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Kenya is building East Africa’s first coal-fired power plant, a move that’s been criticized as backwards, unnecessary, and harmful to the health of the country’s people and environment. Now, the $2 billion project run by Amu Power is also …
Continue readingIt is all but official: Nigeria is in a recession. The economy is expected to return a negative GDP growth rate for the second quarter of 2016 to make it two successive quarters of economic contraction. Data released by the …
Continue readingOne of the aims of entrepreneurship development is the creation of efficiency through increased competitiveness, as well as increasing access of businesses to continually widening markets. This is an achievement that is however, becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish as state …
Continue readingOn Thursday, July 14, 2016, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila’s bill to restrict employment of foreign nationals in the country passed its second reading. According to Gbajabiamila, it is a necessary step to curb unemployment in the country. The bill, if passed, …
Continue readingThe Nigeria Government has signed a Front-Runner Solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) worth 1.75 billion dollars with 14 companies to build 1.125 Megawatts(MW) capacity of renewable power in the country. Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, who …
Continue readingBy November, Kenya will begin repatriation of refugees to Somalia, as it hopes to defeat terrorism and tighten security. Kenya refused all calls not to close down the refugee settlements after it gave way to the fear that the camps
The Nigerian government has cancelled its plan to build a massive film village in the northern state of Kano, following social media outcry and opposition from Muslim clerics.
More than three billion naira ($10m; £7.6m) was budgeted for the project …
Continue readingECONOMISTS and many policy makers think about how things are done, but they do not think much about where things are done. Where economic activity is concentrated in a country can be the difference between poverty and prosperity – for …
Continue readingIf you were a lover of reggae music in the 1970s, you would certainly know “Time Hard”, a hit song by The Pioneers, the Jamaican three-man band. “Everyday,” they sang, sonorously, “things are getting worse.” That song was released in …
Continue readingFour months into 2016 Ghana elections, IMANI provides a comprehensive and detailed policy-focused report on the state of affairs in the past four years and suggest how identified gaps should be filled in the next four years.
The election year …
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