South Africa considers privatisation to counter recession

South Africa’s finance minister laid out an ambitious 14-point programme on Thursday to wrench the economy out of recession that included the sale of non-core assets and partial privatisation of state-owned firms. The plans to stimulate growth in the continent’s most industrialised economy appear to represent an ideological shift by the ruling African National Congress, […]

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Fed Govt to set deadline for NNPC, refineries’ privatisation

The Federal Government has said it will set a time frame for the privatisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the refineries before the end of this year. As part of the deregulation of the downstream oil and gas sector, the Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Dr. Adeyemi Dipeolu, said […]

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