• India

    Tanzania: Indian Companies Boost Investments in Industries

    [Daily News] India plays a crucial role for Tanzania to realize her industrialisation agenda as Indian companies boost investments in industries, cabinet ministers said on Tuesday.

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria: We're Ready for Investments From All Quarters to Improve Lives of Our People - Buhari

    [Leadership] Nigeria as a country recognized her problems early enough, but remained potential for too long, and so did not achieve much results, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared.

  • Nigeria

    EFCC detains ex-gov Udenwa for failing to refund N350m

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Imo State Governor, Achike Udenwa, for allegedly receiving N350m from the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman, during the build-up to the 2015 presidential elections. The money was said to have ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigerian banks can’t fund mining projects – Ex-NMC MD

    Everest Amaefule, Abuja The Federal Government’s plan to diversify the nation’s economy leveraging the solid minerals development cannot be funded by banks in the country, a former Managing Director of Nigerian Mining Corporation, Dr. Biodun Olorunfemi, has said. Olorunfemi, who is currently the Vice-President, Mineral Watch Global Investment Company Limited, ...

  • Nigeria

    Issues that can get you into financial trouble

    Ugodre Obi-Chukwu  Nigeria is right about neck-deep in a pit of recession.  Interest rates are on the rise, jobs are being lost and the Federal Government is broke. It’s a tough ordeal for everyone including policymakers and the government. Even the rich are feeling the heat as they see the ...

  • Nigeria

    Why we sealed off venue, by police

    The police yesterday said they shut down the Sharks Stadium, venue of the botched Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention in Port Harcourt to forestall a breakdown of law and order. Speaking, Force Public Relations Officer, Don Awunah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) said the action was a proactive move aimed ...

  • Nigeria

    Man Docked For Beating FRSC Officer

    An Abuja Grade 1 Area Court yesterday arraigned one Okonkwo Kenneth for assaulting a Federal Rroad Safety Corps (FRSC) officer while on duty. According to the prosecutor, BabajideOlanipekun, DSP, Mr Kenneth’s action contravened section 267and 243 of the penal code law. That on June, 10, 2016 one Ukikaegbu Prince of ...

  • Ghana

    Terkper lobbies businesses on EXIM bank

    Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has intensified lobbying for private sector businesses to enroll onto the Ghana Export and Import [Exim] bank and promote the country’s exports market. “I would want to entreat the private sector to partner with government in these institutions, it is true that the State Owned Enterprises ...

  • Giappone

    Tokyo stocks slide as yen continues to soar

    Stocks fell steeply on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, with the Nikkei average tumbling 259.63 points, or 1.55 percent, to close at 16,486.01. On Wednesday, it gained 149.13 points. The Topix index finished down 20.34 points, or 1.55 percent, at 1,290.79, after climbing 12.66 points the previous day. Stocks ...

  • Giappone

    Japanese exports dive 14 percent on strong yen

    Japan posted a trade surplus of ¥513.5 billion in July, though exports sank 14 percent from a year earlier as the yen surged against the dollar, the government reported Thursday. The fall in exports by the world’s third-largest economy was outpaced by a nearly 25 percent drop in imports, suggesting ...