Gani Fawehinmi Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone
Thomas Sankara While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas!
With Facebook now sitting on $16bn after its flotation, will we see the massive social network do a Google and develop its own phone? With its flotation, many think that Facebook is now a juggernaut, sitting pretty on $16bn (£10bn) of cash and a valuation that started the day at more than $100bn. Friday’s launch [...]
The British economy has fallen into its second recession since the financial crisis after a shock contraction at the start of 2012
British airports operator BAA posted a 15 percent rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, squeezing more growth from its busy London Heathrow hub but repeating its plea for permission to add capacity there.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has lambasted Nigeria’s House of Representative s Committee on Petroleum oil subsidy charging that the committee was out of touch with its reports.
The House of Representative ad-hoc Committee set-up to investigate the management of the fuel subsidy scheme has recommended that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Authority (PPPRA) and some oil marketers should refund over N1trillion to the nation’s treasury. The Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Farouk Lawan laid the report [...]
The Nigerian Finance Minister , Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has reacted to her non-nomination as the President of World Bank, explaining that it is no longer an aberration that our world lives on lies and make-beliefs.
Nigeria’s privatisation regulator said Manitoba Hydro of Canada (MHC) had won a $24 million power transmissioncontract, part of delayed plans to overhaul woeful electricity infrastructure. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced plans to reform the power sector 20 months ago but privatisation has been slow due to political wrangling, union disputes and government concernsover raising electricity prices. Africa’s most populous nation of more than [...]
The Fourth BRICS Summit, hosted by New Delhi for the first time this year, looks like another milestone in a short, yet, impressive record of the fast-growing informal block of major emerging economies which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
This came as British Airways said in a statement last night that all its fares were competitive and on a sound commercial basis.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian Finance Minister, will challenge the US grip on the World Bank presidency by running for American Robert Zoellick’s job, her South African counterpart announced Friday.
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