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Nigeria
Diaspora Day: Governor Ugwuanyi Honoured For Promoting Foreign Investment
Enugu State Diaspora Community has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for providing the enabling environment and mobilizing indigenes of the state resident abroad for direct foreign investments (FDI) in the state. Speaking on behalf of the Enugu State Diaspora Community when they embarked on an outreach programme in schools across the ...
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Nigeria
IGP Asks 167 Officers To Justify Their Promotion
The inspector-general of police, Alkali Baba Usman, yesterday, kick-started the decoration of about 167 newly promoted police officers. Speaking in Abuja, while decorating the assistant inspector-generals of police, the IGP said “this promotion exercise is a due recognition of the history of professional excellence of all the senior police officers ...
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Nigeria
Ezekwesili, Falana, Oyebode Urge NBA To Defend Rule Of Law
A former minister of education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, human rights lawyers, Femi Falana and Professor Akin Oyebode yesterday called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to lead the crusade for the rights and liberties of Nigerians. They made the call while speaking at the ongoing Law Week of the Lagos ...
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Nigeria
CSOs Ask Buhari To Decline Assent To Electoral Bill
A coalition of 124 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Nigeria on Monday urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to sign the Electoral Bill, 2021 into law, citing various infractions embedded in the proposed bill. A spokesperson for the CSOs, Mrs Vivian Bellonwu of Social Action while addressing journalists in Abuja described ...
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Cuba
Una veintena de países pide a Cuba respetar ‘derechos y libertades’
Una veintena de países, entre ellos varios latinoamericanos, se unieron ayer al gobierno de Estados Unidos para instar a Cuba a respetar los derechos civiles y liberar a las personas detenidas por las protestas inéditas celebradas el 11 de julio en la isla, y que dejaron un muerto, decenas de ...
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USA Nigeria
Former Glencore trader pleads guilty to role in Nigeria bribery scheme
Anthony Stimler admits to money laundering and violating US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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Brasile Argentina
Argentine economy grows close to 10% annually in first half of the year
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Argentina's economy rebounded by 9.7% in the first half of the year, compared to the same period in 2020, according to Orlando Ferreres consulting firm's General Activity Index (IGA). The data shows that activity rebounded in June after the decline registered in May as a ...
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Brasile USA
Brazilian Real: Dollar closes down 0.68% at R$5.1748
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The U.S. dollar closed down on Monday. The currency sales abroad extending to local operations in a day of regained appetite for risk and the eve of the monetary policy decision in the United States. In general, the domestic forex market remains unstable, while investors ...
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Messico
Ricardo apoya a México en su esfuerzo por reducir las emisiones en transporte de carga
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Argentina
Tokio 2020: el calendario de los JJOO del martes 27 de julio para la delegación argentina
El cronograma de los Juegos Olímpicos informa que la Argentina tendrá representación en vela, mountain bike, equitación, vóley playa, ciclismo ruta