• Kenya

    Kenya: Why Nairobi women have no business going to the gym

    I am certain, if it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of them wouldn't get any exercise at all.

  • Kenya

    Kenya: Migori man in shock as mother-in-law suggests weird remedy for ailing child

    Omusula said he flatly ruled out the strange mumbo jumbo and forcefully took the child to hospital where he got medical attention

  • Giappone

    Japan All out to Attract Foreign Tourists by Relax Age-old Regulations

    The Japanese government will relax its regulation on the foreign tourist guide licensing scheme as a way to attract more foreign tourists to its country, the Nikkei reported on September 18. This is a measure designed to increase the inbound tourist number to more than 20 million this year and ...

  • USA

    How should Buhari handle plagiarism scandal?

    What President Muhammadu Buhari copied from the speech of his United States’ counterpart was substantial but there wouldn’t be any need for an apology. What we can canvass is that the person that wrote the speech should be sanctioned. He does not have any business in the presidential communication team. ...

  • Nigeria

    Recession: worst is over, says CBN boss Emefiele

    FROM Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele has come a piece of good news on the recession-hit economy. “We have turned the bend,” he said at the weekend in Lagos. Nigerians have been grumbling over the tough economic climate – high food prices, poor infrastructure, job cuts and ...

  • Nigeria

    FACTS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC REVIVAL BATTLE

    Foreign portfolio investors have injected $1 billion in the last two and half months An Emergency Spending Bill, which will enable the government shorten the process of spending money (through award of contracts) is ready for the National Assembly Close to N374 billion will be injected into the economy this ...

  • Nigeria

    How Nigeria frittered $62b foreign reserves, by Emefiele

    Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele  and some media chiefs at the weekend met to discuss  the economy,  recession and how the misapplication of the country’s foreign reserves. The apex  bank chief spoke on the measures being put in place to revamp the economy. Group Business Editor SIMEON ...

  • Nigeria

    New Economic Policy May Increase Inflation, Forex Turbulence – APPOCV

    The Association of Professionals for Promotion of Civic Values (APPOCV), has said the recent economic policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), might lead to steep rise in headline inflation rate, turbulent foreign exchange market and sharp depreciation in the Naira value at the parallel market. APPOCV made ...

  • USA Canada Kenya

    The hurdles to saving Mau forest

    Efforts to save the Mau Forest, a vital water tower, are being undermined by encroachment, soil erosion and politics, even as studies show an environmental disaster is unfolding. The livelihoods of millions of Kenyans who depend on the forest are threatened as rainfalls patterns begin to change in the surrounding areas. ...

  • USA Kenya

    JSC retreats to Hague to pick new CJ

    THE Judicial Service Commission is meeting in The Hague to decide on the next Chief Justice of Kenya. According to sources that did not want to be named, all members of the JSC travelled to The Hague for the hearing of a maritime boundary case pitting Kenya against Somalia and ...