LONDON – World shares rose toward six-year highs on Thursday and the yen languished at fresh lows against the euro and dollar after sentiment was boosted...
LAGOS – Oando Foundation, an independent charity launched by Oando Plc, has won the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative award at the 2013 Africa Oil & Gas...
WASHINGTON – The headquarters of the Washington Post is being sold to Carr Properties, a real estate investment company, for about $159 million, the newspaper’s former...
NAIROBI – The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) launched a new regional Finance...
ABUJA – There are indications that the Federal Government will stop kerosene subsidy in 2014 bringing to an end a scheme that has been widely criticised...
ABUJA – Barely 27 days after taking over the operations of successor generation and distribution companies of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), core...
LONDON — The Bank of England said Thursday it plans to cut its support for mortgage lending in the U.K. and nudge banks toward lending more...
ABUJA – A capacity building workshop for experts from the ECOWAS Commission, its Member States and other stakeholders is underway in Abuja on the Establishment of...
TUNIS – The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) work in clean energy financing received some welcome recognition last week from Asian Development Bank President (ADB) Takehiko Nakao....
ABUJA – Participants at the just-concluded 4th Annual Forum of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) have declared that the domestic electricity markets of Member...
