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Brasile USA
Brazil Led Region’s Direct Foreign Investment Inflows in 2016
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Despite the deep economic recession facing the country, Brazil led foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Latin America, obtaining 47 percent of total direct investment in the region, approximately US$78.9 billion last year according to the Economic Commission for Latin ...
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Portogallo
Eduardo Jesus rejeita que tenham dormido milhares de pessoas no Aeroporto da Madeira
O secretário regional da Economia, Turismo e Cultura, Eduardo Jesus esteve hoje reunido com várias entidades aeroportuárias para afinar estratégias em caso de inoperacionalidade do Aeroporto da Madeira.
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Nigeria
Man converts friends’ N100m recharge card money to personal use
A 30-year-old man, Adamu Yusuf, has been accused of converting to personal use the N100m he was given by his three business partners to buy GSM recharge cards for sale. He was, on Friday in Kano, remanded in prison over the alleged N100m fraud on the orders of a Kano ...
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Nigeria
IG inaugurates panel to probe police promotion scandal
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has set up a Special Investigation Panel to investigate alleged corruption in the ongoing police promotion exercise. The panel was set up, sequel to complaints and allegations credited to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Misau, who ...
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Russia USA Nigeria
Russia hopes U.S will not meddle in 2018 Elections – Lavrov
Russia hopes that the United States will not meddle in its elections in 2018, after groundless accusations that Moscow interfered in the U.S vote, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Friday. “I hope that after all groundless accusations against us that the acuteness of this issue for the U.S establishment ...
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Nigeria
Gunmen kill one, abduct filling station owner in Nasarawa
The Nasarawa State Police Command said on Friday gunmen had killed one person and abducted a businessman in Keffi. The command’s Spokesman, DSP Kennedy Idirisu, told journalists on Friday in Lafia that the gunmen stormed a Mobil filling station in Keffi on Wednesday night and shot sporadically before whisking away ...
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Nigeria
NCC withdraws approval for Glo overload promotions
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has ordered the management of Globacom Ltd to immediately suspend the implementation of the Glo Overload Promotion from its network. The regulatory body said the suspension became necessary given the fact that Globacom Nigeria Limited has been implementing the regulatory approval in breach. The Commission ...
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Algeria
La solution de notre agriculture doit passer par la réorganisation de l’exploitation agricole
Depuis le 1er juin, plus de 1600 incendies ont été recensés par les services de la direction des forêts. Bilan : 14 310 ha ravagés. Les agriculteurs ont demandé compensation ; ils ont eu gain de cause mais pas en numéraire. En effet, l’Etat a promis de restituer leurs biens. L’expert ...
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Israele
WeWork buys Israeli startup Unomy
The Tel Aviv based company will improve WeWork's enterprise sales by enhancing data collection and providing leads to potential customers.
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Malta
The market economy
There are many who believe that governments should intervene as little as possible in the operation of the market, as the market is capable to find its own equilibrium. Interventions create inefficiencies that would eventually be a burden on the taxpayer. I tend to subscribe to such an idea with ...