Agriculture is major opportunity for African Internet of things; security No. 1 challenge
Businessam StaffJune 1, 2017
Agriculture, Africa’s largest economic sector, is likely to be central to the growth of the Internet of Things on the continent.
Emerging stocks face new era as MSCI ponders $9 trillion markets
Businessam StaffJune 1, 2017
The stock markets of the world’s developing economies are about to undergo a kind of a revolution. As index provider MSCI Inc.
Nigeria nears self-sufficiency, as Dangote invests $1 billion in rice production
Businessam StaffMay 31, 2017
Dangote Group is making a five-year investment of at least $1 billion to grow and process rice in seven Nigerian states, bringing
Osinbajo urges Dangote, others to make Nigeria competitive, inaugurates NIPCAC
Businessam StaffMay 31, 2017
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday inaugurated the National Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council
Central bank to sell $100m at forward, spot forex auction
Businessam StaffMay 30, 2017
Nigeria’s central bank said on Tuesday it will sell $100 million at a special wholesale spot and forwards auction to improve
Top economists urge ‘strong carbon price’ in climate fight
Businessam StaffMay 29, 2017
Leading economists called Monday on the international community to price carbon at up to $100 (89 euros) a tonne by 2030, saying this
Increased spending fails to spike healthcare outcomes in Nigeria, Africa
Businessam StaffMay 29, 2017
*New public-private partnership models advocated… Despite increased spending on healthcare in the public and private sectors
World’s biggest economies sitting on a ‘pension time bomb’? WEF says funding gap will surpass global GDP
Businessam StaffMay 29, 2017
A report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned that by 2050 the combined pension savings gap of eight major economies could
Nigeria’s poor power supply linked to inadequate financial investment, consumer sabotage
Businessam StaffMay 29, 2017
Inadequate financial investment and poor consumer appreciation of the challenges in the power sector have been adduced as reasons for