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Kenya
Learn all there’s to know about intellectual property law here
Book Review: ‘Intellectual Property and Innovation Law in Kenya and Africa: Transferring Technology for Sustainable Development’
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USA
Korean Energy Companies Uncertain Whether to Import American Energy
As the Trump Administration of the United States sets sail on January 20, the pressure on Korean energy companies to import crude oil and natural gas from America is rising fast. Still, they are reluctant to do so due to higher cost. SK Gas and E1, the nation's top liquefied ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA nabs textile trader with N426m drug on flight to Cambodia
Kunle Falayi Forty-seven-year-old textile trader, Ifeka Obi, was about to board a flight at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Wednesday when a search of his baggage revealed a curious cargo. Tucked within a load of foodstuffs, which he told operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at ...
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Nigeria
Buhari knocked for routine checks abroad despite N3.8bn Aso Villa clinic budget
Kamarudeen Ogundele, Success Nwogu, Simon Utebor, Etim Ekpimah, Hindi Livinus and Olaide Oyelude A cross-section of Nigerians and a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, have knocked President Muhammadu Buhari for shunning Nigeria to spend his vacation in the United Kingdom, and similarly choosing to have ‘routine’ medical checkup in the foreign ...
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Nigeria
Customs impounded N4.7B contraband goods in 2016
Gibson Achonu, Owerri The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’, Owerri, says it recorded in 2016 the seizure of 307 contraband goods worth N4, 756, 277,885.21. The Customs indicated that the figure was a combination of both the Duty Paid Value of N3,985,931,643.00 and an underpayment recovered as ...
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USA
Meryl Streep’s speech that angered Donald Trump
Jesusegun Alagbe At the 74th Golden Globe Awards held on January 8, 2016 in the United States, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honoured renowned 67-year-old American actress and singer, Meryl Streep, with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award. Recipients of the award are chosen by the HFPA’s Board of Directors, ...
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Portogallo
Portugal captou 627 milhões num ano em investimento com apoio AICEP
Números foram revelados no Parlamento, audição da comissão parlamentar de Negócios Estrangeiros e Comunidades Portuguesas, pelo ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Augusto Santos Silva, e difundidos pela Lusa.
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Nigeria
Ugly Tales Of Abuja Ghettos
In the recent past ,prostitution was known as an illicit trade exclusively for women. Another angle has arisen; now men who offer sex for money now abound. Of course, it is the new fad in the city’s many suburbs. SOLOMON AYADO writes on the ugly secrets, rising crime-rate and the ...
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USA
How We’ll Know If Trump Is Making America Great Again
Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign refrain will become the driving vision of the federal government when the billionaire developer takes the oath of office as president. But how will we know just how great America is becoming? Beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and better-known figures like wages ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA Nabs Cambodia Bound Trader With Drugs Worth $1.4m In Abuja Airport
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a textile merchant with 4.4kgs of methamphetamine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja on his way to the kingdom of Cambodia. According to NDLEA in an official statement signed by the Head, Public Affairs, Mr Ofoyeju Mitchell, announcing the interception ...