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Regno Unito
Brexit Deal ‘Will Cost UK £100bn’ By 2030, Research Suggests
The government’s Brexit deal would leave the UK £100bn a year worse off by 2030, analysis by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has claimed. The study commissioned by the People’s Vote, which wants a second referendum, said GDP would shrink by 3.9% annually. “This is the ...
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Nigeria
Kaduna Has Benefited Over N13.5bn From FG’s Social Investment Programme – Finance Minister
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, has disclosed that Kaduna State since inception of the Federal Government’s National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), has benefited over ₦13.5 billion, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari is leading the revolutionary process of unprecedented infrastructural development and the largest social investment programme in ...
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Nigeria
Investors Pass Vote Of Confidence On Cooperative Managers
Investors and members of the Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS) have expressed optimism on the management of the cooperative, saying handlers of their investment have met more than expectations, igniting their confidence to increase their stakes in agro business under the platform. The shareholders who made this known ...
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Russia Ucraina
Protests In Kiev After Russia Seizes Ukraine Ships Off Crimea
Ukraine’s parliament is to decide whether to bring in martial law as anger over the capture of three of its naval vessels by Russia spilled into the streets overnight. Protesters gathered outside the Russian embassy in Ukraine’s capital Kiev after news of the seizure off the Crimean Peninsula emerged on ...
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Nigeria
NNL Congress Wants Gombe, Kogi Utd, Others Promoted To NPFL
The Annual General Assembly meeting, (AGM) of the Nigerian National League, (NNL), has proposed a direct promotion for all eight qualified teams from its four groups to the elite league, Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL). Rising from their Annual General Meeting (AGM) held during the weekend in Abuja, the NNL ...
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Israele
Artists burn artworks in Tel Aviv square to protest ‘cultural loyalty’ bill
Organizers called on artists ‘to sacrifice [their artworks] as victims of the loyalty law,’ an initiative from Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev that could restrict content that is critical of the state
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Sudafrica
Africa: Making Africa Investment-Friendly
[Guardian] A report that African political leaders and their business counterparts rose from a meeting recently in Johannesburg and resolved to dismantle all disincentives to sustainable investment in the continent has raised a glimmer of hope for the rising continnent.
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India
Zimbabwe: India Keen to Invest in the Country
[The Herald] India is prepared to invest big in all of Zimbabwe's economic sectors and has challenged the Government to swiftly submit projects so that the world's sixth-largest economy can assist the country to achieve rapid economic growth.
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Israele
Business in Brief: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange releases fear index
TASE releases fear index ■ Apax fund looking to buy Osher Ad ■ Tel Aviv ends down, Matomy plummets 44 percent
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Cina USA
The US, China and Wall Street’s man in the middle
The Trump presidency’s tough approach on trade is weakening the role of executives such as Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman