ABUJA – Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as the biggest cement manufacturer in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as a result of growing demand and favourable government regulations...
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (ZimFund) is a short to medium term infrastructure development programme which supports Zimbabwe’s economic recovery by improving the quality...
NEW YORK – U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Tuesday, as investors looked ahead to upcoming economic data to see whether the recent equity...
TUNIS – The African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) efforts to improve sustainable energy supply and access in Africa took a leap forward with the Board of...
LAGOS – Tony Elumelu, the entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited , a pan-African investment company, argues that responsible resource-based industrialisation can power Africa’s...
LAGOS – The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Wednesday announced that the nation’s power generation now hovers between 3,800 mega watts and 4,000 mega watts....
ABUJA – Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc (WAPCO), the country’s second-biggest cement maker, plans to sell about 40 megawatts of excess electricity to help ease power...
TOKYO – The slide in the yen reached new extremes Wednesday as the currency, struck by rising expectations that the Bank of Japan will have to...
PARIS – The UN Security Council met two days ago to discuss different options on how to respond to the growing crisis in the Central African...
WASHINGTON – BlackBerry has rolled out its own social network, called BBM Channels, similar to a Twitter-like service that’ll allow companies and celebrities to directly engage...
