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USA Nigeria
APC governors: no law compels Buhari to chair FEC
It is not compulsory for President Muhammadu Buhari to preside over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors said yesterday. The states’ chief executives, under the auspices of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), spoke last night in Abuja after a meeting with members of ...
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Nigeria
Buhari to Jonathan: I allow the law to take its course
The Presidency yesterday denied that President Muhammadu Buhari was harassing members of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s family. Buhari spoke through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. He was reacting to the story, “Buhari’s govt harassing my family, says Jonathan” published in yesterday’s edition of The Nation. ...
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Nigeria
Power Generation: FG Partners ADB To Fund Coal Initiatives
As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues its in its supply of dollars at the foreign exchange market at both the interbank and bureau de change end of the markets, the external reserves of the country has continued to rise, recording a 17.9 per cent increase compared to what ...
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Nigeria
Mixed Reactions Trail Cbn’s New Allocation To Smes
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operators are cheering and at the same time fretting over the foreign exchange window created for them by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to import critical raw materials and machinery. Statistics from CBN showed that about 90 per cent of manufacturing companies in ...
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Nigeria
Harnessing Nigeria’s Natural Gas
In his presentation at the 2017 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Annual Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum, president of Nigerian Gas Association (NGA), Engr. Dada Thomas, did note the importance of natural gas to the economy. He however raised the questions that border on how it has been able ...
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Libano
Sonatrach préqualifiée pour l’exploration de gaz offshore au Liban
La compagnie nationale des hydrocarbures Sonatrach est préqualifiée pour participer à la première phase d'attribution de licences d'exploration et de production de gaz et de pétrole au large des côtes libanaises. Sonatrach International est présélectionnée aux côtés de 7 autres compagnies, rapporte le magazine Commerce du levant sur son site ...
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Giappone
EU hurries to fill Trump trade void with Pacific partners Japan, Mercosur
Europe’s claim to be the global champion of open trade and a counterweight to the threatened protectionism of U.S. President Donald Trump risks ringing hollow if it cannot sign a new Pacific free trade deal by the end of 2017. As part of the process, the European Union needs to ...
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Giappone
Convenience stores are part of Japan’s ‘social infrastructure,’ but labor crunch threatening that role
Japan’s growing labor shortage threatens the nation’s ubiquitous convenience stores, whose business model relies on an army of part-timers packing bento boxed lunches, manning cash registers and delivering goods 24/7. The big three operators 7-Eleven, FamilyMart and Lawson, which have expanded through Japan’s long slump, are scrambling to ease the ...
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USA Giappone
Trump won’t pull U.S. out of NAFTA, countries agree to ‘swiftly’ renegotiate
NAFTA partners Mexico, Canada and the United States plan to swiftly renegotiate their free trade deal, the White House announced Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump “agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly … to enable the renegotiation of the NAFTA deal,” a ...
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Giappone
FCC chief readies attack on ‘net neutrality’ rules amid stiff opposition
Internet companies are readying for a showdown with a Republican-controlled government over a policy near and dear to their hearts: net neutrality. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said in a Wednesday speech that he wants to ditch the Obama-era rules, hated by telecoms, that prevent broadband and wireless companies ...