Foreign direct investment has always been a challenge and it is even more difficult with the economic downturn facing Europe and the slow recovery being experienced by the United States economy. But in Africa and especially Nigeria, free trade zones are being set up to bring in investment, boost the economy and increase the business and tourism potential of the country. And a number of Free Trade Zones, FTZ, have sprung up in the country since 1996. Across the country, about 23 Free Trade Zones ...
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Africa's Pulse reports that the Sahel region of West Africa is facing a severe food security situation. Less-than-average rainfall, poor distribution, and displaced families due to conflict have left ...
With the worsening security challenges in Nigeria, the second South South Economic Summit hosted by Delta State in April can be adjudged a success.
The security situation robbed the sum...
ECOWAS and Venezuela have agreed to take measures to operationalize their 2009 memorandum of Understanding (MOU) towards the elimination of malaria in West Africa.
Under the MOU, which was signed durin...
Ini Onuk, Lead Consultant/CEO of ThistlePraxis Consulting Limited, Lagos, has urged media practitioners to explore the opportunities inherent in social media for investigating and disseminating storie...
Nigeria's president is vowing that his government will reign in the threat from a radical Islamic sect that has waged an increasingly bloody sectarian fight in the country.
Boko Haram, ...
It is not always the case that an obvious answer to a nagging problem is perceived by many as one, until someone, perhaps out of a deed reflection over the matter, draws everyone else’s attention to t...