NIGERIA is believed to have lost a total of $360m in economic revenue from the suspension of the social media platform Twitter over the 100 days that embargo has been in place according to a group of social enterprises.
In June this year, the Nigerian government banned the use of Twitter across the country after the platform...
GUINEA has been suspended from the African Union (AU) following the recent military coup in the country that resulted in Lt Col Mamady Doumbouya seizing power and arresting President Alpha Conde.
In what is a break from a commitment by African countries to allow democracy to thrive, the Guinean military toppled the...
NIGERIA'S federal government is confident that it will soon be able to lift its ban on social media platform Twitter as the company has agreed to seven of the 10 demands it made including opening an office in Nigeria.
In June this year, the Nigerian government banned the use of Twitter across the country after the platform...
NIGERIA has opened 1 1.5km bridge linking Etung Local Government Area in Cross River State with neighbouring Cameroon as part of a programme to enhance trade and boost commerce between the two countries.
Commissioned by works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola, the road which starts in the town of Ekot-Mfum, is double...
NIGERIA has been advised by the World Bank to cash in on its growing tobacco and alcohol markets by generating as much as N600bn ($1.45bn) a year by increasing the excise duties on both products as recommended in a National Development Update report.
Faced with dwindling revenue as a result of the reduction in the purchase...
AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) officials have promised that the $430m Enugu to Bamenda highway linking Nigeria and Cameroon by road will be completed later this year opening up the economies of both countries to each other.
Despite being neighbours, transportation links between Nigeria and Cameroon are very poor, inhibiting...
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have offered to come to Gambia's assistance by helping the country print its currency the dalasi as part of cooperative arrangements among members of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas).
One of West Africa's smallest countries with a population of just 2.4m, Gambia...
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Nigeria is willing to offer all G7 member states observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive investment in West Africa with an annual minimum target of $500bn
Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the big automobile manufacturers like...
NIGERIA'S neighbours within the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) are planning to buy up the country's unutilised power that is generated but not distributed due to bottlenecks in the transmission network.
Reeling from the effects of a crisis in its power sector, Nigeria currently generates about 7,000MW of...
FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmed Gumi have recommended the creation of special courts to try bandits and kidnappers promptly following their recent meeting in Abeokuta to discuss insecurity.
With Nigeria teetering on the verge of a total breakdown of law and order, Chief Obasanjo and...
