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Ghana’s economic woes worsened by flooding
Ghana’s brilliant economic profile has recently been tainted by a combination of power disruptions and a full-fledged fiscal crisis. Despite several attempts solve its socio-economic problems—from...
View ArticleWhy Nigeria’s biggest oil merger of 2015 failed to materialize
Earlier in the year, indigenous player Seplat announced its intention to acquire or pursue a merger with Afren, a UK-listed upstream oil player with operations in Nigeria. If successful, the deal would...
View ArticleHow deep is inequality in Africa?
A global discussion was sparked at the beginning of the year after anti-poverty charity Oxfam published its legendary report asserting that the top 1 percent of wealthy individuals would soon own more...
View ArticleHere is what Gordon Brown thinks Africa needs to get its infrastructure act...
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, last week, outlined a new infrastructure dream for Africa at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa. He noted—during the release of a report on the WEF’s...
View ArticleNew gas discoveries to save Tanzania $1bn annually
Tanzania’s current natural gas reserves now stand at about 55 trillion cubic feet (tcf) following new deep sea discoveries off its southern coast. According to the East African nation’s energy...
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How UNICEF is helping Liberian schools recover from Ebola
As Liberia continues to piece its communities together after the Ebola saga, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has embarked on a distribution of 700,000 teaching and learning kits to...
View ArticleCourt stops Zimbabwe from expelling street vendors
A Zimbabwean High Court has barred the country’s government from evicting thousands of street vendors who have flooded streets of the capital city Harare and other towns. Last week the Zimbabwean...
View ArticleWhat could happen if Nigeria is ejected from the JP Morgan index
JPMorgan has threatened to remove Nigeria from its Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) by the end of 2015 unless the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) restores liquidity to the foreign exchange...
View ArticleHow productive is the Nigerian labour force?
Nigerians are known to be very hardworking. But the productivity of its labour force, which makes up about 29 percent of its population has often been questioned. A Release by the National Bureau of...
View ArticleWHY RUSSIA WILL NOT SHUN NIGERIA’S OIL
Oil has been at the top of Nigeria’s export list for the past decade or so, accounting for at least 90 percent of overall exports made by Nigeria. This is why the economy suffered greatly when the US,...
View ArticleRecovering Rwanda ranked the African nation with the happiest people
Rwanda, a country that has grown from a genocide-torn society to one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, now has the happiest people in Africa. Just about a decade ago, things looked gloomy for...
View ArticleEconet raids Reuters affiliate office in Zimbabwe following allegations of...
A team from Pan African Telecom giant, Econet Wireless, along with the Zimbabwean police, raided Reuters affiliated business news agency, The Source, in Harare this week. Econet’s decision to embark...
View ArticleFive elements a promising startup must portray to attract investments
If there would be just one moment in time when the world was filled with vibrant, energetic and forward-thinking youths who are crazy about setting up businesses, it would be today. In reality, it’s a...
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The furniture company producing for Nigeria’s elite
With the importation ban on furniture over a decade ago, Nigeria’s assorted-taste market has gradually turned to local manufacturers, which has led to a burgeoning of the industry. Backward...
View ArticleNigeria’s 2015 Elections: the card reader challenge
What was supposed to be a day of voting conducted within a ten-hour period on Saturday March 28, has extended to a second full day because technological difficulties with the advanced biometric card...
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Why a 15 year old decided to build bikes from bamboo in Ghana
At an African Leadership Academy event in Johannesburg last year, I asked a young Ghanaian entrepreneur, Winifred Selby, what motivated her to co-start the Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative when she was...
View ArticleWhy the future of African business is social
“Mobile is the future of Africa,” explained Briant Biggs, Roc Nation’s Head of Digital. This past February, Biggs and many other international digital brands came to Lagos for Social Media Week...
View ArticleWhy global lenders are favouring Morocco
Over the past half-decade, Morocco has seen a significant improvement in its relationship with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral financial institutions. The...
View ArticleRwanda tasked with pioneering eHealth for East Africa
The republic of Rwanda, reputed to be East Africa’s hub for technology, has been recently selected to be the regions center of excellence in e-health, biomedical engineering, health vaccines and...
View ArticleSouth African SMEs are under pressure to use tech more effectively
South African SMEs are under growing pressure to use technology in more sophisticated ways to meet the expectations of their customers, reduce costs, and stay ahead of growing regulatory and tax...
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