Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Muhammad Sada, has said that Nigeria would soon commence its first major gold mining of over 620, 000 ounces in Osun State.
Sada made this known yesterday in Abuja while launching the Field Procedures Manual for Geochemical Mapping of Nigeria.
He said so far, over 15 foreign companies have commenced [...]

The activities of a Serbian Company, Energo Nigeria Limited have reached about $2 billion, the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Nigeria Rifat Rondic has said.
Speaking in Abuja when he visited the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), the Ambassador said the company which has been in existence for 40 years has carried out about [...]

The newly-appointed head coach of the South African Senior Men’s National Team (Bafana Bafana) Pitso Mosimane is ready for the next World Cup with his Vision 2014. South Africa hosted 2010 World Cup, in no less than a month Coach Carlos Perreira, who was with Bafana Bafana throughout the World Cup, took a final bow. [...]

The East Africa Community (EAC) secretariat has promised to address infrastructural bottlenecks along the transport corridors to improve regional trade.
The announcement comes three weeks after the official commencement of the EAC common market agreement signed in Nairobi recently.
EAC Secretary General Juma Mwapachu said it was necessary to integrate all ports in the union to adequately [...]

The index which has expanded to Rwanda and Burundi this year ranks the latter at the top position with a corruption prevalence of 36.7% while Rwanda is the least corrupt country in the region with a prevalence of 6.6 %.
Kenya, at third position, has registered a slight improvement in the prevalence of corruption, from a [...]

Tanzania has become the 19th African country and the first from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to sign the African Union and NEPAD’s – Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Compact.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam, Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete declared that there would be no back-pedalling on Tanzania’s commitment to ensuring that [...]

African governments have been urged to incorporate climate information in planning to ensure that development projects are not devastated in the event that they are affected by the vagaries of climate.
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Director Mahboub Maalim has said that for a long time African countries have not embraced the need to [...]

Shell, Vitol and Helios have entered into exclusive negotiations for the potential joint acquisition by Vitol Group and Helios Investment Partners of equity in Shell’s downstream businesses in 19 countries in Africa.
Under the terms of the proposed deal, which would see the Shell brand and products remain in each country, Vitol one of the largest [...]

A Kenyan police officer was seriously injured on Tuesday in a cross-boarder attack blamed on the Somalli islamist group Al-Shabaab. The attack occured along the Kenya-Somali boarder at a place called Harehare, near Liboi Town.
Liboi is one of the many bparder towns that have been feeling the brunt of the group that has claimed links [...]

By Sanda Chongo Kabange
Results of an advanced clinical trial of an antiretroviral-based microbicide candidate have been announced at the on-going International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria.
The CAPRISA 004 trial, which tested the safety and effectiveness of 1% tenofovir gel among nearly 900 women at two sites in South Africa, found that using the gel before [...]