• Kenya

    Kenya, tackle insecurity or risk losing investors

    With an impressive growth and an educated workforce, coupled with a law-abiding ethic, it was the best bet.

  • Cina

    Business News: Africa's biggest firm sees education as new growth market

    Naspers Ltd plans to expand in education software as Africa's biggest company by market value searches for a repeat of the profitable bet it made on Tencent Holdings Ltd of China.

  • Cina

    Business: Africa's biggest firm sees education as new growth market

    Naspers Ltd plans to expand in education software as Africa's biggest company by market value searches for a repeat of the profitable bet it made on Tencent Holdings Ltd of China.

  • Brasile

    Em São Paulo, bando explode agência abastecida para saque do FGTS

    Criminosos armados com fuzis e metralhadoras invadiram a região central e explodiram o cofre de uma agência da Caixa Econômica Federal na madrugada deste domingo, em Jarinu, no interior de São Paulo. Leia mais notícias em Brasil  De acordo com policiais militares, a agência estava abastecida com dinheiro para o saque das ...

  • Brasile

    Uma em cada cinco mulheres fará um aborto até os 40 anos, indica pesquisa

    A segunda edição da Pesquisa Nacional de Aborto (PNA), realizada em 2016 pelo Anis Instituto de Bioética e pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB), aponta que 20% das mulheres terão feito ao menos um aborto ilegal ao final da vida reprodutiva, ou seja, uma em cada cinco mulheres aos 40 anos ...

  • Nigeria

    SERAP demands re-instatement of sacked worker

    Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama requesting him to facilitate the re-instatement of a worker sacked for reportedly exposing an alleged fraud in the ministry. It said  Ntia Thompson was sacked through a post ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘CBN will sustain dollar intervention’

    Chief Executive Officer, Economic Associates, Mr. Ayo Teriba, says he is optimistic that the Central Bank of Nigeria will be able to sustain its intervention on the foreign exchange market. Teriba told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja that increase in oil production and high oil prices ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA accuses man of swallowing 935g of cocaine

    Ramon Oladimeji The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Friday took one David Achebe before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly trafficking in 935 grammes of cocaine. The agency claimed that Achebe swallowed the illicit substance and was arrested on December 21, 2016 at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, ...

  • USA

    Over 130 experts reject Trump’s revised travel ban

    Over 130 US foreign policy experts have denounced President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, saying it undermines America’s national security and interests as much as the original order barring travelers from some Muslim-majority countries and refugees. “To Muslims — including those victimized by or fighting against ISIS (Islamic State) — ...

  • Nigeria

    NLC opposes new directive on custom duty on old vehicles

    Mr Ayuba Wabba, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday in Abuja opposed the new directive on custom duty on old vehicles by the Nigeria Custom Service. Wabba, in a letter to the Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali, stated that the directive was not realistic. He said ...