PAMA Issues Dire Warning on Economic Impact of Insecurities on African Manufacturers

The Pan-African Manufacturers Association (PAMA) has issued an urgent alert regarding the devastating effects of insecurity on Africa’s manufacturing sector. In its February 2025 news bulletin, PAMA pointed to grave examples, particularly the destruction wrought by Boko Haram, ISWAP, and Ansaru in Nigeria’s northeastern regions, which have forced more than 60 manufacturing firms to shutter…

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MTN Ventures into cloud services to rival Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others

• MTN Nigeria Executives L-R Roger Shutte: General Manager for Infrastructure, Shoyinka: Shodunke Chief Information officer, Karl Toriola: CEO MTN Nigeria today, July 1, 2025, launched what it describes as West Africa’s largest Tier III data centre—and one of the largest in Africa. TechPoint Africa reports that the data centre is named after MTN Nigeria’s…

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