Nigeria's bourse is to list its first exchange traded fund (ETF) on Monday, a South African gold-backed fund that will broaden the exchange's range of products beyond equities and bonds, the stock exchange said on Friday.
People across the globe are increasingly concerned about unemployment according to a survey conducted by BBC World Service.
On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.
Gordhan said that the debt crisis in Europe is harming economies thousands of miles way.
Two pastors in Nigeria claimed they were raped by prostitutes when on a mission to a popular brothel.
Boko Haram, Nigeria's militant Islamic insurgency, is now an emerging threat to the United States, a new congressional report says.
Same-sex marriages and homosexual activities were officially banned by the senate in Nigeria on Tuesday, placing criminal penalties of up to 14 years in prison on same-sex relationships.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), a spokesman said on Wednesday, giving no reason.
Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday.
According to reports by the WORLD Health Organisation, there has been a four-fold increase in polio cases in Nigeria.
Half of the country’s population is Christian, although some of them incorporate the practice of Vodun (voodoo) in their rituals.
Standard Bank Group is now financing small and medium-sized (SME) enterprises, tapping into a lucrative segment that was previously ignored by mainstream lenders but is increasingly on the agenda for most African governments.
Nigeria said on Thursday it was fining airlines British Airways and Virgin Atlantic a total of $235 million, as an ongoing row between Britain and Africa's most populous nation over landing slots and ticket prices escalates.
Libya's National Transitional Council is furious that Niger offered amnesty to Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi Gadhafi.
South Africa's third-biggest listed clothes retailer, Mr Price, reported a 22 percent rise in first-half profit as above-inflation wage increases and decades-low interest rates lift consumer spending in Africa's biggest economy.
Bollore plans to invest 18 billion CFA francs in Abidjan port by 2013 to make it the region's key sea hub, the French logistics and transport group's Africa chief said.
Nigeria plans to change the base year for its gross domestic product (GDP) to 2008 from 1990, a move that could lead to a huge jump in the estimated size of Africa's second biggest economy, the national statistics chief said on Thursday.
A violent Islamist sect responsible for scores of killings in northeast Nigeria is increasingly linking up with global jihadist movements like al Qaeda, a military commander in the area told Reuters on Monday.
The report suggests that African people are increasingly shifting to mobile communications because landline service is unreliable and too expensive.
Human rights group urges Shell to pay $1 billion for the clean up of two oil spills that date back to 2008. Company says continuing sabotage undermines clean-up efforts.
Fire broke out on Wednesday on the Okordia/Rumuekpe oil pipeline in Nigeria and some production has been shut down, but the blaze has since been put out, a spokesman for operator Royal Dutch Shell said.
Nigeria's police said on Tuesday they had arrested suspected members of an Islamist sect behind coordinated attacks in the north of the country that killed at least 65 people late last week.
