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Brasile
Justiça cassa domiciliar e Abdelmassih deverá voltar à prisão
A pedido do Ministério Público de São Paulo, a Justiça voltou a cassar a permanência de Roger Abdelmassih, de 73 anos, em detenção domiciliar. Com a decisão, o ex-médico deverá retornar à prisão. Leia mais notícias em Brasil Há uma semana, Abdelmassih havia perdido o direito à prisão domiciliar, de acordo com ...
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Nigeria
FG sets up N15bn fund for Niger Delta
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Federal Government has set up N15bn industrial reactivation fund in the Niger Delta partnership with the private sector. The Minister of Niger Delta, Pastor Usani Uguru, disclosed this on Thursday in a statement by the ministry’s Director of Press, Marshal Gundu. Uguru reportedly spoke in Imo ...
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Nigeria
When sense goes sour
PERSPECTIVE Reading a recent attack on the person of Dr Dakuku Adol Peterside, Director-General, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, by Governor Nyesom Wike, through a proxy, Simeon Nwakudu, I felt obliged to render a voluntary duty, to state the facts in a simple, unambiguous manner, and next, leave ...
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Nigeria
UNICEF, EU battle water-borne diseases in Bayelsa
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is worried about water-borne diseases in the country especially in the Niger Delta region. The UN interventionist agency is particularly concerned that lack of access to potable water has led to deaths among infants. UNICEF in partnership with the European Union (EU) is deploying ...
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Nigeria
Between Nigeria’s Ailing Economy And War Of Attrition
It was a war of attrition during the week as former President Goodluck Jonathan and the presidency engaged in heated verbal exchange over who did what in forging the piteous fate of the country’s ailing economy. In this report, JONATHAN NDA- ISAIAH examines the issues raised. Former President Goodluck Jonathan ...
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Nigeria
New Benin Transit Vehicles’ Tariff Threatens Nigeria’s Auto Investments
By YUSUF BABALOLA, The federal government tends to lose more revenue and investment over the recent slash of charges on transit vehicles following the decision of the government of Benin Republic last month to approve the reduction by 27 per cent. While the development has already set in tension ...
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USA
Anthony Buttigieg says Godfrey Farrugia as PD leader would not be 'meritocracy'
Anthony Buttigieg, who yesterday confirmed that he would be contesting the post of PD leader, believes that a bid by Godfrey Farrugia would be a disservice to the party's founders. "I admire Marlene Farrugia for her guts and ability to be the only effective opposition to this current government. However, I ...
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Regno Unito
Businesses have not changed strategic planning due to Brexit
A majority of businesses are yet to change their strategic planning due to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, a survey of chief financial officers showed. Big businesses were vocal in the run-up to the referendum in June 2016 that a vote to leave the EU could hit investment and ...
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Egitto
Egypt’s first bitcoin exchange to begin trading this month
Egypt’s first bitcoin exchange will go live later this month, the founders of Bitcoin Egypt said, linking the Middle East’s most populous country with a cryptocurrency that has surged in value in recent months. Many governments around the world are still mulling how to regulate and classify bitcoin, a volatile digital ...
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Cina India USA
FIRST Travel: Tibet - A land of revelations
Tibet is a series of stories stitched together by moments that are so ethereal that they feel like epiphanies. That's how I picture things, when I close my eyes, as a kaleidoscope of revelations and sights gleaned from a dozen journeys in Tibet over the span of a decade. I ...