• Cina USA Giappone

    Precision motor-maker Nidec to expand outside Japan with $1.2 billion purchase of Emerson Electric businesses

    Precision motor-maker Nidec Corp. has agreed to pay $1.2 billion (about ¥120 billion) for the motors, drives and electric power generation business of Emerson Electric Co., adding customers in Europe and North America in its largest purchase ever. The all-cash deal includes France-based Leroy Somer Holding and businesses based in ...

  • Giappone

    Trump blasts Buffett’s rebuke over his business credentials

    U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed off billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s blistering critique of his business acumen. “I don’t care much about Warren Buffett,” Trump said on the FOX Business television network Tuesday morning, a day after Buffett lashed out at Trump in a speech at a ...

  • Giappone Nigeria

    LAMATA, Japan to build $1bn Lagos urban rail

    Tobi Aworinde The Lagos State Government says it will partner the private sector, speficically Japan International Cooperation Agency, to construct a $1bn urban rail line. The state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, said this during a seminar by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority in conjunction with the Japanese ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA seizes N1.78b hard drug in Anambra

    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Anambra State  has arrested a 31-year-old man, Vincent Chidiebere, for allegedly peddling hard drug worth N1.78 billion. Addressing reporters in Onitsha yesterday, the Commander, Mr. Sule Momodu, said the suspect was arrested in Awka, the state capital, on July 28 with methamphetamine ...

  • Nigeria

    Why Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, others can’t access N64.8b UBE cash

    To enable them access the N64.8 billion Universal Basic Education (UBE) funds with ease,  the 36 governors have started to lobby President Muhammadu Buhari to amend the Universal Basic Education Act 2004. The governors are demanding amendment to a clause in the law which makes it compulsory for every state ...

  • Nigeria

    AMCON to lease seized property to bridge funding gap

    The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) may introduce the “real-estate investment scheme” by the end of the year to raise money to meet its bond repayments, its Chief Executive Officer Ahmed Kuru has said. Kuru told Bloomberg that the agency plans to sell the properties when the economy improves ...

  • Nigeria

    A Brief On New Chief Executives Of Education Agencies As They Assume Duty

    The Federal Ministry of Education, yesterday in Abuja, inaugurated the newly appointed heads of 17 parastatals and agencies under its purview at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the appointment of the 17 new chief executives of parastatals and agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education on ...

  • Brasile

    Comércio nacional espera queda de 9,4% nas vendas para Dia dos Pais

    Estudo divulgado pela Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC) para as vendas no Dia dos Pais, 14 de agosto, prevê queda no faturamento de 9,4% no país em comparação a igual período do ano passado, embora com um movimento de cerca de R$ 4,2 bilhões ...

  • Algeria

    GAFTA: Algeria shows trade deficit in 2015

    ALGIERS- Algeria's balance of trade with the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) showed a deficit of USD351 million in 2015, against a surplus of one billion dollars in 2014, the National Agency for Foreign Trade Promotion (ALGEX) told APS. Algerian exports to GAFTA countries dropped by more than ...

  • USA

    Obama: Ride the tide, or drown

    Defying popular opinion in his party, Obama thinks America needs to join Trans-Pacific Partnership - or be swept under the global economy.