The Sefwi-Wiawso branch of the Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU), yesterday morning, embarked on a massive demonstration exercise, to kick against the introduction of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) buses to ply the area.

THE popular B2 hitch-hiking spot outside Swakopmund on the road to Windhoek has been closed for safety reasons.

A CONTROVERSIAL blot on the landscape near Sossusvlei are two abandoned buildings just off the Namib-Naukluft and Sesriem road with bulldozer tracks marring the otherwise pristine area.

The Gautrain will receive the prestigious International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Gold Quill Merit Award in New York City next month.

The Gautrain project has beat 250 top global infrastructure projects and qualified as a semi-finalist in the prestigious international 2008 Bently Empowered Award programme.

THE discovery of a treasure-laden shipwreck, estimated to be around 500 years old, in Namdeb's Mining Area 1 near Oranjemund early last month is only the first chapter in what could turn into a long slog of archaeological detective work

An Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 with 91 passengers onboard and bound for London's Gatwick airport, aborted take-off on Thursday in Malawi when two birds were sucked into the engines.

THE Regional Minister, Mr. Anthony Evans Amoah, has said that a total of 89 kilometres of roads,leading to cocoa communities in the Sehwi-Juaboso District of the region, would be constructed, and tarred by the close of this year.

The traffic division of the Liberia National Police (LNP) has called on the public to cooperate with officers in enforcing and implementing traffic rules and regulation.

ExxonMobil said yesterday that it has returned its crude oil output in the country to normal levels.

ONE of the good things about a highly diversified entity is the ability to make money - even in adverse market conditions.

Kosmos Energy says its oil field at West Cape Three Points is the largest discovery in deep water West Africa.

The fuel industry seems immune to competition at the continual expense of the motorist and transport industry.

There are 227 filling stations in Mozambique - but 43 per cent of them are concentrated in Maputo City, according to the Deputy Minister of Energy, Jaime Himade.

The City of Cape Town plans to spend R2-million upgrading its statistical metering system to determine its exact energy savings.

Representatives of the US oil company Apex Petroleum Engineering on Tuesday in Ottawa (Canada) met with the Angolan ambassador to that country, Miguel Nzau Puna, to whom they manifested their interest in working in the Angolan crude market.

Recent power cuts in electricity might be a source of embarrassment and bad business for the business community in various sectors, but electric equipment suppliers are selling the much needed generators like hell, The Daily Monitor has learnt.

Botswana last week banned the export of bulk fuel to Zimbabwe, in a move seen as welcome regional pressure on Mugabe's regime, to respect the will of the people.

Only in extreme and emergency cases would there be load-shedding in the cold winter months, says Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin.

THE Niger Delta Peace Parley jointly organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) ended yesterday in Port Harcourt with a call on the National Assembly to review laws regulating the oil/gas sector as