Our guest in studio today is Jim Dando, Director Sales, and Operations, NISSAN. Jim has been in the motor trade for four decades and with Nissan for the past two decades. He was formerly General Manager, Nissan Africa Regional office for 11 years. Before that, he was in Aftersales field operations for 8 years.
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel peace prize winner, died yesterday (Aug. 18) in Berne, Switzerland after a short illness. He was 80.
Nigerian schoolgirls won a Silicon Valley prize for an app that detects fake drugs. Five teenage Nigerian girls developed an app that allows anyone with a smartphone to detect and report fake drugs.
he head of Ethiopian Airlines wants African nations to own a stake in the carrier. As Africa’s largest air airline, the state-owned airline is looking to boost the continent’s fragmented airspace through increased connectivity and strategic partnerships. Chief executive Tewolde Gabremariam now says African countries should also co-own the airline with Ethiopia.
Sport is a unifying factor in Kenya, and the country’s runners are known all over the world for consistently breaking records. The story of Enda, the firm making the first Kenyan runners’ shoe.
Zimbabwe’s constitutional court to hear election results petition (Aug. 22). The opposition Movement for Democratic Change challenged the election of Emmerson Mnangagwa as president and is seeking fresh polls or the declaration of its leader Nelson Chamisa as the winner.