Africa Business

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Linda Mesa Wambani will, from tomorrow, be the new Safaricom Company Secretary following the resignation of Kathryne Maundu.

[Nile Post] SchoolPay, a digital school management and payments platform, is a brainchild of Service Cops, a Ugandan technology company with a presence in the Great African Lakes region.

[allAfrica] Climate change and vaccine hesitancy pose serious threats to public health

[allAfrica] Harare -- South African consumers will have to put up with higher chicken meat and egg prices as the industry confronts its worst highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemic to date, according to economists and industry insiders.

[Daily Trust] Collaboration, knowledge sharing and enlightenment will help banks to checkmate fraudulent activities in the banking sector.

[Leadership] The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has identified stability as one of the primes in the economic agenda of the Tinubu administration for the year 2024.

[Premium Times] The government said it granted tax incentives to support businesses and enhance business and economic performance in the country.

[Leadership] Deputy spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Hon Philip Agbese, said fuel subsidy constitutes 50 percent of Nigeria's problems and its removal would usher the country into her glorious era.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- The Federal Government yesterday asked the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, to shelve their planned nationwide indefinite strike from October 3, saying going ahead with the proposed industrial action will amount to a gross violation of a subsisting court injunction.

[Vanguard] The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offenses Commission, ICPC has auctioned two 20 footer containers of samples of items seized from officials of government agencies undertaking physical examination at the Tin-can Island Port.

[Vanguard] Lagos -- As the gridlock on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway worsened, yesterday, the Lagos State government, representatives of transporter unions, truckers and port operators, yesterday, vowed to implement a new order to ensure the free flow of traffic on the axis and port access roads.

[Daily Trust] The Representative and Head of Mission of the Taipei Trade Office in Nigeria, Mr Andy Liu, has expressed his country's willingness to support Nigeria to grow its non-oil sector to catalyse economic development.

[Daily Trust] The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, has stated that lack of accountability in the use of taxes in Nigeria is one of the major issues preventing Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) from paying taxes to the government.

[Premium Times] Some of the civil servants, who were heard chanting "Umahi Must Go," accused the minister of being insensitive to the hardship they face due to the removal of the fuel subsidy.

[Nile Post] President Museveni has directed the Ministry of Finance to issue a statutory instrument in two weeks on interest paid by borrowers to moneylenders in the country.

[AIM] Maputo -- The French oil and gas company, TotalEnergies, has reiterated its commitment to work in Mozambique, taking into account that over the last 15 years the government has created effective regulations that are attractive to private investment.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Carlos Zacarias, has announced that the country expects to produce, as of 2024, about 30,000 tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG - cooking gas) per year.

[This Day] As the clock ticks towards October 3, the date Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have scheduled to commence a nationwide indefinite strike, the federal government appears to be ramping up efforts to appease the trade union centres and try to prevent them from embarking on the industrial action.

[Nile Post] The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Uganda, the operator of the Kingfisher oil field in the Albertine region, has flagged off Ugandan students to China to further their studies in oil and gas .

[Premium Times] Among the most prevalent mobile threats that were detected in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region are adware and mobile banking threats.

[Daily Maverick] The EFF has called for a 'shutdown' in the Western Cape on Monday, 2 October, over a number of issues, including 'unjust taxi impoundments'. But, unlike the August taxi strike, the 'shutdown' isn't being organised by the industry itself.

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[GroundUp] Nelson Mandela Bay councillor says many homes were plunged into dark after an explosion at the Mabandla substation

[DW] The new pipeline is expected to receive 6.5 million litres of fuel from the Tanzania-Zambia Mafuta pipeline, built 54 years ago. Analysts say the cost of fuel will reduce when the new pipeline becomes operational.

[Premium Times] The AGF, Lateef Fagbemi, wrote the unions through their lawyer, Femi Falana, warning them to desist from their planned strike over the fuel subsidy removal.

[The Conversation Africa] China has big ambitions in Africa. Between 2000 and 2020, the economic superpower loaned African governments US$159 billion to build railroads, highways, stadiums and bridges.

[allAfrica] Harare -- Uganda is in the closing stages of talks with Chinese bankers to help fund a contentious pipeline project after some Western partners withdrew, a top official said on Wednesday, the East African reports.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi Government says it needs K226 billion to feed 4.4 million people facing acute hunger.

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[Scrolla] Eskom has strained its coal-fired power facilities, causing four out of its 15 plants to violate government emission standards, according to a Reuters report confirmed by Eskom insiders.