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USA Nigeria
IMF warns Nigeria, others over rising foreign debts
Oyetunji Abioye, Washington DC The International Monetary Fund has warned Nigeria and other oil-exporting countries over rising foreign debts, saying there is a need to make external borrowings sustainable. The Fund, however, commended Nigeria for the recent reforms aimed at reducing infrastructure gap in the country, adding that it was ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria wins World Bank’s youth development initiative
For the second successive year, Nigeria has won the Ideas for Action initiative, a youth competition on financing for development, which is organised by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. Nigeria’s winning proposal, “Kitovu,” came out tops from among 743 proposals from ...
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USA Nigeria
IMF warns Nigeria, others over rising foreign debt
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned the Federal Government about its rising debt profile, especially of foreign loans. Speaking yesterday at the ongoing World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C, IMF Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department Tobias Adrian, lamented that external borrowing in emerging markets and low-income countries, ...
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Nigeria
Reps Demand Audit Trail Of Stamp Duty Account
By ADEBIYI ADEDAPO, Abuja The House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications has disagreed with some commercial banks over excess charges on the stamp duty of N50 on every N1000 deposit. To this end, the committee insisted that it would work with consultants to audit records of individual banks as well ...
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Italia
Il gioiello Made in Italy torna sotto i riflettori ad Arezzo con Gold/Italy 2017
(Teleborsa) - Tornano in scena nella splendida Arezzo l'oro ed i gioielli, settori tradizionalmente legati al made in Italy ed all'antica arte orafa. Italian Exhibition Group, la...
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USA
Trump's new 'Buy American' rules to challenge Israeli drone's market dominance
New domestic policy is to make it easier for U.S. drone makers to sell their spy planes abroad, while Washington pushes for looser international restrictions on their export
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Colombia Bolivia Venezuela
Ante continuidad de ataques contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos en Colombia, el Subsecretario General de Derechos Humanos urge a su protección
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country: ColombiaDesde comienzos de 2017, ha habido más asesinatos de defensores de derechos humanos, líderes sociales y comunitarios, en particular en áreas anteriormente ocupadas por las FARC-EP.BOGOTA / NUEVA YORK (9 de octubre de 2017). El Subsecretario General de la ONU ...
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USA Bolivia Uruguay
Joint drive to restart stalled progress vital amid growing instability in DR Congo
Source: UN Security Council Country: Democratic Republic of the CongoThe top UN official in DR Congo urged international and regional stakeholders to help the country avert worsening instability by advancing progress on elections and other stalled components of the recent political agreement.SC/13024 Security Council 8067th Meeting (AM) Electoral List in Final Phase of Updating, ...
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Etiopia
Excelling in Foreign Policy
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is implementing a foreign policy that has in fact redeemed the war ravaged Horn of Africa region. As we know, if anything goes wrong in the Horn of Africa region, Ethiopia would be the first to suffer the consequences. The policy it is pursuing now is devised ...
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Etiopia
Sher On Hot Plate, Heavy Tax, Labour Dispute
[Addis Fortune] Sher Ethiopia Plc, one of the largest commercial farms engaged in the production and export of horticultural products, and the Oromia Regional Revenues Authority clutched each other at the neck over a 400 million Br tax settlement issue.