Nigeria’s private sector recorded its strongest growth in nine months in May, driven by a sharp increase in customer demand and new product launches, according to the latest Stanbic IBTC Bank Purchasing... Read more »
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Experts warn Kenya’s record Sh4.8 trillion 2026/27 budget faces execution risks. [File,Standard]
As Kenya moves to implement its record Sh4.8 trillion budget for the 2026/27 financial year, project... Read more »
While Nigeria struggles with erratic electricity supply, businesses are quietly paying a heavy price running on generators that drain profits and deepen economic inefficiencies. Nigeria’s chronic power shortage is imposing a significant... Read more »
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Jyoti Ball, Amazon Web Services general manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, speaks on the deployment of cloud infrastructure supporting Kenya’s electronic medical records system.
Thousands of Kenyan health facilities... Read more »
One afternoon in February 2026, I went to Ikeja GRA, a highbrow neighbourhood in Lagos, to talk to a new crop of executives at Cowrywise, the wealth management fintech that manages money... Read more »
Kenya continues to grapple with the burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) even as it races against time to meet the World Health Organization’s 2030 elimination target. The diseases targeted for elimination... Read more »
Education is becoming expensive in Nigeria, both economically and in terms of scarcity. Last month, JAMB, the body responsible for conducting the Unified Tertiary Examinations into higher institutions, reduced the cut-off marks... Read more »
The Department of State, in close coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is continuing to mount a rapid and comprehensive response to the Ebola outbreak in the... Read more »
My name is Chinedu Wisdom, and if you had told the boy who used to read under a lamp in Lagos that one day he’d be called a graduate leader in Canada,... Read more »
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ODM Linda Mwananchi faction leaders from R-L, Edwin Sifuna, James Orengo, Babu Owino and Godfrey Osotsi- in black on May 31, 2026. [John Muia, Standard]
Opposition leaders have... Read more »