Progress has been made in discussions between the Liberia Telecommunication Authority and the for GSM cellular phone companies in respect of the standardization and licensing of the latter.

Proposals by the GSM companies to credit their subscribers with N175 airtime as compensation for poor services from July is coming too late and too small, the Senate Committee on Communications has observed.

There was a lot of excitement as Warid Telecom launched its network and opened a customer care centre in Lira last Saturday.

It's quite disheartening looking at the colossal billions of shillings lost in inflated road construction costs in connivance between the Road Agency Formation Unit (Rafu), a government agency, and the contractors.

Nigeria has signed a loan of $65m with the African Development Bank for water and sanitation projects in Yobe and Osun states.

A strategic partnership agreement was this Thursday here signed between the National Fuel Society of Angola (Sonangol), the Portuguese Commercial Bank and the Atlantic Private Bank (BPA), foreseeing the acquisition of 49,9 percent, by the national oil company and BPA,

Anti-Economic Partnership Agreements (Epas) campaigning resurfaced last week, with Oxfam International reiterating its desire to see African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries analyzing Epa impacts before turning their interim Epas with the European Union (EU) into legally binding arrangements.

As I travelled through Nairobi, the Rift Valley and Western provinces late last month, the issue that troubled me most was the lack of attention to the road network and other transport facilities. Why has the Kenya government neglected the

The State will not take up additional shares in the Housing Finance rights issue announced yesterday, it has emerged.

To be a referee during some of the most heated moments in the country's scrappy telecommunications industry is not an easy feat.

As more and more cyber-cafes bow to the threat of fines from Microsoft over illegal use of their software, the question arises: who is the winner in the crackdown?

No sooner had the new ministers assumed their respective dockets than they read the riot act to land grabbers and errant road contractors.

The national carrier, Kenya Airways, is set to launch new routes in Africa and increase frequency on some routes this financial year as part of its expansion plans.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture invited tenders from millers and traders to import 17,383 metric tonnes of wheat flour for the year from Egypt and Mauritius. This is far less than the 52,149 metric tonnes recommended in the legal notice