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African Envoys Chart Path for Continent's Economies

President, African Business Round Table and Chairman, NEPAD Business Group Dr. Bamanga Tukur along with African ambassadors on Tuesday stressed the need to plough back into the continent's economies the gains of the on-going debt relief...
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Conoil Posts N1.73b Dividend  

Conoil Plc is living up to its promise of making Christmas and New Year real good for its numerous shareholders...
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Globacom Picks Top Industry Awards...
Second National Operator, Globacom, has won the two topmost awards at stake at the 2006 Nigerian Information Telecommunications Technology Awards ceremony held in Lagos on Friday...


996 ATMs deployed in Nigeria...
In spite of the growing enthusiasm of banks to promote a cashless society in Nigeria, only 996 automated teller machines have so far, been deplored by the participating banks as at October 2006...


Nigeria Set To Access China’s $10bn Trade...
The Director, Centre for Trade Practitioners, Prince Lekan Fadina, said the country should be prepared to benefit from over 10 billion dollars for development of bilateral trade with China being offered to 11 African countries...


Shell, Ijaw Communities Settle Rift...
Shell plans to resume next week its long abandoned operations in the Warri area, the spin off of a peace meeting it had at the weekend...


FG To Sell Ayip-Eku Oil Palm Company...
In furtherance of Federal Government’s privatisation programme, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), has invited prospective Core Group and Strategic investors to express interest in the acquisition of 60 per cent shares and management control...


NSE Boss Urges Dominion Trust to Package SMEs for Listing...
The President of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oba Otudeko, has challenged Dominion Trust Limited to facilitate the packaging of Small Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to enable them qualify for listing on the Exchange...


Columnist Weekly
Philip Emeagwali

How Do
We Reverse
the Brain Drain?

Follow the thoughts of one of Africa’s greatest brains who was voted history's greatest scientist (#1) of African descent — and the 35th greatest African of all time — in a survey for the September 2004 issue of the London-based New African magazine. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing and in 2000 was extolled by Bill Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”

How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
- By Philip Emeagwali

For 10 million African-born emigrants, the word “home” is synonymous with the United States, Britain or other country outside of Africa. Personally, I have lived continuously in the United States for the past 30 years. My last visit to Africa was 17 years ago...
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PHCN & Online Electricity Payment System
By Chyke

This is a great achievement for the country. My only concern here is the motivation for this implementation...
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