February 2016

Lagos— The United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said, yesterday, that about 100,000 Nigerians were currently living outside …

Turkey and Ghana have indicated commitment to increase bilateral trade  from $500 million to $1 billion. Aydin Nurham, the outgoing Turkish Ambassador …

Zimbabwe has announced that it will make the Chinese yuan legal tender after Beijing confirmed it would cancel $40m in debts. “They …

A South African king who is a nephew of the late Nelson Mandela has begun a 12-year prison sentence for kidnapping, assault …

By Friday Nwosu With the dwindling oil price globally and the continued fall of the naira, the National Council for Arts and …

A novel concept to end Africa’s logistics deficit is being proposed by the US defence company Lockheed Martin, which intends to use …

CAPE TOWN // Transporters moving goods across Africa put up with a lot: bandits armed with AK-47s, elephants using a fender to …

First the good news: West Africa has entered 2016 under somewhat less anxious circumstances than a year ago. Back then Nigeria, the …

By Melvin P. Foote, President, Constituency for Africa (CFA) The International Monetary Fund’s track record of imposing unnecessary and often at times …

The instability of Burundi, the East African country fighting poverty and political crisis, has an impact on the business activities of the …