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Nigeria
I joined cult group to obtain business loan –Hair stylist
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Police in Abuja have arrested 12 suspected members of a cult group, Norsemen, who have been terrorising residents of Apo District, Abuja, for some time. Items recovered from the boys, who are being detained at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad facility, include a locally fabricated rifle, three cutlasses ...
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Kenya
Business: Michael Joseph: Kenya Airways to focus on restructuring its financing
Kenya Airways needs to extend debt repayments and make other changes to restructure its balance sheet, which would take priority over finding a strategic partner, the new chairman of the loss-making airline told Reuters.
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Kenya
Business: Balala names task force to sell Kenya as tourist destination
Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has formed a task force to endear Kenya as a tourism and investment destination.
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Kenya
Business News: Balala names task force to sell Kenya as tourist destination
Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has formed a task force to endear Kenya as a tourism and investment destination.
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Malta
MCAST, Johann Strauss School of Music, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academy sign agreement
MCAST, the Johann Strauss School of Music and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academy today signed a collaborative agreement which will provide an accessible, long-term educational pathway for young musicians so that they may have the opportunity to become professional musicians. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed at MCAST Main Campus ...
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Cina India USA Malta
Breakthrough in Chinese tourism market is ‘welcome news’ – MHRA
The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) welcomed the announcement made yesterday by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in parliament that Government has signed agreements with Bank of China and China International Travel Services through which 10,000 Chinese visitors will come to Malta by 2018 and 50,000 by 2020. MHRA president ...
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Malta
EU presidency: hotel price hikes not expected to deter average tourist – Zammit Lewis
While Malta’s high-end hotels gear themselves for the conferences taking place in Malta during the 2017 EU Council Presidency, Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis discusses how this will not deter the average tourist.“As with other conferences and meetings, the EU Presidency attracts business delegates who can afford to stay in ...
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USA Malta
Government insists on strategic partner for Air Malta, but does not rule out local investment
Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis insisted today that the way forward for Air Malta was to find a strategic partner but said the government had never closed the door for local investment. His comments came after a newspaper report this morning said the government was likely to pull the plug ...
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Regno Unito Malta Cipro Italia
Wardens to employ 'education approach' on smoking ban in cars with children
Wardens will be employing an "education approach" when the new law banning smoking in cars with children as passengers comes into force on 1 January, warden service operator Kenneth De Martino said yesterday.In comments to The Malta Independent, he said enforcement on the ban on smoking in cars with children ...
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Malta
Planning Authority: controlled anarchy - Astrid Vella
This is an article penned by Astrid VellaI never thought that I would hear myself say that the Planning Authority (formerly MEPA) should be disbanded altogether. I had thought that imperfect as it was, the Planning Authority prevented Malta from sinking into uncontrolled anarchy. I was wrong. At the Lija ...