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Nigeria
CBN directs banks to pay cash to forex users
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday directed all banks to pay cash over-the-counter to desiring foreign exchange customers. The directive, according to the Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, CBN, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, was issued to further ease the access of customers to foreign exchange. He said ...
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Nigeria
VoguePay gets Fintech start-up recognition
Ozioma Ubabukoh A secure payment gateway, VoguePay.com, has won the ‘Best Fintech Start-up’ at the sixth edition of the Cashless Africa Award, organised by Mobile Money Africa in Lagos and attended by stakeholders in the digital finance industry across Africa and other parts of the world. The Principal Associate of ...
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Nigeria
Imo kidnappers abduct businessman
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri A Lagos-based businessman, Benedict Kpaduwa, has been abducted by some gunmen at his hometown in Anara, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State. Kpaduwa was a former Principal Manager, Finance and Accounts, at the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria. PUNCH Metro learnt the ...
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Nigeria
Govt warns against ISIS’ new recruitment strategy
The Federal Government yesterday urged parents and guardians to monitor their children and wards to prevent them from joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It said that ISIS and other terror organisations target vulnerable individuals, including foreign students, using financial inducements to recruit them as members. Information, ...
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Nigeria
‘Customs responsible for 82% of ports charges’
• Over one million jobs created since concession The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and other government agencies account for the huge cost of doing business at the ports, Nigeria’s leading accounting firm, Akintola Williams Deloitte, has said. It stated this in an industry report titled: “Public Private Partnership (PPP) As an ...
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Etiopia
Donkey Meat Up for Export, Slaughterhouse Opens
Ethiopia is to export donkey’s meat, following the start of operations at a slaughterhouse in Bishoftu (Debrezeit) town, 48Km east of Addis Abeba. Shandong Dong, a donkey slaughterhouse, has just…
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Italia
Auto, immatricolazioni in Italia al top dal 2010. Fiat Chrysler sempre in pole
(Teleborsa) - Le immatricolazioni in Italia sono volate ai massimi dal 2010, confermando il boom dell'auto e la leadership di Fiat Chrysler nel mercato italiano. Secondo i dati diffusi...
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Argentina
Macri critica huelga general en Argentina y tilda de 'mafiosos' a gremialistas
El paro nacional es el corolario de seis masivas manifestaciones opositoras en marzo de obreros industriales, educadores, trabajadores estatales y defensores de los derechos humanos.
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Giappone
Mexican newspaper shut down in face of numerous, unpunished killings of journalists
A newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez announced Sunday that it is shutting down because the rampant, unpunished killings of journalists in the country have made it too dangerous to go on. Norte executive Oscar Cantu Murguia informed readers of his decision in a farewell letter titled “Adios!” ...
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Giappone Spagna Regno Unito
Spain sees its coveted ‘Rock’ as Brexit-EU bargaining chip
Madrid and London are once again locking horns over Gibraltar, a British overseas territory that appears to have become a Brexit negotiating weapon for Spain and the EU and signals difficulties ahead for Britain. Tensions over the territory known as “the Rock” have ebbed and flowed over the years, but ...