Massive advertising is not the best way to communicate on Internet. Such is the belief of internet users who resort to ad-blocking software. Among them are some professional of marketing and advertising. Seeking out for those, the Boondoggle agency just launched a recruitment campaign on several websites of marketing and communication. These Ads are only seen by those using ad blocking software,...

Next year, 4G will be a reality in Ivory Coast. The good news was released by Ivorian minister for posts, communication and information technologies, Bruno Nabagne Koné on December 1, 2015 during the commissioning by Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan of “Backbone Est” project for optic fiber network which connects Grand-Bassam to Bouna. The reasons behind the launching of 4G as stated by...

The French Justice issued a first verdict in the case opposing Ivorian diplomat Youssoufou Bamba (picture) to French magazine ‘’Jeune Afrique’’ which is accused of defamation. The complainant won the case. Youssoufou Bamba asked the court to sentence Marwan Ben Yahmed, the weekly’s publishing director, to pay him the amount of X euros for damages to his person and honor. The...

Following rumors that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, might replace the past petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, on Wednesday was named the new president of OPEC.   Kachilwu while revealing his plans for OPEC, vowed to do his best to suspend Iran’s planned oversupply of crude oil, to regulate...

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday announced that it plans to privatize the country’s petroleum products pipeline chain. Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu (photo), the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, declared this while visiting the petroleum products depots in Apapa, Lagos. He noted that the move is part of measures put in place in reducing the problem of oil theft and constant...

Marathon Oil on Wednesday announced that it is prepared for the arrival of its new Alba B3 compression platform, the, sailing from Netherland to be deployed at the Alba offshore field in Equatorial Guinea. Once deployed, the 5,800-tonne topside, is to be interlocked with the 91-meter tall jacket which weighs 2.600 tonnes. The job of the platform is to compress gas from the Alba field. Through a...

EPI Group’s Joint Venture Partner in Ghana, EPI Sonar Tusk, has entered into a 2-year contract to support Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)’s first seismic exploration in 40 years in the Voltaian Basin. The contract which is aimed at acquiring a regional 2D seismic programme within the 104,000 km² basin, which covers approximately 40 per cent of Ghana’s land mass. It is a...

African Petroleum, through its subsidiary European Hydrocarbons Limited (EHL) has entered into the first extension period on the SL-03 licence, offshore Sierra Leone which will expire on April 23, 2017. According to the company, the first exploration period on the licence ended on April 23, 2015 with EHL accomplishing all commitments which includes the acquisition of a 2,500 km² 3D...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has announced that there is enough crude oil and natural gas globally to feed demands, Dr Abdallah Salem El-Badri, the corporation’s Secretary General revealed. El-Badri stated that a recent study performed for the outstanding ultimately recoverable oil resources confirms it to be about 2.8 trillion bbls. “It should be underscored...

ICBC Standard Bank, formerly wholly owned subsidiary of the South African banking group Standard Bank was finally sentenced Monday, November 30th by British justice, to pay a fine of $ 32.6 million, in the framework of a corruption case which occurred four years ago in Tanzania and involved its local subsidiary Stanbic Bank Tanzania. Shareholders of the penalized bank are still to decide on...