WASHINGTON – ConocoPhillips said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 74%, boosted by a gain from the sale of its Algeria business, while revenue and production declined. ConocoPhillips...
STOCKHOLM – A completion of large projects in the United States weighed on Ericsson’s earnings in the fourth quarter, but the world’s biggest maker of mobile...
DUBAI – Brent rose to 108 dollars a barrel on Thursday as bitter cold across the northern Hemisphere boosted heating oil demand. However, the U.S. Federal...
ACCRA – In what is a strategy to penetrate the Nigerian market, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) plans to create a ‘Ghana market’ in one...
NEW YORK – South African authorities should drop charges against a journalist who was roughed up and detained after photographing police officers allegedly involved in bribery,...
NEW YORK – Facebook Inc’s shares were set to open up 15 percent at a life high after the company’s resounding revenue growth underscored CEO Mark...
LONDON – Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell plans to sell assets, cut spending and freeze a controversial Arctic drilling program to improve returns after a...
JOHANNESBURG – The opening of a South African Tourism office in Lagos, Nigeria, was an invitation for Nigerians, Ghanaians and other countries in West Africa to...
LAGOS – The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service has shut down seven companies for failing to remit about N58.8 million personal income taxes of workers to...
JOHANNESBURG – DHL Express recently released its annual list of quirky, strange and speedy delivery requests for 2013 which ranged from delivering nine gorillas across two...
