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President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, applauded the full democratization of West Africa as all 15 member states of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, are now governed by elected leaders. Speaking in his capacity as Chairman of ECOWAS, while opening the first session of the Third Legislature of the Community Parliament of ECOWAS, in Abuja, Jonathan said the region ...

Sounds of rejoicing filled the air at The Redeemed Christian Church of God’s ,RCCG, National Convention on Thursday when a woman who had been barren for 20 years announced that she had given birth to triplets. Pastor Oladele, the father of the triplets said they were delivered in June 2011 after the General Overseer of the Church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye ...

The Ghanaian government has secured $800 million Chinese loan to be used for the development of gas infrastructure in the country, the deputy minister for finance and economic planning said Friday, months after the country became Africa’s newest major oil producer. “An agreement has been reached and we have secured $800 million (560 million euros) from the Chinese Development Bank ...

The President of African Business Roundtable, ABR, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has said entrepreneurial studies should be introduced into the curriculum of schools right from primary to the tertiary institutions. He said this at a book presentation titled “the entrepreneurial revolution: A solution for poverty eradication,” written by Peter Osalor, the ABR President said that by such introduction, every Nigerian youth ...

Mozambique’s Energy Minister, Salvador Namburete, on Wednesday announced that at least 2.1 million Mozambicans are now using electricity generated from renewable energy sources across the country. These include solar panels, wind turbines, small and medium-size dams and biomass (from sugar cane bagasse and Jatropha seedcake) under the country’s strategy for renewable energy recently approved by the Mozambican Government. The Minister ...