Zimbabwe: NetOne Castigates Competitors As Scramble for Customers Reaches New Peak
THE competition for mobile phone customers thickened last week with the country’s pioneer service provider, NetOne, castigating its competitors whom it accused of flooding the market with lines without developing their networks first.
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Zimbabwe: Energy Crisis Threatens Economic Recovery
Industry and Commerce Minister, Welshman Ncube says an immediate economic turnaround will be difficult before the crippling electricity shortages are addressed. Zimbabwe’s electricity woes worsened last month after most generators at the Hwange thermal power station were decommissioned.
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Zimbabwe: Total Under Probe
THE Competition and Tariff Commission is investigating allegations that Total Zimbabwe, a French registered oil company, is refusing to sell some of its assets to local businesspeople. The commission last Friday conducted hearings into Total’s compliance with its directive that it should dispose of excess assets.
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Zimbabwe: ZBC Suspends Gweje
RADIO Zimbabwe presenter Godfrey Gweje has been suspended from the station for making “politically subversive” statements. The presenter is said to have made negative comments about the paltry civil servants allowances which did not go down well with authorities at the station.
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Uganda: FDC Party Buys Two Radio Stations
The Forum for Democratic Change has announced that it has bought two existing radio stations following a government decision to deny the party a licence to set up its own. The decision to buy the radio stations was taken by FDC National Executive Committee, the highest decision-making organ of the [...]
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Nigeria: Traders Disagree With Govt Over ‘Inciting’ Broadcast
The Kantin Kwari Market Traders Association has dismissed government’s claim that Freedom Radio incited the traders against the government, saying the radio station only helped in mobilising people and corporate bodies to put out the fire.
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Nigeria: N150 Million Lost to Bauchi Market Fire
Over 300 shops at ‘kasuwar Kofa’ market along Railway road in Bauchi State were gutted by fire Saturday. The interim chairman of the market, Abdulkadir Yakubu, told the state Deputy Governor Babayo Garba Gamawa who visited the market to sympathize with the traders that they lost goods worth about N150 [...]
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Nigeria/Niger: We are Still in Shock - Ogunjobi, Iorfa
Executive Committee members of the Nigeria Football Federation have described the sudden demise of a former colleague on the board of the sport federation, Alhaji Alili Galadima as a rude shock which they are yet to over come.
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Nigeria: Sharks, Lobi for Wafu Cup
Garden City outfit, Sharks FC and Lobi Stars FC of Makurdi will fly Nigeria’s flag in this year’s WAFU Inter-Club competition for the Eyadema Cup, the Nigeria Football Federation said at the weekend.
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Nigeria: FG Assesses Projects Execution in North East
A team of evaluators from the Budget Office of the Federal Ministry of Finance are currently on the fourth quarter 2009 budget performance assessment across the North East to discharge its fiscal responsibility function and fulfill its statutory role of monitoring budget implementation. The exercise is part of the Budget [...]
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