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.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) is seeking through legislation to subsume other accounting and taxation bodies in the country.
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) .
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.
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.
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 sub-regional organization, The Mano River Union that groups Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea begins a summit of Heads of State and government in the Liberian capital, Monrovia Thursday.
Several Liberia's Lone Star players have been denied German visa because, sources say, the players' ages in their passports don't present their physical appearance.
La Cote d'Ivore will today become the fourth member state of the Mano River Union (MRU) when a one-day summit of Heads of State and Government of the MRU gets underway in Monrovia, with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chairing.
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.
Angie, 23, has been living with a fistula - a tear in the tissue of her vagina that causes her to lose control of her bladder - for almost one year, after suffering a prolonged labour. She recounted for IRIN
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.
Of 600 rape victims recently interviewed by a Liberian non-governmental organisation, 90 percent of the women were found to be suffering from fistulas - a vaginal tear which results in loss of bladder control and social stigmatisation.
