ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: SA made three key blunders in AU poll fiasco Business Day | THE recent failure of Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to become chairwoman of the African Union (AU) Commission was predictable. SA does not appear to have given much thought to the traditions of diplomacy and has committed three key b...
Chevron rig burns off Nigeria as damage hits shore Austin American Statesman | LAGOS, Nigeria — As a fire at a Chevron Corp. gas rig off Nigeria's coast continues to burn, locals say they're seeing signs of its effects on the environment and the health of those living nearby. | A nearby 12-bed clinic remains overrun wit...
Nigeria: Fuel scarcity looms as import volumes drop Joy Online The chances that fuel queues may resurface have become a clear and present danger, as the uncertainty caused by multiple government investigations into the fuel subsidy scheme has led to a corresponding drop in the volume of fuel imports into the cou...
P&G CEO tells of perils, promise in dangerous lands Cincinnati | In Pakistan, a country that hid Osama bin Laden for years, car bombings are common and coups and assassinations ensure a government in turmoil. | In Nigeria, when gas prices doubled recently, rioters took to the streets in Lagos, a city of 15 milli...
Oil Subsidy Probe - Representatives Threaten Oil Firms' CEOs Over Non-Appearance All Africa [Vanguard] Abuja - House of Representatives, Thursday, threatened Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of the major oil companies who failed to show up before the on-going investigative panel on fuel subsidy regime by the House. | ...
Subsidy Probe - Representatives Threaten Oil Firms' CEOs Over Non-Appearance All Africa [Vanguard] Abuja - House of Representatives, yesterday, threatened Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of the major oil companies who failed to show up before the on-going investigative panel on fuel subsidy regime by the House. | ...
Nigeria: IMF role in fuel subsidy removal? GroundReport | http://afripol.org/ | No matter how the Nigerian present economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, International Monetary Fund (IMF) played a significant role, if not an upper hand in the removal of fuel subsi...
New FNB venture in East Africa Business Day | FIRST National Bank (FNB) today officially launches its retail banking operation in Tanzania, which becomes the eighth country on the continent where SA’s third-largest retail bank has a presence. | FNB Tanzania, which started operating in July l...
Yemen kicks off post-Saleh election campaign Al Jazeera | Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the Yemeni vice-president, has officially launched his campaign for the country's upcoming presidential election, in which Hadi is the only candidate. | Hadi has been acting as Yemen's head of state since Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for 33 years, agreed to step down as president as part of a Gulf and US-brokered deal mean...
