ACCRA – ALCATEL-Lucent, the French global telecommunications equipment company, has appointed Ramy Hashem, as Country Senior Officer and Managing Director for Ghana. Alpin Verlet, Head of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in the West and Central Africa region, confirmed the appointment. “Ghana is playing an important role in Alcatel-Lucent’s business development in Africa. […]

JOHANNESBURG – SYSTEMS Applications Products (SAP), the software firm, and Acumen, a non-profit global venture fund, have announced a strategic investment in a programme for social entrepreneurs in East Africa. The programme, is in line with the SAP Skills for Africa initiative designed to help the companies grow and scale. Chosen […]

from OKORO CHINEDU in Lagos, Nigeria LAGOS – MOBOfree.com, the leading African social marketplace, announced that it had experienced an increase of more than 44 percent in the number of registered users in Nigeria over the past 12 months. Officials said this resulted in a more than 1 000 percent increase […]