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Nigeria
Premium Pension Offers Free Eye Surgery To Kaduna Indigenes
BY ZAKA KHALIQ, Lagos Premium Pension Limited in partnership with a non-governmental organisation (NGO)-Charity to Cheer Foundation, sponsored a free eye cataract surgery to 75 aged and indigent persons in Zaria, Kaduna state. This, the Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) said, was part of its ongoing corporate social responsibility (CSR) ...
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Nigeria
Africa Must Start Developing Own COVID-19 Vaccines – Okonjo-Iweala
By Kingsley Alu, Abuja The director-general, World Trade Organisation ( WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said Africa needs to create a “roadmap” for boosting the continent’s capacity to eventually produce COVID-19 vaccines. The WTO DG said it has become an emergency as the continent lags in its efforts to vaccinate ...
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Nigeria
CBN’s Development Financing Creates 325,936 Jobs, 30,164 Projects
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja and BUKOLA IDOWU, Lagos Development finance interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in five sectors of the Nigerian economy has helped to create jobs for 325,936 through funding of 30,164 projects across the country, LEADERSHIP data collation has shown. The apex bank recorded that ...
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Nigeria Danimarca
Denmark Takes The Law Into Own Hands?
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, something with significant but far-reaching diplomatic implications happened in security circles, particularly in the maritime security sphere. Denmark, a tiny European community of 5.3m people, less than the size and population of Rivers State in Nigeria, resolved to send a frigate to patrol and police ...
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Brasile Portogallo
Informação e planejamento são chaves para profissionalizar negócios
Informação e planejamento são as palavras-chaves para quem decide empreender, seja por necessidade ou por oportunidade de negócio. Colocar no papel informações básicas sobre o mercado consumidor e os custos são essenciais para alinhar as expectativas e garantir a sustentabilidade de uma empresa no longo prazo, em meio à concorrência. E ...
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Brasile
Caixa assina acordo de patrocínio com projeto paralímpico
Centro Esportivo Almirante Adalberto Nunes (Cefan) fica no Rio de Janeiro e é vinculado à Marinha Brasileira
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Cina
Think Covid’s Messed Up Your Travel Plans? Try Getting Into China.
To keep the virus out, Beijing has enacted some of the world’s toughest border controls. Lives have been upended, and business has been disrupted.
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Brasile Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
In-depth: 30 years ago, Mercosur’s creation put an end to the historic tensions between Brazil and Argentina
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - This month marks 30 years since the presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, meeting in Asunción, signed the document creating Mercosur. From this act, a regional bloc was born, which today, if it were a single country, would emerge as the 9th largest economy ...
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Cina
Global investors seek freeze on China chip champion’s foreign assets
Tsinghua Unigroup’s debt woes hit Xi Jinping’s push for semiconductor self-reliance
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Regno Unito
Johnson lobbies EU leaders in bid to avert vaccine export blocks
Brussels rejects London’s claim of contractual right to supply from AstraZeneca plant in Netherlands