House of Plastic Bottles
Nov 06, 2011
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The idea undoubtedly seemed strange at first: take the plastic water bottles that litter Nigeria’s roads, canals and gutters and allow people to live inside them.
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Globacom Taking on Nigeria’s Internet Problems
Jul 11, 2011
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Globacom Nigeria, the country’s second national carrier is set to take competition in bandwidth services to a new level as it plans to offer cheaper prices to internet service providers in Nigeria.
You Know You’re African When…
Jun 12, 2011
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If you are suffering an identity crisis and aren’t sure how African you might be, here are 10 things that are certainly sure to remind you. These are in no particular rank order.
HP Uses Cell Technology To Fight Malaria
Jun 06, 2011
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A new program from HP is equipping African health workers with cell phones so that information about outbreaks can be collected and analyzed as fast as possible.
SAP Launches New Software to the African Market
Jun 05, 2011
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SAP Africa has launched the revolutionary SAP In-Memory Appliance, and the new 4.0 releases of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software for the first time in Africa. The launch comes in response to the huge volumes of data companies today have to access, analyse and base their business decisions on. These new solutions bring speed, allow more people access to data and make BI and EIM easier to use while ensuring a trusted quality of business intelligence information.
Walmart: All Eyes on Africa
Jun 04, 2011
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The victorious Walmart bid to buy 51% of local retailer Massmart could boost South Africa’s profile as a trading launch pad into the African continent. But experts warned this week that government’s handling of the affair might result in investors leapfrogging South Africa altogether, going directly to fast-growing continental counterparts.
Africa Emerges as Leading Career Destination
May 11, 2011
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With the global competitive landscape changing dramatically, Africa is now emerging as a leading employment centre location. Many firms operating across Africa are recruiting aggressively and the African job market in 2011 is looking robust with a significant increase in the number of jobs compared with the same time last year.
Nexus Africa Top 10
May 05, 2011
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Every year Forbes publishes a list of the world’s largest publicly traded companies and it always includes a variety of African companies. We’ve gone through the list to determine the Top 10 companies from the African continent.
Fighting Corruption Via Crowdsourcing: Introducing Bribespot
May 04, 2011
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Corruption has become an endemic and systemic problem in a lot of countries around the world. But no where is this more prevalent than in Africa. Governments that have come and gone have al promised to tackle corruption head on and drive it out of the land but there are very few success stories.