• Brasile USA

    Queda do petróleo afetará pouco contas federais, diz especialista

    Um dos principais fatores que ajudou a melhorar a arrecadação em 2018 perdeu força perto do fim do ano. O pagamento de royalties de petróleo deverá cair em novembro e dezembro por causa da queda na cotação internacional do barril. Apesar de uma das principais fontes de recursos para o ...

  • Nigeria

    Sovereign Trust Insurance Targets Increased Business In 2019

    Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc is targeting to surpass its over N10.1 billion insurance business it generated in 2018 financial year, next year. Speaking at the 2019 management retreat/budget session of the company in Lagos recently, managing director/chief executive officer, Mr. Olaotan Soyinka urged his colleagues in management to bring to ...

  • Nigeria

    Dangote Boosting Investments In Agriculture

    The importance of Agriculture cannot be over-emphasised in Africa and particularly in Nigeria. Nigeria is blessed with a wide variety of agricultural potentials, ranging from varieties of crops to varieties of animals and plants and natural agricultural-supportive factors like forests, waters, sands and most of all human resources that are ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘$600m Iron Ore Investment Will Create 3,500 Jobs ‘

    Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed has said the planned investment of $600 million (N183 billion) in an integrated iron ore mining processing and steel production plant in Kaduna state will create 3,500 direct jobs. The Finance Minister also claimed that the steel plant will generate 36 megawatts of electricity ...

  • Nigeria

    CBN, Others Set To Launch National Microfinance Bank

    As part of efforts to enable speedy disbursement of its several intervention funds including the Agribusiness/Small and Medium Enterprises Investment Scheme (AGSMEIS), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it will in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) start the operation of a national ...

  • Nigeria

    PENGASSAN To Atiku: We Won’t Accept Sale Of Refineries

    Oil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have warned politicians and other stakeholders who are already propagating sales of the nation’s refineries that such move is not acceptable to Labour as well as Nigerian workers Apparently referring to the declaration ...

  • Nigeria

    CBN targets youths in new loan policy

    THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bankers’ Committee have agreed to set up a committee headed by  Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of commercial banks to create a strategy that will stimulate lending in the domestic economy. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele broke the news yesterday at the end of ...

  • Senegal

    Près de 8000 milliards pour le Programme triennal d'investissements

    Dakar 9 déc (APS) - Les députés sénégalais ont adopté samedi le projet de loi portant approbation du Programme triennal d'investissements publics (PTIP) d'un coût global de 6754, 941 milliards de francs CFA sur la période 2019-2021, a constaté l'APS. Dakar 9 déc (APS) - Les députés sénégalais ont adopté ...

  • USA

    Kushner ‘advises Saudi crown prince’

    The U.S. president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has continued to have private conversations with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (M.B.S.) following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The New York Times reported on Dec. 8.

  • Spagna

    Examinadores de Tráfico vuelven a la huelga para pedir un aumento retributivo

    Madrid, 9 dic (EFE).- Los examinadores de Tráfico han convocado para mañana y hasta el día 21 una huelga después de que no se haya reflejado en la nómina de noviembre el incremento retributivo en el complemento específico que se acordó en su día y que está recogido en la ...