Availability of good infrastructure- roads, power, water, housing, telephones- and stability, not tax incentives or free land, are the most crucial factors that attract investors.
The hospitalisation of 116 girls after consuming beans sprayed with harmful pesticides at a secondary school in northern Nigeria's Gombe State on 18 April has raised concerns about how dry foods are stored all around the country.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture invited tenders from millers and traders to import 17,383 metric tonnes of wheat flour for the year from Egypt and Mauritius. This is far less than the 52,149 metric tonnes recommended in the legal notice
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.
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.
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.
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 prohibitive cost of broadband in Africa, despite investments currently hitting 6.4 billion US dollars in the continent was the thrust of a paper presented by Eric Osaikwan, the Executive Secretary of African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) .
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said yesterday that it has granted about $200 million credit facilities to some Nigerian banks for on-lending to the different sectors of the economy.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) is seeking through legislation to subsume other accounting and taxation bodies in the country.
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.
Police in the Erongo region have mounted a search for a Togolese national who has been reported missing after he mysteriously disappeared from a fishing vessel.
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,
