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Kenya
Business News: Barclays Bank of Kenya set to lay off 130 workers
Barclays Bank has become the latest lender to sack its employees in an exercise targeting about 130 employees.
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USA
Business News: Gichuru and Okemo challenge DPP Tobiko's powers to order extradition
Two former senior Government officials have challenged the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) powers to extradite them to New Jersey in the US to face corruption and money-laundering charges.
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USA
Business: Gichuru and Okemo challenge DPP Tobiko's powers to order extradition
Two former senior Government officials have challenged the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) powers to extradite them to New Jersey in the US to face corruption and money-laundering charges.
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Kenya
Business: Why Nairobi slums fires are not about to end
According to research, the residents are most vulnerable because of their lifestyles and illegal electricity connections.
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USA
Former Enron Prosecutor Leslie Caldwell to Join Latham & Watkins
The former senior federal prosecutor will become a partner in the law firm’s white-collar defense and investigations practice in San Francisco.
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Cina Vietnam
No. of Foreign Nationals Residing in Korea Exceeds 2 Mil. in 2016
Of the foreign nationals residing in Korea, those from Vietnam were ranked second after China. The number of foreign nationals staying in Korea surpassed 2 million for the first time last year, accounting for about 4 percent of the total population of 51 million. The Ministry of Justice published on June ...
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Nigeria
N381bn health insurance fund: Minister, NHIS, HMOs trade words
John Ameh, Abuja The Federal Government and the Health Maintenance Organisations, on Wednesday, traded blame over the alleged “fraud” in the utilisation of the N381bn spent on the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme since inception in 2005. The blame game took place before the House of Representatives Committee ...
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Nigeria
Trump says he prefers having rich person in charge of economy
U.S. President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t want a poor person in charge of the economy, as he defended his cabinet, which is thought to be the wealthiest in the country’s history. “Somebody said, ‘Why did you appoint a rich person to be in charge of the economy?’” he told ...
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Nigeria
Kaduna to partner CSO to mobilise women against malnutrition
The Kaduna State Government said on Wednesday that it would partner the Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) to mobilise women against malnutrition in the state. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, said this when Mr Silas Ideva, CS-SUNN Coordinator and other members of ...
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Nigeria
$40m Contract: We Didn’t Transact Business With Jonathan’s Cousin – Witness
By KUNLE OLASANMI, The trial of the cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Azibaola Robert and wife, Stella, continued on Wednesday with the ninth witness called by the prosecution denying knowing or transacting any business with the respondents. The witness, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, a leading information technology expert in Nigeria, ...