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Buhari to CBN: release N500b Paris Club cash
President advises governors to pay salaries, pension STATES got a piece of cheery news yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari directed Minister of Finance Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele to quickly facilitate the payment of the second tranche of the London-Paris Club refund to – ...
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Nigeria
Lagos eyes 27,500 jobs in new environmental policy
Barring the unforeseen, the implementation of the harmonised environmental law will start. BUNMI OGUNMODEDE writes on the dos and don’ts of the new environmental policy WITH the Environmental Management and Protection Bill signed into Law by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the stage is set for the implementation of a new policy ...
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Nigeria
How new environmental law will benefit Lagosians
LAGOSIANS are in for a good deal in the state’s new environmental law tagged: “Environmental Management and Protection Law”. The law, recently signed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, is to make the Centre of Excellence more liveable for its estimated 21 million inhabitants. Besides creating 27, 500 new jobs, the policy ...
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Nigeria
Serving judges can’t do business, says witness
THE Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Ahmed Saleh, testifying as the second prosecution witness yesterday in the on-going trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, said it is not legal for a serving judge to engage in any other business. Supreme Court Justice Ngwuta is being tried before the Federal High ...
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USA
Cricket reps return for club showdown
The business end of the 2016-17 Baywide cricket season is upon us with the Williams Cup plus WBOPCA Reserve Grade and B Grade semifinals taking place this weekend.Rotorua City Cricket Club was the first name engraved on the Williams...
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USA Giappone
U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin, from Wall Street to Hollywood to G-20 meeting
Newly installed U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who will make his first international outing at the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers on Friday and Saturday, is a banker with an unusual resume. Not quite a household name before being tapped for the Treasury post by President Donald Trump, ...
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USA Giappone
Stability of ailing Westinghouse parent Toshiba is vital, U.S. tells Japan
U.S. Cabinet members told Japanese industry minister Hiroshige Seko on Thursday that the United States regards the fiscal stability of Toshiba Corp., the ailing parent company of Westinghouse Electric Co., as extremely important. Speaking to reporters after separate talks with Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in ...
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USA Giappone
Pennsylvania blaze blamed on exploding hoverboard claims second child
A second child has died from a fire in Pennsylvania that fire officials blamed on an exploding hoverboard, a coroner said Thursday. The deaths — if definitively linked to the two-wheeled, battery-powered scooter — would be the first in the United States caused by a hoverboard fire. A county coroner ...
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Giappone
Yamato Transport eases hours of service for drivers
Yamato Transport Co.’s management and labor have agreed to carry out reforms for the parcel delivery time slots to improve work conditions for its drivers, sources said Thursday. The leading door-to-door parcel delivery firm will scrap the slot between noon and 2 p.m. in June to make it easier for ...
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Giappone
Tokyo court clears ex-Novartis employee of Diovan drug ad exaggeration charge
A former employee of the Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG was found not guilty Thursday of exaggerating advertising claims for the blood pressure-lowering drug Diovan. Besides clearing 66-year-old Nobuo Shirahashi of a violation under a pharmaceutical affairs law that bans fraudulent and exaggerated advertising, the Tokyo District ...