Progress has been made in discussions between the Liberia Telecommunication Authority and the for GSM cellular phone companies in respect of the standardization and licensing of the latter.

There was a lot of excitement as Warid Telecom launched its network and opened a customer care centre in Lira last Saturday.

To be a referee during some of the most heated moments in the country's scrappy telecommunications industry is not an easy feat.

Proposals by the GSM companies to credit their subscribers with N175 airtime as compensation for poor services from July is coming too late and too small, the Senate Committee on Communications has observed.

As more and more cyber-cafes bow to the threat of fines from Microsoft over illegal use of their software, the question arises: who is the winner in the crackdown?

No sooner had the new ministers assumed their respective dockets than they read the riot act to land grabbers and errant road contractors.

The national carrier, Kenya Airways, is set to launch new routes in Africa and increase frequency on some routes this financial year as part of its expansion plans.

As I travelled through Nairobi, the Rift Valley and Western provinces late last month, the issue that troubled me most was the lack of attention to the road network and other transport facilities. Why has the Kenya government neglected the

It's quite disheartening looking at the colossal billions of shillings lost in inflated road construction costs in connivance between the Road Agency Formation Unit (Rafu), a government agency, and the contractors.

Nigeria has signed a loan of $65m with the African Development Bank for water and sanitation projects in Yobe and Osun states.

A strategic partnership agreement was this Thursday here signed between the National Fuel Society of Angola (Sonangol), the Portuguese Commercial Bank and the Atlantic Private Bank (BPA), foreseeing the acquisition of 49,9 percent, by the national oil company and BPA,

When President Kibaki assented to the five labour-related laws late last year, workers cheered while most employers whined.

Teachers of the Ganta United Methodist School have threatened to stage a go-slow action if their two months salary arrears are not settled.

Justice Ben Hlatshwayo of the High Court judge has deferred until Monday the bail ruling on the case involving the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions leaders.

The organizing committee of the newly formed Liberia Labour Congress (LLC) has commended Labour Minister Samuel Kofi Woods and the Labour Ministry family for relocating the Ministry to a permanent site on the United Nations Drive in Central Monrovia.

AFTER the last eight of speeches, the President Umaru Yar'Adua's government is adopting the same approach in dealing with national issues that beckon for urgent solutions.

The UPDF yesterday offered curious public praise for the police crackdown on city criminals, moments after retracting a press statement in which the army announced it was itching to join the hunt for the urban rogues.

Tullow Oil of UK has discovered more petroleum deposits in the exploration Block 2 of Lake Albert basin in Western Uganda, confirming the widespread of the oil resource in the area.

Improved political dialogue in the Central African Republic (CAR), a peace conference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well as the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and CAR are all signs of progress