• Kenya

    Sci & Tech: Kilimall rocks Black Friday with launch of Gionee M6 Lite smartphone

    Gionee has launched a new stylish smartphone in the Kenyan market ahead of Black Friday shopping festival. The Gionee M6 Lite has been launched in Kenya in partnership with Kilimall, the leading online retailer.

  • USA Kenya

    Kenyans in US should invest more at home

    My personal experience is that the Kenya economy and markets have kept up with global trends

  • Nigeria

    Senate probes secret, lopsided appointments in NHIS

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has begun a probe into the alleged illegal recruitment and lopsided appointment of some management staff of the National Health Insurance Scheme. The upper chamber of the National Assembly is also investigating the scheme’s expenditure on training and travels. The management staff of the NHIS ...

  • Nigeria

    Edo open to private partnership on job creation – Obaseki

    Alexander Okere, Benin The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday said the state government was willing to partner private investors in different sectors of the economy to create jobs and reduce unemployment in the state. Obaseki disclosed this during the inauguration of the N4.5bn spirits production line at the ...

  • Nigeria

    Ghost workers: FG’s monthly wage bill drops by N20bn

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja  The Federal Government on Tuesday said it had been able to reduce the monthly wage bill of civil servants in Ministries, Departments and Agencies from N165bn to N145bn. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr. Mahmoud Dutse, gave the figure in a chat with journalists on the ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Private school business: Placing value above cash

    Jennifer Abraham Nigeria’s public school system is currently decrepit. Many people blame this on poor infrastructure and funding but that is hardly the whole story. After the war in Eastern Nigeria in those days, some of us started school on cleared patches of bush with faded chalkboards; the ground served ...

  • Nigeria

    Cash call: Nigeria gets $1.7bn discount from IOCs

    Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja  International oil companies operating in the country have discounted $1.7bn off Nigeria’s $6.8bn cash call Joint Venture debts that accrued over the past six years, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said. According to him, the balance of $5.1bn owed the IOCs ...

  • Nigeria

    Ford enlivens Nigeria’s auto market with new Edge

    Rasheed Bisiriyu Just before the end of a recession year in Nigeria, characterised by poor sales and scarce new car launches, Coscharis Motors has unveiled the 2016 edition of Ford Edge, which comes loaded with sophisticated technologies including active noise control and pre-collision assist/pedestrian detection. The event, which was held ...

  • Nigeria

    Fed Govt reduces monthly wage bills by N20b

    The Federal Government says it has recorded N20 billion reduction in its monthly wage bill across Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs). Currently, the N165 billion monthly wage bill has now come down to N145 billion translating to N20 billion monthly savings. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Dr. Mahmoud Isa-Dutse confirmed ...

  • Qatar

    Lamamra holds discussions with Qatari officials in Doha

    ALGIERS- Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra started Tuesday a working visit to Doha, Qatar, where he broached with Qatari officials the ways and means to relaunch bilateral cooperation in several fields, the ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Lamamra was ...