ADDIS ABABA – Mr. Thomas Asare, Director of Planning Budget Finance and Accounting, at the African Union Commission gave a press briefing on Implementation- International Public...
… Fund will aim to spur a secondary market for mortgages … Nigeria faces 17 million housing shortage … Mortgage lending just 0.5 percent of GDP...
WASHINGTON – Stocks opened broadly lower, with blue chips headed for a third-straight loss, as weak data out of China set a negative tone while investors...
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government and labor-union officials agreed in principle to meet tomorrow to resolve a strike that’s crippling output at the world’s three biggest...
PORT HARCOURT – SABMiller PLC, a multinational brewing and beverage company headquartered in London, said it plans to invest $110 million expanding production capacity in Nigeria,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. stock-index futures fell, indicating that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may decline for the first time in three days, as investors awaited...
SEOUL – South Korea’s already impressive internet speeds are about to pull even farther ahead of the rest of the world with plans to introduce a...
NAIROBI – Mauritania’s central bank says it will develop Islamic finance as part of efforts to modernize the banking system and make long-term loans available to companies. “A...
SYDNEY – Asian markets got off to a soggy start on Thursday as investors counted down to data on Chinese manufacturing, while diverging outlooks for interest...
ABUJA – The Weights and Measures Department (WMD) of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has vowed to prosecute more companies in the oil...
