• Turchia USA

    Reshuffle in Turkish cabinet

    I’m curious what will happen if certain cabinet ministers are changed this week. Let us assume that the foreign minister is changed. Will Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s replacement, who will still be from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), make substantial changes to Turkey’s foreign policy?

  • Brasile Cina Portogallo

    Topo da agenda: o que não deve perder na economia e nos mercados esta semana

    A semana dos mercados vai ficar marcada pela reunião de política monetária do BCE, enquanto a zona euro vai conhecer os dados finais do PIB no primeiro trimestre do ano. Em Portugal, são conhecidas as estatísticas do comércio internacional. Na China e no Brasil, serão divulgados números da inflação.

  • Corea del Sud

    Prez. Moon: "Alzheimer's Is State's Responsibility...Gov't to Push for Cutting Cost in Half"

    The Moon Jae-in government will seek to cut the cost of caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease by half. Under this plan, the government will raise the coverage ratio of the health insurance from current 80 percent to 90 percent while lowering the out-of-pocket cost from 20 percent to 10 ...

  • Cina

    Hyundai, Kia sales in China plunge 65% last month

    Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. saw their combined sales in China plunge 65.1 percent last month from a year earl

  • Nigeria

    FMBN identifies low income as challenge to housing finance

    Femi Makinde, Osogbo The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria has said low income wages being earned by some categories of workers are one of the challenges hindering its efforts at housing finance in the country. The Managing Director,FMBN, Ahmed Dangiwa, said this in Osogbo on Friday at the presentation of ...

  • Nigeria

    Reforming Nigeria Police for efficiency

    Rising insecurity across the country in recent times and the response of the Nigeria Police require a thorough review and overhaul of the security system. In Lagos, criminal gangs struck in Epe and Ikorodu, kidnapping six children in one instance and wiping out an entire family in the other, underscoring ...

  • Nigeria

    Introduce poverty alleviation products, LCCI advises insurers

     Nike Popoola The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged the insurance industry operators to introduce products that can alleviate poverty, as the country moves out of recession. The President, LCCI, Dr. Nike Akande, said this during a stakeholders’ forum for artisans and other association bodies with the theme, ...

  • Nigeria

    Presidency not wrong by delayed budget signing – Rep

    John Ameh, Abuja The House of Representatives said on Sunday that no law had been breached so far in the delayed signing of the 2017 budget by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Its spokesman, Mr Abdulrazak Namdas, told The PUNCH in Abuja that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) gave ...

  • Nigeria

    Oppressive contradictions in Nigeria’s economy

    Henry Boyo The question is, Why have we become so poor despite our abundant human and material resources? The following is a summary of this writer’s presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Recession, recently. Please read on: “Readily available evidence, ironically, indicates that the fundamental cause of our ...

  • Nigeria

    Chevron wants more efforts to tackle environmental issues

    Maureen  Ihua-Maduenyi Chevron Nigeria Limited, operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and CNL JV, has called for more efforts towards solving most of the global environmental issues that affect humanity. The organisation made the call in a statement issued on the World Environment Day today ...