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Elections In Africa: Top 5 Predictions For 2014

The political environment in a country is key to economic growth and development. Generally, if a country must thrive, political stability is a pertinent ingredient. The situation is the same.

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Meet Kase Lawal: Nigerian-Born Oil Baron Who Controls 6 Oil Blocs In Kenya

Kase Lawal, an Ibadan- born businessman, who has accomplished what many United States of America (USA) citizens can only fantasise. A typical Nigerian achiever, who can easily be described as.

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10 Features Of Nigeria’s Richest Individuals

Nigeria is known to house one of the largest pools of wealthy individuals in Africa, amassing fortunes in excess of a million dollars. These fortunes are sourced from the usual suspects including.

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Cash confusion: The country where shoppers can pay with eight different currencies

Zimbabwe’s multi-currency confusion and hyper-inflation, Zimbabwe must be the only place in the world to have eight currencies as legal tender – none of them its own. For the last.

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Viewpoints on Nigeria at 100: Is A time to celebrate?

SOURCE: BBC AFRICA Nigeria is marking a century of its existence following the amalgamation of the mainly Muslim north and Christian and animist south under British colonial rule in 1914..

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Quotes From Top African Entrepreneurs On Business, Passion And Life

Power and drive are two things business leaders seem to have in common. Across the globe, entrepreneurs and business leaders are marked by their enviable managerial skills and intellectual capacity..

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Malawians push for speedy Cashgate trials

The largest financial scandal to hit Malawi has rocked domestic and international confidence. Blantyre, Malawi – With more than $250m siphoned off from government coffers, citizens here want officials to.

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Global Investors Turn Focus To Kenya Ahead Of $2bn Eurobond Sale

Global investors are showing an increased interest in Kenya, with the expected issuing of Sh172 billion ($2 billion) Eurobond attracting interest from leading global investment firms. Already, a minimum of.

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Africa Needs ‘Marshall Plan’ To Tackle Employment Challenge – Tony Elumelu

Africapitalism proponent and chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited, Tony Elumelu, has said that Africa must do more to tackle the threat of unemployment, which risks derailing the continent’s much-touted economic.

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African Leadership Magazine Hosts Successful Africa-Middle East Energy Summit In Abu-Dhabi

Dateline Sheraton Hotel Abu Dhabi, UAE, Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 23:15 Hours. African Leadership Magazine, the leading organization engaged in building bridges of alliances and interactions between Africa and the.

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