Archive For: The Crunch
05 Feb 2014 – ThisDayLive leads our news report for today with the news that the Nigerian Ministry of Communication Technology has announced the Open Data Development Initiative to help drive innovation, investment and economic growth by enabling access to government data. The Initiative will open up high value datasets ... Read More
05 Feb 2014 – Libya has been crowned 2014 Orange African Nations Champions after an exciting and challenging game with Ghana at Cape Town Stadium. Score line at the end of the game was 4-3 on penalties after the match had ended 0-0. This was a highly coincidental reversal of ... Read More
05 Feb 2014 – Coaches of some of the competing teams have shared their impressions of the tournament. Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi was quoted as saying “I think deep down that we’ve had a good CHAN. I’d rather take the positives away with me from South Africa.” Ghana’s Maxwell Konadu said” ... Read More
05 Feb 2014 – And Ventures Africa shares the interesting news that Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group plans to expand its business across the African region, especially in the automotive, technology and energy sectors. This information was disclosed at the just concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) by the Group’s Europe Chairman, ... Read More
3rd Feb 2014 – The Zambezian shares a picture of Africa in 50 years and boy is it beautiful! The picture, a vision of what Africa could be like in just 50 years, was created and shared by Dr NkosazanaDlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the AU Commission, at the AU Summit in ... Read More
3rd Feb 2014 – The African Union Summit has come to a close and this year, the AU heads of state launched “2014 Year of Agriculture and Food Security, Marking 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP).” It was also time to elect a ... Read More
3rd Feb 2014 – And good news for the Nigerian power sector as Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) and General Electric Company (GE) have signed a framework agreement to revamp the power and transportation sectors in the country. The framework agreement, was signed following a closed door meeting with ... Read More
04 Feb 2014 – And from TimesLive SA, amendments had been proposed to the national policy for determining school calendars for public schools in South Africa. This was the subject matter of a notice published by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga in the Government Gazette. The notice came after consultation ... Read More
This week started with reports of the discovery of a 29.6 carat blue diamond in a South African mine by Petra Diamonds. The diamond is one of the rarest and most coveted in the world, with a possible price tag of tens of millions of dollars,. Development Diaries reported to ... Read More
31st Jan 2014 – And more tech news, this time from South Africa, as TimesLive SA informs us that the South African mobile social network Mxit has announced the first phase of its expansion for the emerging market with the launch of Mxit in India and the release of Mxit 7 ... Read More
