• Nigeria

    OPS seeks inclusion in ease of doing business panel

    Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chief Nike Akande, on Monday urged the Federal Government to include members of the Organised Private Sector in the Ease of Doing Business Committee that it recently set up. Akande, a former Minister of Industry, spoke with ...

  • Nigeria

    FG considers asset sales, others to revamp economy

    Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, on Monday gave further insights into the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan due to be launched next month. He said the government planned to privatise some selected national assets and restore the 2.2 million barrels ...

  • Nigeria

    FG to BBOG: Stick to your advocacy role

    The Federal Government on Monday advised the Bring Back Our Girls Group to stick to its advocacy role. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also urged the group to see the government as a partner rather than an adversary in its quest to secure the release of ...

  • Nigeria

    FG releases counterpart funding for Lagos-Ibadan rail project

    The Federal Government on Monday said it has released N72 billion as the full counterpart funding for the construction of Lagos-Ibadan modernization railway project. This was disclosed by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, at the second Presidential Business Forum in Abuja. He said: “For the construction of Lagos-Ibadan railway, ...

  • Nigeria

    Manufactures Beg FG To Review 41 Banned Items

    The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has once again pleaded with the federal government to review foreign exchange policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which placed ban on 41 items from accessing the forex market. Speaking exclusively to LEADERSHIP, the president of the association, Mr Jacob Frank said ...

  • USA

    Trump Signs U.S. Out Of Trans-Pacific Trade

    In keeping with his campaign promise, U.S. President, Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (TPP). This was part of a series of executive orders which Trump intends to implement as part of efforts to reshape the trade policies of ...

  • Nigeria

    Obaseki Sets To Tackle Menace of Street Children In Edo

    Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government would partner religious bodies to address the menace of street trading by children. Governor Obaseki disclosed this when the Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, Dr Samuel Uche and other clerics paid him a courtesy visit in Government House in ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA Arrests 200 Suspected Drug Traffickers In Cross River

    The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Cross River says it arrested 200 suspects for various drug related offences in 2016. Mrs Antonia Edeh, State Commander of NDLEA disclosed this on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. Edeh said that, out of ...

  • Francia

    Davos, Fos-sur-Mer, comment le monde et l’Algérie ont symboliquement changé en une séquence

    Trois événements ont imprimé cette semaine la chronique du monde qui change. L’effet ciseau à Davos entre les deux premières économies du monde, les états-unis et la Chine. La première complainte française qui pointe les défaillances de livraison de gaz naturel algérien et le lancement par l’Algérie du plus grand appel ...

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    Contributions to Country-Based Pooled Funds hit record levels with over US$700 million in 2016

    Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, World, YemenMoney is allocated in conjunction with Humanitarian Response Plans, ensuring availability at the ...