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Nigeria
Lagos Assembly May Pass 2019 Budget Soon
LEADERSHIP: There are indications that members of Lagos State House of Assembly will on resumption from Easter break by April 26, deliberate and pass the contentious 2019 Budget of the state. LEADERSHIP findings show that the 2019 Appropriation Bill has been presented to the Committee on Budget and Finance, and ...
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Nigeria
Presidency Rebuts Mamza’s Allegation, Says ‘Buhari, Not sleeping on duty’
LEADERSHIP: Presidency on Monday described as unfair the comment by the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Rt. Rev. Fr. Stephen Mamza describing President Muhammadu as ”sleeping on duty as Commander-in-Chief.” Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement in Abuja on ...
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Nigeria
Insecurity And Its Impact On Northern Nigeria
LEADERSHIP: Northern Nigeria is in dire need of direct foreign and local investments. The north with its arable lands good for agriculture and abundance of solid minerals have not attracted much investment due to myriad of problems, most important of which is insecurity. According to a report by the National ...
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Brasile Portogallo
Government Wants to Massively Raise Income Tax Exemption to R$4’990
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In the wake of the House of Representatives, the Federal Senate also intends to vote changes in the Brazilian tax system. MDB leader’s bill in the Senate, Eduardo Braga (Amazonas State), increases the range of exemption from Personal Income Tax ...
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Brasile Portogallo
Prisoners Spend Days Handcuffed in Vehicles in Front of Police Stations in Porto Alegre
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The precincts on duty in Porto Alegre have again maintained prisoners in cars. On Sunday night (21st) there were 12 people detained until 6:30 pm in police cars parked in front of the Police Palace, where the 2nd Police Station ...
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Brasile
Infrastructure is now the hot Story in Brazilian Commodities
By Bloomberg RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The man in charge of Brazilian sugar giant Cosan Ltd. has little interest in talking about the sweetener. These days, he’s all about railways, writes Bloomberg in its latest report. Cosan is controlled by 69-year-old Rubens Ometto, one of the sixty most powerful ...
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Regno Unito Italia
Un kit di sementi made in Italy per sopravvivere alla Brexit
Paolo Arrigo, proprietario della Franchi Seeds di Londra, ha lanciato l’idea di coltivare in proprio le verdure per evitare la corsa al cibo in caso di no deal ...
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Brasile
Carne brasileira pode ampliar espaço no mercado chinês, diz ministra
A ministra da Agricultura, Tereza Cristina, disse hoje (22) que a peste suína na China pode oferecer uma oportunidade para o Brasil ampliar seu mercado de carnes. A China é hoje a maior produtora de carne suína do mundo. “Hoje, com o problema que vem se agravando lá, vemos grande oportunidade ...
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Brasile
Subsídios da União caem pelo terceiro ano consecutivo em 2018
Pelo terceiro ano seguido, os subsídios da União caíram. Segundo números divulgados hoje (22) pelo Ministério da Economia, essas despesas totalizaram R$ 314,2 bilhões no ano passado, o equivalente a 4,6% do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB, soma dos bens e serviços produzidos no país). Instrumentos que reduzem preços ao consumidor ou ...
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Brasile
Mais de 13 milhões ainda não enviaram declaração do Imposto de Renda
A oito dias do fim do prazo, cerca de 13,5 milhões de brasileiros ainda não acertaram as contas com o Leão. Até as 17h de hoje (22), a Receita Federal recebeu 16.964.301 declarações do Imposto de Renda Pessoa Física, o equivalente a 55,6% do esperado para este ano. O prazo ...