Insurance Industry Courtesy Visit to FG

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets, is partnering...

  (L-R) Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u, Executive Director, African Economic Research...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has restrained...

Exhibitors at the recently concluded Fidelity Nigeria International Trade...

Africa must digitise its economies, broaden its tax base, prevent further...

Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers, once again, successfully hosted the...

When apartheid ended in 1994, the ANC promised to make black South Africans richer (Black Economic Empowerment). The lot of poorer blacks, however, has not improved much. Many are frozen out of the workplace altogether. The unemployment rate among blacks is 28.5%, compared with 5.6% for whites. If those who want work but have given up looking for it are included, the jobless rate is a whopping 41.6% for blacks compared with 7.5% for whites. The Economist, April 27, 2013.

Carl Wright, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum...