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Nigeria
Tambuwal sacks revenue board, appoints interim committee
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has approved the dissolution of the management committee of the state’s Board of Internal Revenue. The state Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Saidu Umar, in a statement, said a nine-member interim management committee had been constituted, pending when a substantive board would be appointed. The commissioner ...
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Nigeria
Eurobond Success, Implication For Nigeria’s Economy
The over subscription of Nigeria’s $1billion Eurobond by a whopping 750 per cent confirmed the position of the federal government and its agencies like the Debt Management Office (DMO) that Nigeria’s economy is bankable and has earned the confidence of investors, local and foreign. It was, indeed, a day of ...
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Nigeria
NTDC Endorses Tourism Book For Secondary School Curriculum
As part of its efforts to ensure lasting promotion of tourism in Nigeria by instilling it into the Nigerian youths, the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) has endorsed a new book, “Redefining Tourism in Nigeria: The Real Issues and Challenge, Vol. 1-3,” into the Nigerian Secondary School curriculum. Speaking in ...
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Spagna
La reforma laboral cumple cinco años con más empleo y con el mismo rechazo
Madrid, 11 feb (EFE).- La reforma laboral ha cumplido esta semana cinco años con el balance positivo de 355.100 empleados más y un millón de parados menos, pero con la denuncia de la creciente precariedad del mercado de trabajo por parte de los sindicatos y la oposición, que siguen exigiendo ...
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Thailandia
Restaurants to sell food via UberEATS
The Business Development Department is supporting about 12,000 Thai restaurateurs to sell their dishes via UberEATS, a food-delivery app.
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Thailandia
Chiang Mai to become smart city
The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa), formerly known as Sipa, is embarking on a 36.5-million-baht smart city project to develop Chiang Mai as an innovation-driven destination.
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Thailandia
DPO expects 7% milk sales growth
The Dairy Farming Promotion Organization (DPO), the producer of Thai-Danish dairy products, expects sales to rise by 7% to 9.05 billion baht this year, thanks to rising milk demand and its wider distribution channel.
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Thailandia
4.3% GDP growth predicted in 2018
Standard Chartered Bank Thai expects the economy to gain momentum and reach its growth potential of 4.3% by 2018, underpinned by hefty state investment and private spending.
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Giappone
Sticky, insect-sized drones could act as pollinators
Small drones coated with horsehair and a sticky gel could one day help pollinate crops and offset the costly loss of bee populations worldwide, researchers in Japan say. The miniature robots, described in the journal Chem, are a long way from being deployed in the field, but researchers say they ...
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USA Yemen
Civilians in Yemen caught between warring parties
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country: YemenExtremely worrying reports suggest that civilians have been targeted, in violation of international humanitarian and human rights laws, in the south-western port of Al Mokha in Taizz Governorate.GENEVA (10 February 2017) – Extremely worrying reports suggest that civilians and civilian ...