• Taiwan

    Japanese beef brings increasing business to Taiwan restaurant chain

    A restaurant chain in Taiwan has seen its business jump by at least 50 percent since it began importing Japanese beef after a ban on ...

  • Nigeria

    Group wants shelter for vulnerable girl-child

    Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The International Charitable Initiative for Girl Child and Woman Development Foundation on Wednesday asked the Lagos State Assembly to review the state child’s right law to provide “supportive housing” for vulnerable girl-child. The President of ICI-GWODE, Helen Ibeji, stated this during the group’s visit to lawmakers at the ...

  • Cipro

    $20m bribery: Indicted foreign company bids for NPA contract

    Niyi Odebode, Eniola Akinkuotu and Anna Okon  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it is still investigating  the $20m bribery scam involving a company, Dredging International Services (Cyprus) Ltd. and some former officials of  the Nigerian Ports Authority. There were  reports in August that  the Swiss authorities, had through ...

  • Nigeria

    FG moves to enforce ‘no work, no pay’ rule

    Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Federal Government has started the process of enforcing the ‘no work, no pay’ rule said to be captured in the Trade Disputes of the Federation. Once enforced, any worker who embarks on industrial action will lose his or her pay for that period while the period ...

  • USA Nigeria Regno Unito

    IPOB’s ban: FG writes to US, UK, others, lawyer faults move

    Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal Government has formally notified the governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and other foreign countries about the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, and the designation of the group as a terrorist organisation, The PUNCH has learnt. The Federal High ...

  • Nigeria

    Govt to prosecute hospitals hiring unlicensed record officers

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeria has warned hospitals and other health establishments to stop hiring unlicensed records officers as those found culpable will be handed over to law enforcement agencies. The Registrar of the board, Alhaji Mohammed Mami, said this shortly after constituting some ...

  • USA Nigeria

    IMF warns Nigeria, others over rising foreign debts

    Oyetunji Abioye, Washington DC The International Monetary Fund has warned Nigeria and other oil-exporting countries over rising foreign debts, saying there is a need to make external borrowings sustainable. The Fund, however, commended Nigeria for the recent reforms aimed at reducing infrastructure gap in the country, adding that it was ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria wins World Bank’s youth development initiative

    For the second successive year, Nigeria has won the Ideas for Action initiative, a youth competition on financing for development, which is organised by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. Nigeria’s winning proposal, “Kitovu,” came out tops from among 743 proposals from ...

  • USA Nigeria

    IMF warns Nigeria, others over rising foreign debt

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned the Federal Government about its rising debt profile, especially of foreign loans. Speaking yesterday at the ongoing World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C, IMF Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department Tobias Adrian, lamented that external borrowing in emerging markets and low-income countries, ...

  • Nigeria

    Reps Demand Audit Trail Of Stamp Duty Account

    By ADEBIYI ADEDAPO,  Abuja The House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications has disagreed with some commercial banks over excess charges on the stamp duty of N50 on every N1000 deposit. To this end, the committee insisted that it would work with consultants to audit records of individual banks as well ...