Counting the gains of re-modelling Nigeria airports
Airports across Nigeria have in recent time become centres of construction works day and night as part of the federal government’s effort to turn the hitherto moribund facilities into viable projects, Suleiman Idris chronicles the works so far carried out on the airports. The Federal Government, through the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria More...
Proffering solutions for energy and infrastructure deficit in Africa
By Etuka Sunday The continent of Africa is one that has a tremendous economic growth, investment and business opportunities. But inspite of these opportunities, less efforts are directed towards energy and infrastructural More...
Nigeria faces long, bumpy road to making the lights work
In an unwanted daily routine lasting 17 years, Phillip Cleatus sits in the dark doorway of his shoe-making shop in Nigeria’s northern city of Kaduna, waiting for the lights to come back on. President Goodluck More...
BP’s legal gamble may trim spill bill by billions
BP Plc’s attempt to get a U.S. federal court to pin at least a sizeable amount of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster on other companies may have saved it billions of dollars. After failing to settle More...
Deepening transformation at port authority
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is a Federal Government agency that governs and operates the ports of Nigeria. The major ports controlled by the NPA include: the Lagos Port Complex and Tin Can Island Port in More...
Militant uprising not yet likely in Nigeria’s oil delta
By Joe Brock Despite a deadly attack on police and emailed threats from a militant group, Niger Delta militants are unlikely to resurrect the campaign of violence that once hobbled Africa’s biggest energy More...
Abuja City Mall to create over 1,000 jobs, host 300,000 shoppers monthly – Director
Amanda Jean-Baptiste is Director, Real Estate at Actis, a pan-emerging market private equity firm that constructed the Palms and Ikeja City Mall in Lagos. In this interview with Suleiman Idris via email from More...
Adapt to Nigeria’s changing business environment
Nigeria is changing rapidly. The size of the economy may expand 40-60% overnight, new online sales channels are booming, and the security situation is deteriorating, writes Anna Rosenberg, a senior analyst for sub-Saharan More...
JEDC and the challenge of insecurity, power reforms
Like other Nigerians, residents of Plateau, Gombe, Benue and Bauchi crave for stable power supply. The four states are served by the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), one of the eight electricity distribution More...
Investment challenges facing Africa’s mining industry
Fifty-three years ago this week, the then UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan delivered his famous “wind of change” speech in Cape Town. On 3 February 1960, he spoke of the political change that was blowing More...
