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Nigeria: 90 Percent of Companies in Country Not Registered

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Alhaji Garba Abubarkar, the Assistant Director, Compliance, CorporateAffairs Commission (CAC), has said about 90 per cent of companies in Nigeria, are not registered.


Nigeria: Bank PHB Launches Holiday Loan

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Bank PHB has launched another value adding product tagged Bank PHB Holiday Loan.

Nigeria: Rivers, AFC, Firm Commit to $1 Billion to Road Project

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), its partner ICMG Securities and China Harbour and Engineering Company (CHEC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in China that will facilitate the construction of a $1 billion, 125 kilometre, six-lane ring road around

Nigeria: Euromoney Names Zenith 'Best Bank in Nigeria'

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Another international recognition came the way of Zenith Bank Plc at the weekend as the bank was named the "Best Bank in Nigeria" for 2008 by the highly respected Euromoney magazine, once again confirming Zenith Bank's position as the market


Ghana: GHS Launches Corporate Website

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is being repositioned to take advantage of the immense opportunities that Information Communication Technology (ICT) offers.

Ghana: Sunon Asogli Power Plant Has Started Process for Licence

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Ho Asogli State, the brain behind the Sunon Asogli Power Plant project, an Independent Power Plant (IPP), has said the Shenzhen Energy Group from China had followed due processes to acquire the required licence.

Ghana: A Load the Private Sector Has No Legs to Carry

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
It is now a hackneyed statement that "the private sector is the engine of growth" from government quarters in this country.

Nigeria: Hope Rises for Customers of 'Wonder Banks'

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Succour seems under way for customers of some fund managers in the country popularly called Wonder Banks.

Gambia: Dubai Investors Meet Jammeh

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
A group of investors from the Dubai based firm, Emirates Investment and Development Company, Sunday afternoon, met President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh at State House in Banjul.

Nigeria: Tanker Drivers Suspend Strike, Begin Product Lifting

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Lifting of petroleum products from the depots suspended in the wake of an industrial action embarked upon by Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), an affiliate of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), will begin today as the drivers

Nigeria: Oceanic, Intercontinental, Access Named 'Most Capitalised Banks'

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
With barely five months into the December deadline for all banks in Nigeria to have same financial year, three Nigerian banks have been named the most capitalised in the country in the latest edition of The Banker magazine, a special

Liberia: Gov't Warns Price Hikers

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
The Liberian government has vowed to institute stern action against anyone caught hiking the prices of rice, gasoline and other commodities on the Liberian market above government's stipulated prices.

Mali: Thousands Still Live in Slavery in North

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
People continue to be enslaved in northern Mali, according to Malian human rights organisation Temedt, despite a widespread belief that slavery no longer exists in the country. Read more in the Hear our Voices on Iddar Ag Ogazide.

Nigeria: Global Biofuels Invests N87.5 Billion in Ethanol Project

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Global Biofuels Limited, the first biofuels refinery in Nigeria, endorsed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has committed the sum of N87.5billion to ethanol project in the country.

Mali: Children Enslaved At Young Ages

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Iddar Ag Ogazide, a black Tamasheq, was born in 1973 at Tinahamma near Ansongo in northern Mali, 1350km north of Bamako. His family have been owned by the Touareg Ag Baye family at Intakabarte for several generations. In March this

Nigeria: The High Cost of Diesel And Kerosene

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
For a nation that seemingly runs on generators, the importance and affordability of the needed fuel to power the generators can hardly be over emphasized. But for months now, the citizens-corporate and private - have practically been groaning under the

Nigeria: Senate Committee Probes $78 Million Transport Fund

14.07.2008 18:44    allafrica.com
Senate Committee on Aviation is working round the clock to get to the roots of the expenditure of about $78 million realised from the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) Account under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Nigeria: Benue Gets N100 Million Wimax Internet Backbone

14.07.2008 15:33    allafrica.com
To brace up to the challenges of information and communications technology in the 21st century, the Benue State government has set in motion modalities to install the WIMAX Internet backbone in the state at the cost of N100 million.

Nigeria: Tribunal Shuts Down 30 'Wonder Banks'

14.07.2008 15:33    allafrica.com
The Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) has shut down 30 finance companies popularly known as 'wonder banks' from operating as fund managers.

Nigeria: Pay Pension Before Retrenchment, Railway Workers Tell FG

14.07.2008 15:33    allafrica.com
Nigeria Railway Corpo- ration (NRC) workers yesterday asked the Federal Government to pay outstanding pension liability of over N5 billion before embarking on its planned retrenchment.

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