10+ hour, 1+ min ago   (769+ words) Bamanga Tukur ran the Nigerian Ports Authority from 1975 to 1982 and registered a shipping agency while in office. He died on Saturday at 90. Bamanga Tukur died on Saturday at the age of 90, three days short of his 91st birthday. His son Awwal…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (907+ words) A Lagos court has extended an order barring Nigeria's petroleum regulator from Dangote's refinery, four days before its share offer opens. A Federal High Court in Lagos has extended an order barring Nigeria's petroleum regulator from entering, sealing or otherwise…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (691+ words) Bridge Bank lists in Abidjan on Sept. 24 after Yerim Sow's holding company sold a fifth of the Ivorian lender in an oversubscribed offer. Bridge Bank Group Côte d'Ivoire will begin trading on West Africa's regional stock exchange on Sept. 24, completing…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (988+ words) Botswana's opposition says a schools deal tied to Zunaid Moti could cost taxpayers P20 billion, and wants a parliamentary panel to investigate. Botswana's main opposition party has accused the government of preparing to commit the country to more than 20 billion pula,…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (352+ words) Joseph Siaw Agyepong turned his mother's printing shop into a 76-company, 29-country empire on one idea: governments always pay to have their rubbish removed. But in Nairobi and Mombasa, two of his biggest contracts are now being challenged in court....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (333+ words) In one of Africa's smallest economies, Muhammed Jah turned $16,000 — a student stipend and an uncle's loan — into The Gambia's largest conglomerate: its first internet provider, first 3G network, a bank and its first data centre. A national champion built from almost…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (544+ words) Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye, Rwanda's former infrastructure minister, joins Raffles Family Office to lead its push along the Africa-Asia corridor. Raffles Family Office, a Hong Kong-based firm that manages money for wealthy families across Asia, has hired Jean de Dieu…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (608+ words) An investigation says FAMFA Oil kept three Bombardier jets worth close to $200 million in Nigeria for over a decade on faulty import papers. FAMFA Oil, the company that made Folorunsho Alakija Africa's richest woman, faces a federal demand for 8.85 billion…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (479+ words) Chris Rokos paid £330m in UK tax last year, more than almost anyone. He is moving to Greece, where wealthy foreigners pay a flat €100,000 on all overseas income. Egypt's Nassef Sawiris made the same calculation two years earlier. Chris Rokos, the…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1727+ words) Lebashe holds 8.5 million Capitec shares worth R39.6 billion, pledged to two banks as security for the loans that bought them. Lebashe Investment Group told a South African court in 2022 that it held approximately 8.5 million shares in Capitec Bank Holdings, the Johannesburg-listed…...