• Nigeria

    Concluding thoughts on Nigeria’s economic restructuring (2)

    Eze Onyekpere The new economic paradigm should not be one of perverse incentives where physical and intellectual laziness and lack of creativity is encouraged and rewarded under an equalisation programme. Rather, it should be one that encourages creativity, the enhanced use of the intellect and physical action for the purposes ...

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    CBN boosts FX supply with $195m

    The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday intervened in inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market with the supply of $195m as part of efforts to stabilise the market. The acting Director, Corporate Communications of the apex bank, Mr Isaac Okorafor, in a statement, said $100m was offered through the wholesale segment. He ...

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    Rebasing Nigeria’s economy triggered grants withdrawal by donors – CISLAC

    The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre on Monday in Abuja said the 2014 rebasing of the nation’s economy had triggered withdrawal of international donations from Nigeria. Executive Director of the organisation, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, said this at a workshop for members of the National Assembly on “Understanding Nigeria’s Lower, Middle ...

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    Italia ai minimi per occupati, peggio solo Grecia e Turchia

    Italia agli ultimi posti nella classifica Ocse sul mercato del lavoro. Secondo i dati che mettono a confronto i Paesi dell'organizzazione, la percentuale di occupati nel primo trimestre del 2017...

  • Italia

    Lavoro: in Italia i NEET oltre la media dell' UE

    (Teleborsa) - Quest'anno si conferma positivo il mercato del lavoro e la crescita economica continua. Con oltre 234 milioni di persone che hanno un impiego, l'occupazione non è mai stata...

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    Akeredolu to Investors: Leave Lagos, Come to Ondo

    Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Monday urged investors in the country and outside the shores to bring their investments down to his state, instead of concentrating their investments in traffic-ridden and human congested Lagos State, saying that “my state is blessed with abundant resources”.  The governor made this known in ...

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    FG suspends former acting NHIS boss, eight others

    Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has suspended the former acting Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Mr. Olufemi Akingbade alongside seven other staff of the scheme. In a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, Mrs. Blade Akinola the action of the minister is ...

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    Calabar fire: NNPC cautions consumers over panic buying 

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has advised consumers of petroleum products across the country not to engage in panic buying as a result of the fire incident which occurred in the wee hours of July 15 at a tank farm at Calabar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ), in Cross Rivers ...

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    Heavy police presence at NHIS office

    Staff of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) resumed work Monday morning to heavy police presence at the Abuja headquarter office of the scheme. The heavy presence of the police personnel may not be unconnected with the weekend vow of the suspended Executive Secretary, Prof. Usman Yusuf to resume work. Yusuf ...

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    FG Suspends 8 Officials Of NHIS Over Alleged Sharp Practices

    BY DOYIN OJOSIPE, Abuja About 8 more officials of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have been placed on suspension pending when investigations into petitions of alleged corrupt practices will be concluded. This was disclosed Monday in a statement issued by the Federal Ministry of Health. According to the statement, ...