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Thailandia
SET up 8.78 points at opening
Thai stocks opened up 0.58% at the start of trade this morning.
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Nigeria
We will restore Ogoni ecosystem, says Buhari
One-time Lagos State Commissioner for Finance Mr Wale Edun was yesterday in Abuja inaugurated as Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Ogoni Trust Fund. The Governing Council and the Trust Fund are two organs of teh Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), which will drive the clean-up of ...
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Nigeria
CBN resumes dollar sales to BDCs today
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will today resume dollar sales to Bureaux De Change (BDCs) seven months after it stopped the practice. It stopped the sales last January because of what it called dollar scarcity and abuse of operating guidelines. Speaking to The Nation yesterday, Aminu Gwadabe, Association of Bureau De ...
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Nigeria
Nigerians In Diaspora Making Positive Waves – Dabiri-Erewa
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that Diaspora Nigerians are making positive waves all over the world because Diaspora people has become a global force to reckon with. Dabiri-Erewa made the assertion in a keynote speech in Abuja at ...
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Nigeria
Minister Hails Editors, Harps On Balanced Reportage
The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has commended the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) for being part of the ongoing determined efforts to tackle the various challenges facing the country, especially in the area of the economy. Speaking at the All Nigerian Editors Conference (ANEC) 2016 in Port Harcourt ...
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Israele
Business in Brief: Bezeq profit drops as revenues from internet top telephony for first time
Intec plans trial of Accordion Pill with cannabis ingredients; TowerJazz shares rally on strong second quarter; Drug stocks boost Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
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Colombia
Colombia’s New, Legal Drug Barons Focus on Medical Marijuana
Colombia revised a 30-year-old drug law and embraced medical marijuana; now private companies are betting that cannabis could be a market leader.
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Italia
Rome Journal: Roma Women’s Business Plan: Cook Their Way to a Better Life
Eager to build a future for their families outside Rome’s segregated camps, a group called the Gipsy Queens began a cooking business.
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Ghana
Ghana puts on hold 2016 Eurobond issue
Government has put on hold plans to issue its fifth Eurobond which was scheduled to take place next week. Government was seeking to raise 700 million dollars, majority of which was to be used to retire Ghana’s first Eurobond which matures next year [2017]. Finance minister Seth Terkper early this ...
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Ghana
BoG to sanction banks over failure to adopt ‘Instant Pay’
Citi Business News has gathered that the Bank of Ghana has given universal commercial banks up to December 31, 2016 to get hooked to the Ghana Instant Pay (GIP) platform or be hit with sanctions. This comes after the central bank deferred the initial deadline which was 31st August 2016. ...