THE Bill Melinda Gates Foundation today launched its fourth annual Goalkeepers Report, featuring new data showing how the ripple effects of Covid-19 have stopped 20 years of progress toward the The report provides the most contemporary global data set for…
PARTICIPANTS at a webinar to present the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) African Economic Outlook Supplement to Asian audiences on Monday have endorsed the report as critical for post-Covid-19 Africa. The supplement revises the growth projections and outlook for Africa for 2020…
ANGOLA’S attorney general has seized buildings and hotels belonging to AAA, a company associated with Carlos Manuel de São Vicente whose $900 million fortune has been frozen by Swiss authorities. De São Vicente was a key figure in Angola’s oil…
MONTHLY cryptocurrency transfers to and from Africa under $10,000 soared more than 56 percent from a year ago to reach $316 million in June, according to new research by US crypto analytics firm Chainalysis. Altogether, $8bn worth of crypto was…
BRAND South Africa hosted an Africa nexus research reference group webinar with key objectives to determine insights and perspectives on how the African Continental Free Trade (AcFTA) could enable economic recovery and development in the context of the impact of…
FOLLOWING a meeting convened by the Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) and hosted by the Afreximbank, a communiqué addressed to members of the WTO and the eight candidates who have been shortlisted as the institution’s next Director-General…
A Lagos lawyer, Mr Tope Alabi, has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss MTN Nigeria’s suit against the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. He said that the N1.04trillion fine imposed on MTN was in order, adding that the…
THE Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) did an appraisal of the Nigerian economy in 2015 last week and concluded that private operators in many sectors recorded losses of over N1.5trn last year as a result of scarcity of…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has faulted the competence of the suit filed by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited challenging the N1.04 trillion fine slammed on it (MTN) for allegedly breaching NCC’s statutory and regulatory directives. MTN had sued NCC before…
Operators of fuel stations in Benin City, the Edo state capital were Tuesday compelled to dispense products to consumers at the approved pump price The exercise which was carried out by the Department of Petroleum Resources DPR, ensured that PMS…
