax regime are bound to have...

Nigeria’s former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said her successor will face a “difficult” year because of plunging oil revenues and the economy needs expert management...

The outlook for Angola’s oil sector remains broadly positive, with highly prospective offshore acreage and a number of major projects under development. However, sustained lower...

A report says Africa is at the centre of many corporate growth strategies – its economy has grown nearly 3 percentage points faster than global...

EY’s Africa attractiveness survey indicates that investor perceptions of Africa reached the lowest level since 2011, but all is not lost Shopping at a clothes...

AFRIPOL to allow strengthening police cooperation as part of strategic alliance against terrorism  ALGIERS- Police Chief Major General Abdelghani Hamel underlined Tuesday, in Addis Ababa...

BY ;JIDE ADESINA 6 top directors of he Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has being implicated in a mega scam involving the theft and recirculation...

SOMEWHERE near the front of my first textbook on Economics (Samuelson, as I recall) is the diagram that used to explain the whole economic world...

DUBAI: Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, and Sidi Mohammed Hanan, Ambassador of Mauritania to the UAE, have discussed ways to enhance economic...

Summary Nigerian oil production and consumption have remained relatively stagnant. Nigeria’s population is growing at a rapid pace. Internal conflicts are causing other countries to...

The Director General of Public Security, Staff Maj Gen Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi met with Director General of Algerian National Security Major General Abdul-Ghani...

The Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) was held from 13 to 15 March 2015 and achieved results that surpassed all expectations, not only from an...

The Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Mozambique’s 2015 economic performance will be robust and stronger than most other sub-Saharan African countries, APA...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill witnessed the signing of several cooperation agreements on Tuesday. Indonesia was represented by...

There appear to be divergent views by stakeholders in the power sector on how the incoming administration of Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari should handle the privatisation...

Wildlife rangers, garbage collectors, doctors and more…you will be surprised where danger lurks. Boda boda operator (Photo: Greg2600)  WORK-related deaths and injuries are commonplace the...

South Sudanese government said its economy needed urgent diversification to wean it from depending on oil in long term response to the economic crisis, urging...

Depending on which statistics you read, up to 75% of Egypt’s workforce is employed in the SME sector, making it a crucial part of the...

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China’s biggest lender by assets, said on Wednesday it had signed an infrastructure agreement worth $2 billion with...