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Nigeria
GE, Tony Elumelu Foundation Partner On Lagos Garage
Multinational energy giant, General Electric (GE), and leading entrepreneurship promoter, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), have announced a partnership that would allow up to 25 TEF Entrepreneurs to participate in a dedicated 4-week advanced manufacturing training programme every year at GE’s Lagos Garage – a hub for advanced manufacturing-based innovation, ...
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Nigeria
FIRS Makes N27bn From Tax Waiver Programme
The executive chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Tunde Fowler, has disclosed that the agency realised the sum of N27.086 billion from the waiver of tax penalty and interest programme. Fowler disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during the oversight visit by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance to the ...
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Nigeria
Ekweremadu Tasks Onnoghen On Rule of Law, Independence of Judiciar
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has charged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, on the protection of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary. According to a statement by his media aide, Uche Anichukwu, he gave the charge yesterday in ...
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Canada
L’AIE craint un nouveau choc pétrolier
L’offre mondiale de pétrole pourrait avoir du mal à suivre le rythme de la demande au-delà de 2020», prévient l’Agence internationale de l’énergie (AIE). Elle table sur un nouveau choc pétrolier dans trois ans, en raison de la baisse conséquente des investissements enclenchée depuis deux ans et qui risque de ...
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Cina Giappone
Three arrested for unauthorized export to China of carbon fiber making equipment
Three men were arrested Wednesday for allegedly exporting equipment for making carbon fiber to China without government permission, police sources said. The flexible fiber the equipment makes is 10 times stronger and four times lighter than steel. It can be used to make parts for centrifuges that enrich uranium as ...
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Giappone
Nikkei drops for fourth session amid wait-and-see mood
The key Nikkei average fell for the fourth straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, amid a growing wait-and-see mood ahead of closely watched events, in particular the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision next week. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 90.12 points, or 0.47 percent, to end at ...
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Giappone
Fourth-quarter GDP revised up as capital expenditure rises steadily
Japan’s economy grew more than previously estimated in the fourth quarter as capital expenditure rose at its fastest rate in almost three years — welcome news for policymakers as they begin to discuss how to wind down years of massive stimulus. The economy grew an annualized 1.2 percent in October-December, ...
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Giappone
Harvard dropout Zuckerberg to give commencement speech at alma mater
Mark Zuckerberg is headed back to Harvard, but this time he’ll be giving the commencement speech. The Ivy League school announced Tuesday that the Facebook CEO and Harvard dropout was chosen to address students at a May 25 graduation ceremony on the Cambridge campus. Harvard President Drew Faust says Zuckerberg ...
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Giappone
Carmakers quiet as Trump looks to roll back Obama-issued federal fuel-economy rules
The Trump administration is moving to roll back federal fuel-economy requirements that would have forced automakers to increase significantly the efficiency of new cars and trucks, a key part of former President Barack Obama’s strategy to combat global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency is close to an announcement reversing a ...
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Giappone
South Carolina suit against Boeing alleges catastrophic failures may have caused MH370 crash
A series of catastrophic electrical and other failures may have led to the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. on behalf of the families of 44 people on board the still missing plane. The lawsuit, filed Friday against ...