Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja inaugurated the multi-channel project of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The NTA-Star Network and the NTA Multi-Channels project is a collaborative effort between NTA and a Chinese company, China’s Star Telecommunications Group. Jonathan congratulated the China’s Star Telecommunications for its clear demonstration of faith in the Nigerian [...]

The World Bank is to establish six ICT centers in each of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria at the cost of N2.4 million dollars, Dr Abimbola Adubi, the Task Team Leader, has said. Adubi, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja, said the centers would [...]

Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria Shareef Nageeb has said that the volume of trade between Nigeria and Egypt in 2009 was more than US $116 million. He made the statement at Egypt’s National Day celebration in Abuja, adding that there are efforts to raise the volume to the level of its potential by promoting the Nigerian [...]

Malawi’s president Bingu wa Mutharika is set to hand leadership to his younger brother, Peter, after his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) nominated him for the hot seat, another of arbitrary decision the party – which has never had a convention since its formation in 2005 – likes to make. This confirms rumours that have been [...]

President Mwai Kibaki on Friday declared August 4, the referendum date, a public holiday to allow Kenyans to fully take part at the referendum on the draft law. Government spokesman, Alfred Mutua told reporters in Nairobi that “it is important that all Kenyans come out and vote for this historic moment that will define the [...]

In a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal of Kenya on Friday in Nairobi declared unconstitutional the application of a mandatory death sentence on all prisoners convicted of murder. In their unanimous judgment, the Court of Appeal in a historical judgment ruled that the automatic nature of the death penalty in Kenya for murder violates [...]

Du 28 au 30 juillet 2010, à la suite des experts de l’ Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA), les ministres de la justice et des finances de cette organisation se réunissent dans la capitale togolaise. Ils viennent des 16 pays que compte cette structure. Les ministres auront d’une part à [...]

Kenya must change its foreign policy if it is to benefit from international trade. Ministry of foreign affairs permanent secretary Thuita Mwangi says Kenya must put in place an international business strategy that will encourage foreign investments as well as make it easy for local investors to sell their products. There has been concern that [...]

« La jeunesse africaine face au défi du développement de nos pays pauvres », c’est le thème qui réunit les jeunes étudiants de l’Université de Lomé et les responsables de l’Organisation Non Gouvernementale Cime Service Informatique et Communication (ONG « CSI-COM ») au cours d’un séminaire de formation qui se déroule au village du Bénin [...]

L’hôtel Eda-Oba de Lomé abrite du 28 au 30 juillet 2010 la première réunion du Conseil des Ministres de l’Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA) dont le Togo assume la présidence depuis le 1er janvier 2010 conformément au Traité de Port-Louis. Des experts venus des 16 Etats membres de l’OHADA prennent [...]