World Bank Report Highlights New Linkages between Sustainable High Growth and Job Creation
High-growth firms in emerging economies account for more than 50% of all new jobs and sales despite making up less than 20% of all firms in manufacturing and…
Nigeria’s Farmcrowdy, Kobo360, 12 Others, Win Big at AppsAfrica Award, 2018
Fourteen AppsAfrica.com Award Winners have been announced at the annual Awards party in Cape Town South Africa. Now in its fourth year, the Awards celebrate the best…
Nigerian Millennials Fuel Domestic Tourism
By: Seun Sanni, Nneka Chike Deola Akeju stood under the gushing waterfalls of Ikogosi in western Nigeria, laughing with her friends and other travelers as they explored…
AfDB Approves US$40 Million Third Equity Investment in AIIF3
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank have approved its third equity investment of US$40 million in Africa Infrastructure Investment Fund (AIIF3), a closed-ended…
Trade Relations: Nigeria Among Iran’s Top African Trade Partners…As Iran’s Trade Increased by 23 Per cent
A senior Iranian trade official announced that the value of trade between Iran and African countries increased by 23 per cent in the past Iranian calendar year…
How Zuma looted South Africa treasury, ex-minister squeals
Former South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has implicated Jacob Zuma as being part of an orchestrated campaign to loot billions of rand in taxpayer funds and decimate state institutions…
Google Lunchpad Accelerator Africa programme Graduates class 2
Google has graduated the Class 2 of its Lunchpad Accelerator Africa programme in Lagos. The Country Director, Google, Mrs Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor disclosed this at the graduation…
Investment: FDI into Africa rises … Morocco joins South Africa as leading investment destinations
According to EY’s latest Africa Attractiveness report, FDI was up across the continent last year, although South Africa experienced a fall in project numbers, on the back of…
I know my wife’s killer, cries Nigerian whose wife was shot dead in South Africa
The Nigerian Community in South Africa has expressed dismay by the fatal shooting and killing of the wife of a member, Mrs Leyness Mangu Irumudomo. The late Mrs Irumudomo, a.k.a….
The need for accountability for health in Nigeria’s political space
Min. of Health, Isaac Adewole By: Dr. Mike Adeyemi-Lawal Health, like housing, income and virtually all other aspects of human life, has a political dimension. The central importance…