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Nigeria
Agrictech Coy Bags Int’l Quality Award For Improving Agriculture
BY AUGUSTINE AGBO, Abuja Farm4Me, Nigeria’s leading agritech company, has bagged Africa’s Leading Quality Farm Equipment Sales & Rental Service Provider of the Year award 2021. The feat was recorded at the 7th African Quality Achievement Awards 2021, held in Lagos. The award, organised by World Quality Alliance ...
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Cina
FOREIGN: China’s Foreign Trade Sees Stable, Improved Performance In Q1 2021
AGENCY REPORT China’s foreign trade got off to a good start at the beginning of the country’s 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) period, with the total volume of imports and exports of goods reaching 8.47 trillion yuan (about $1.31 trillion) in the first quarter of 2021, up 29.2 percent year on ...
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Nigeria
True Federalism Not Negotiable, Says Makinde
BY ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has said that true federalism was no longer negotiable in the face of the myriad of challenges facing the country. The governor, who stated this while receiving a delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development ...
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USA
FOREIGN: US Lawmakers Urge Maintaining Israeli Aid Without Preconditions
More than 300 US lawmakers, in a letter have called on Washington to continue aid to Israel without conditions or reduction, a week after progressive Democratic legislators proposed a bill seeking to regulate American assistance in an effort to stop human rights abuse against Palestinians. The letter addressed to the ...
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USA Regno Unito
Biden Set To Make Maiden Foreign Trip In June to UK, Belgium
President Joe Biden will embark upon his first foreign trip in June, the White House said on Friday, with plans to attend the Group of 7 summit in southwestern England and diplomatic meeting in Brussels Biden hasn’t yet ventured outside the United States since becoming president, as COVID-19 limited travel ...
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Russia
FOREIGN: Navalny Ends Hunger Strike After Being Seen by Civilian Doctors
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny said on Friday he would begin gradually ending a hunger strike he had called to demand proper medical care, suggesting that support inside Russia and the West had got him much of what he needed. Navalny announced an end to his hunger strike on ...
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Nigeria
President Buhari Restores Ownership Of OML 123, Others To NNPC
By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah In line with the current administration’s commitment to the rule of law, fairness and enabling a stable business climate for investment, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the restoration of the leases on OMLs 123, 124, 126 and 137 to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which is ...
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Portogallo
Infraestruturas de Portugal passa de lucro a prejuízo de 56 milhões de euros em 2020
A IP registou em 2020 um EBITDA (resultado antes de juros, impostos, depreciação e amortização) de 445 ME, uma redução de 25% face a 2019, de acordo com o documento.
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Brasile
Wajngarten entra na mira da CPI da Pandemia após criticar Pazuello
Segundo o ex-Srcom, o acordo para aquisição de vacinas não avançou por incompetência e ineficiência dos gestores da Saúde Ex-titular da Secretaria de Comunicação da Presidência (Secom), o publicitário Fabio Wajngarten deve ser um dos primeiros nomes a ser convocado pela Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) da ...
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Portogallo
Resgate corre contra o tempo para encontrar submarino indonésio desaparecido
Navios da marinha indonésia correm contra o tempo para encontrar o submarino que desapareceu há dois dias e concentram as buscas ao redor da ilha de Bali. A embarcação tem menos de um dia de oxigênio para seus 53 tripulantes. O KRI Nanggala 402 desapareceu após submergir ...