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Nigeria
Customs impound 11 smuggled exotic cars
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ has impounded 11 smuggled exotic vehicles with a duty paid value of N125.4m. Disclosing this to journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, the Controller, NCS FOU, Zone ‘A’, Mohammed Uba, also stated that eight suspects had been arrested in connection with 128 ...
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Nigeria
Stakeholders to focus on trends in haulage business
Stakeholders in the Nigerian haulage industry are preparing for the 2017 edition of the Haulage and Logistics Magazine Annual Conference & Exhibition tagged Haulmace 2017. The stakeholders, according to a statement on Wednesday, would discuss the emerging trends in the haulage business in Nigeria in an attempt to move the ...
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Nigeria
Firm, LASU partner to train students in water production
For the third time Rinllandded Nigeria Limited has collaborated with the Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lagos State University (LASU) to train students in water treatment and packaging. The trainee students, who cut across various faculties in the university, were at the Iyana Era premises of the firms’s water packaging plant, ...
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Nigeria
Stakeholders Urge Nigerians To Be Heart Healthy
BY ODIRI UCHENUNU-IBEH, Lagos As heart disease and stroke maintain lead in the causes of death globally, claiming over 17 million lives each year, stakeholders in the health sector have urged Nigerians to be heart healthy. The Marketing Director, PZ Wilmar, Mr. Kalyan Bandyopadhyay said there is need to embark ...
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Brasile
Três pessoas são presas no RS por negociar bebê por R$ 100 mil
Três pessoas foram presas na manhã desta quarta-feira (4/10), suspeitas de negociar a venda de um bebê por R$ 100 mil no Rio Grande do Sul. Segundo a Polícia Civil, as prisões aconteceram em Novo Hamburgo, na região do Vale do Sinos e no balneário Pinhal, no ...
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Brasile
Brazil’s Mais Medicos Program to Lose Cuban Doctors
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Nearly 1,400 Brazilian doctors with foreign diplomas were admitted into the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) program on Tuesday (October 3rd), as Brazil’s government tries to substitute foreign doctors in the program for Brazilian ones. Recently Cuban doctors finishing up their ...
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Brasile
Itacuruçá: A Natural Paradise in the Southern Rio State
By Beatriz Miranda, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As the hot summer season gets closer in Brazil, there is nothing like a getaway to a nice beach area nearby. Still little known among many foreign travelers, the district of Itacuruçá might be just the spot to add to ...
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Danimarca
Campari vende Lemonsoda alla danese Royal Unibrew per 80 milioni
Campari ha siglato un accordo per la cessione del business Lemonsoda a Royal Unibrew, società produttrice di bevande con sede in Danimarca. Il corrispettivo dell'operazione...
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Spagna
Madrid in picchiata tra gli eurolistini. Piazza Affari cede alle vendite
(Teleborsa) - Le borse europee tagliano il traguardo senza particolare verve, mentre Piazza Affari chiude in calo, seconda nelle vendite solo alla borsa di Madrid che da giorni sconta...
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USA
Syrians at the berm: surviving in nightmarish conditions with uncertain status
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Country: Jordan, Syrian Arab RepublicLatest estimates from August 2017 put the number of people on the border between Syria and Jordan at 45,000-50,000. The UN estimates that four out of five of are women and children.Tens of thousands of Syrians are stuck in no man’s land ...