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Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Private Medical Doctors Sues FCT Over Radio, Television, Other Taxes
BY DOYIN OJOSIPE, Abuja Private Medical Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, have registered their displeasure over what they termed as obnoxious taxes placed on their hospitals by the government. This is as the doctors are being charged about 20 different taxes, including, Television, Radio, environmental, monitoring and trade ...
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Workers Drag CISCON CEO To EFCC Over Alleged Economic Sabotage
BY ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, PORT HARCOURT Some concerned Nigerians working on a Port Harcourt-based major oil and gas serving company, Ciscon, have dragged the Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Shawley James Coker, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), accusing him of sabotaging the economy of Nigeria. The workers ...
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CBN, NEXIM vote N550b to stimulate export
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM Bank) are making N550 billion available for lending to non-oil exporters. The loan will come at nine per cent interest rate and is expected to help the investors export more commodities, earn more foreign exchange from export proceeds and ...
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Buhari, Security and the Right Team Strategy
By Agbese Philip – President Muhammadu Buhari used his visit to Kano this week to reaffirm that security, the economy and fight against corruption remain the cardinal principle of his All Progressives Congress (APC) administration. Such assurance is definitely needed in a clime and place where the tendency is to latch ...
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Atriz mineira diz que se orgulha de levar a arte a lugares onde não chega
A atriz mineira Teuda Bara conversa com Roseann Kennedy Divulgação/TV Brasil A história do teatro mineiro está entrelaçada com a carreira da atriz Teuda Bara. Nascida em Belo Horizonte, ela tem mais de 50 anos de palco e traz na bagagem uma enorme quantidade de personagens do teatro, do cinema ...
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LASU must adhere to rule of law, due process – VC
Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, has said that institution would remain committed to the rule of law, due process and transparency. “It seems we are stepping on toes but we will not say because we want peace to reign, we allow the rule of law to be ...
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NIESV Inducts 292 Associate Members
By Ejike Ejike, Abuja The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) has inducted 292 newly associate members, urging them to imbibe professionalism in the practice of real estate business. The President of NIESV, Dr Bolarinde Patunola-Ajayi, while making his remark over the weekend in Abuja at the 2017 ...
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Police arraign bizman for allegedly beating brother’s 60-yr-old wife over sick husband’s property
A 60-year-old woman, Mrs. Olufunke Labinjo was allegedly beaten to a pulp by her brother-in-law, Kamoru Labinjo, for resisting his attempt to forcibly take over the management of her sick husband’s property. The accused allegedly assaulted the complainant in public by raining blows on her face. The incident happened when ...
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Mum Inspired My Business Acumen – Ohiza
LIFE IN BRIEF Oyiza Bello was born into a polygamous family in 1983 at Okoroke, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State. She attended both primary and secondary schools in Okehi after which she proceeded to the Jos Television School, Jos, Plateau State. She is happily married with a baby ...
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Edo, CBN set aside N500m credit facility to de-risk Agric investments
The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has inaugurated a nine-man committee to oversee the N500 million Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS) initiated in alliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to de-risk investments in agriculture in the state. Obaseki inaugurated the committee headed by the Special Adviser ...
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Gwarzo suspension: I won’t succumb to blackmail, Adeosun vows
Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun Friday claimed that some vested interests were blackmailing her over her recent suspension of the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Mounir Gwarzo, and the setting up of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry instituted against him. She did not name the alleged blackmailers but vowed to ...
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UN condemns Libya’s African slave trade
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned the slave trade of African migrants in Libya as “heinous human rights abuses which may also amount to crimes against humanity,” and called on those responsible to be held to account. In a statement read out to a formal meeting by Amb. Koro Bessho of ...
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PSC approves promotion of 250 Police officers
The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion and confirmation of acting appointments of 250 senior Police officers. The Commission approved the promotion of CP Etop John James and CP Rasheed Olatunde Akintunde to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG. The Police chief in charge of ...
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Obaseki commissions glass factory in Edo
In what seems to be a direct consequence of novel reforms to open up its business space, Edo State is welcoming an influx of foreign investors, as the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki commissioned Rongsheng Glass Nigeria Limited in Utesi, Benin City. Obaseki, during the commissioning ceremony at the factory ...
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Aisha Buhari partners Noor Dubai Foundation over visual healthcare
To accelerate access to visual healthcare in Nigeria, the Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has secured partnership with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Noor Dubai Foundation to launch a four-year eye treatment and prevention programme in Nigeria. The partnership was sealed at Dubai (UAE) before officials of ...
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Nigeria:Bankers' Committee Agri-Business Investment Scheme Takes Off
[This Day] Disbursement of funds for the Agri-Business, Small and Medium Enterprises Investment Scheme (AGSMEIS), an initiative of the Bankers' Committee has commenced.
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Nigeria:Financial Rules Compliance Will Attract Foreign Investments, Institute Says
[This Day] The Compliance Institute of Nigeria (CIN) has stressed that with total compliance to the financial rules and regulations in the country, Nigeria willbe able to attract huge flow of foreign investments.
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Yuletide: Smugglers Lose N1.6bn To FG As Customs Impounds 64 Vehicles, Smuggled Rice
By YUSUF BABALOLA, Lagos The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja yesterday said it intercepted 22 truckloads of foreign parboiled rice with 64 units of vehicles smuggled into the country from neighbouring countries. This was disclosed by the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), ...
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Slave Trade: FG Summons Nigeria’s Envoy In Tripoli
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah, Abuja The federal government has summoned Nigeria’s Charge D’ Affairs in Tripoli over the Libya slave trade scandal. Recall that last week It was reported that hundreds of people are being auctioned in modern day slave markets in Libya for as little as $400. Libya is ...
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Mantega e Foster são denunciados no Rio por prejuízos na Petrobras
O Ministério Público Federal do estado do Rio de Janeiro entrou com uma ação civil pública contra o ex-ministro da Fazenda Guido Mantega e a ex-presidente da Petrobras Graça Foster por improbidade administrativa. O processo trata sobre a política de preços da gasolina e do diesel da estatal, que foi ...
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Customs impound contraband valued N1.59bn
The Federal Operations Unit of the Nigeria Customs Service ( NCS ) intercepted various contraband with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N1.59 billion between the 1st to 30th of November. The Customs Area Controller ( CAC ) of the unit, Comptroller Garba Mohammed, said this when he conducted newsmen ...