Within the last eight years, telecom investments in Nigeria have exceeded, the $18 billion mark "on account of a predictive regulatory environment and supportive government for a deregulated telecom industry."

Telecom investments in Nigeria has hit over US$18 billion (N2.79 trillion) within the last eight years on account of predictive regulatory environment and supportive government for a deregulated telecom industry.

CASH-flush Asian investors are scrambling to carve up Africa's telecoms market and steal a march on their western competitors, whose appetite for risk has been bruised by the effects of the global recession.

An investment plan should be developed as part of the strategy to promote investment opportunities in Western Province.

Investor confidence in the Nigerian's capital market spurred early rebound of market activities yesterday precipitating marked recovery from the recessive trading witness on Wednesday which forced market capitalization down by N14.79billion.

Minister of Mines and Steel, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has attributed the the slow pace of development in the sector, to lack of geosciences data for investors and requisite infrastructural facilities.

Telecom investments in Nigeria has hit over US$18 billion within the last eight years on account of predictive regulatory environment and supportive government for a deregulated telecom industry.

THE spat between the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) and its investment arm, Nafcoc Investment Holdings (Nafhold), has turned uglier, with Nafcoc yesterday announcing plans to liquidate the investment entity.

Botswana Telecommunication Corporation (BTC) will have to part with US$75 million (P504 million) to secure reliable bandwidth connection from an undersea fibre optic cable through the West African Cable System (WACS).

PAUL Busharizi hosted Dr. Maggie Kigozi, the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), chief on his Money Talk show on 94.8FM Vision Voice to deliberate on Uganda's business environment, and specific reference to investment climate prompted by the global competitive report 2009/10,

Investment Opportunity: Construction & Materials Infrastructure

An ambitious plan to develop Western Province was launched on Thursday with Prime Minister Raila Odinga inviting investors to exploit agriculture, mining and tourism opportunities.

The global push for companies to include the environmental impact of their activities in their statements of accounts could not have come at a better time.

An unnamed consortium, keen on taking a "strategic" position in the specified Kingdom Meikles Limited, is going around the market soliciting for the company's shares, it has emerged.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved on Wednesday, 7 October 2009 in Tunis, a loan of Euro 53.33 million, equivalent to 48.56 million Units of Account (UA) to finance the Gabal El Asfar Waste-water

The Mozambique government will launch an international tender for a third mobile phone license in December.

The Rivers State government is partnering a Cuban company to build a malaria control factory in Port Harcourt. Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi said this yesterday when the Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria Mr Elio Savou Oliva led a delegation of Cuban

THE Federal Government has started an earnest search for investors to purchase the eight troubled banks whose chief executives were sacked by the Central Bank after an audit of the banks.

Information from investment promotion agency, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has indicated to The New Times that government has licensed two more breweries.

A former Head of State of Nigeria, H. E. Chief Dr. Ernest Shonekan, has passionately urged governments of African countries to seriously prepare for hard economic times, despite initially assumption that African economies were not going to be affected by