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USA Giappone
Feds raid California business over green card scam linked to rich Chinese
Federal authorities on Wednesday raided a Los Angeles-area business suspected of cheating the U.S. government visa program to obtain green cards for wealthy Chinese investors. Investigators searched the office of the California Investment Immigration Fund in San Gabriel as part of the fraud investigation. Under a U.S. government program, foreign ...
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Giappone
Union Pacific gets most violation notices as 24,000 defects found on U.S. oil train routes
When a freight train derailed in the Montana town of Culbertson, spilling 27,000 gallons of crude oil, investigators blamed the 2015 accident on defective or missing fasteners used to hold the tracks in place. The previous year, cracks in a track that went unrepaired caused a train hauling oil to ...
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Nigeria
The Politicisation And Destruction Of The Foreign Service
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) began as a Department in the office of the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, in 1957 with the name: Department of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations. It was to handle all aspects of Nigeria’s bilateral and multilateral relations with the outside world, and ...
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Nigeria
Restructuring: SOKAPU To Partner Niger Delta, Middle Belt, Others
The umbrella body of over 45 ethnic nationalities in Southern Kaduna under the platform of Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union (SOKAPU) has concluded arrangement to partner with Niger Delta, Middle Belt and other Southern pressure groups in order to take a common position on restructuring Nigeria. The group in a ...
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Nigeria
Group Lauds CAC For 48 Hours Biz Registration
The Society for Civic Education and Gender Equity (SOCEGE), has lauded the Mahmud Bello-led Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), for easing the process of business registration in the country. SOCEGE’ Lead Director, Ms. Chizoba Okonkwo, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the application of ICT in business registration would open up ...
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Nigeria
Proper Implementation of Economic Recovery Growth Plan Will Revive Nigeria’s Economy- Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has expressed confidence that if properly implemented, the Economic Recovery Growth Plan launched by President Muhammadu Buhari , (ERGP), will revive Nigeria’s economy Dogara stated this Wednesday at the launch of the Economic Recovery Growth Plan at the Presidential villa in Abuja, ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria Running On Lottery -Utomi
Foremost economist and founder of Lagos Business School, Prof. Pat Utomi has blamed the current economic recession in the country on planlessness and lack foresight which a good national budget could have taken care of easily. Speaking as a guest lecturer yesterday at Dr Emmanuel Egbogah Budget Roundtable titled: Budget ...
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Nigeria
FG Launches The Economic Recovery And Growth Plan
The federal government has officially launched the Nigeria Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) meant to restructure the country and its economy from 2017 to 2020. The Minister of Budget and National Planning Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma in his speech at the event which took place at the state house ...
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Portogallo
De olho na História
O sucesso do Parque Cristóvão Colombo ficou por apurar. Perdemos o rasto desta grande novidade que pretendia animar o verão de 1944 (no Porto Santo). Ficou, porém, a memória de um projecto arrojado e ficou a visão e o sentido de oportunidade.
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Malta
Updated: PN leader proposes voucher scheme in exchange for unwanted cars; PL reacts
Creating a scheme where an individual would be given a monetary voucher in exchange for an unwanted car may help reduce traffic on our roads, according to Nationalist Party Leader Simon Busuttil.The Nationalist Party is putting efficient transport systems and decreasing traffic as a priority if elected in the next ...