Nigeria counts billions in lost revenue as electricity, major airports trade unions strike for higher wages
In this latest strike, workers shut down the national electricity grid and drove away operators at a key transmission station, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said, adding that other workers sent to restore power were blocked.
PM Modi plans land and labour reforms to transform India into a global manufacturing hub
India is the world’s fastest-growing major economy. But that includes both a booming tech sector and a struggling older economy that doesn’t provide enough jobs for everyone else, said Josh Felman, the former head of the International Monetary Fund’s office in India.
Why when junk-food manufacturers place adverts near schools or routes used by students, performance at school drops
It says further that manufacturers use carefully orchestrated flavours, textures and aromas to make them as appealing as possible – a stark contrast to whole foods whose taste and consistency are made by nature and designed to satiate hunger and address your nutritional cravings.
What you eat affects what you remember: Fast-food addiction vacuums memory, turns adult into junk
In the US, an estimated five million teens aged 12 to 17 – or 20 per cent of the overall age group – have experienced at least one episode of depression, with symptoms of a loss of interest in daily activities and struggling with sleep, energy and appetite.
Zambia’s former first lady and daughter friend arrested over properties worth over $2 million
Edgar Lungu was Zambia’s leader from 2015 to 2021, when he lost an election to current President Hakainde Hichilema, a longtime political rival. He has embarked on a political comeback
World Bank approves $1.2 billion budget support for Kenya to help create competitive labour market
The funding had been agreed amid an improved macroeconomic environment following government efforts to address liquidity pressures
Sri Lanka’s tea producers worried 70 per cent wage hike will turn over market to Kenya, India
The industry must start paying the salary increase from next month, Sri Lanka’s Labour Ministry said on Sunday, warning that plantation companies refusing to comply could be taken over by the government. Implementing the wage hike will cost plantation companies an additional 35 billion rupees, the association said.
$668m Nairobi Expressway run by state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp is a snapshot of how China engages with Africa
Daily average use in March was already 57,000 vehicles, exceeding a 2049 target of around 55,000 set by CRBC in a 2019 presentation on the project’s economic viability seen by Reuters.
Chinese creepers exploit lax Nigerian law enforcement and terrorism to illegally mine, export tonnesas of lithium
Nigeria has long neglected the solid minerals sector, which allows some communities like the northern-central town of Jos, which is tin-abundant, to depend on subsistence mining for their livelihood.
Zimbabwe fights citizenry resistance to world’s newest currency as demand for US dollar peaks
Senior officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the ruling ZANU-PF party embarked on a flurry of public rallies and meetings to encourage the sceptical population to now embrace the ZiG ahead of the US dollar, which is also legal tender in the southern African nation. Commercial jingles heralding the currency flooded the airwaves along with Caleb’s single.
