• Giappone

    Renewables credited with 28 million-ton drop in Japan utilities’ carbon emissions in 2015

    An association of Japanese electric power companies said Monday that carbon dioxide emissions by its members declined in fiscal 2015 to around 441 million tons, partly due to greater use of renewable energy. The preliminary figure represents a fall of 28 million tons from the previous year, said the Electric ...

  • USA Giappone

    Not for the working class: Trump opens gilded inn steps from White House

    Donald Trump will have an address on Pennsylvania Avenue whether or not he wins November’s election, after his new super-luxury hotel opened on Monday, steps from the White House. Not everyone was applauding his name in large gold letters adorning the 263-room, $212 million Trump International Hotel glinting in the ...

  • Nigeria

    Armed herdsmen are foreigners, says Sultan

    Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday said herdsmen carrying guns and killing people are foreign terrorists bent on causing disunity and threat to peace-loving Nigerians. The President General, of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) added that some ‘’ bad eggs’’ had infiltrated the Fulani ...

  • Nigeria

    Bakers urge Buhari to grant import waiver

    • Threatens to down tools The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN)  has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to grant import waiver to importers of baking materials to reduce the high cost of bread inputs. The group lamented that many of its members have since closed their ...

  • Nigeria

    NEPC eyes $30b from non-oil exports

    • Farmers advised to embrace mushroom farming The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has  said its Zero Oil Plan has the potential to increase earnings from non-oil sector to $30billion over the next five years. Its Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr Olusegun Awolowo who spoke during a visit to the ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘More funding for housing sector ’ll stimulate economy’

    Financing Nigeria’s housing deficit, estimated at between 17 to 18 million units would help to stimulate the economy, experts have said. Stakeholders in the industry insist that with the economy slipping into recession in the second quarter, providing funding to bridge the housing deficit would help to create jobs, deepen ...

  • Nigeria

    External reserves shed $1bn in five weeks

    Oyetunji Abioye The country’s external reserves have been depleted by $1bn in the last five weeks, latest statistics from the Central Bank of Nigeria have showed. This follows the CBN’s almost daily intervention at the interbank/official foreign exchange market in recent weeks, as chronic dollar shortage continues to weigh on ...

  • Nigeria

    Technology solution, key to business sustainability, says BCX

    Ozioma Ubabukoh THE Business Connexion has stressed the need for small and big enterprises in Nigeria to drive their businesses with technology solutions, if they must remain relevant in business during this period of economic recession. The company is an Information Technology systems integrator company, with operations in Europe, Middle ...

  • Israele

    Business in Brief: Perrigo shares jump after activist investor attacks management

    Nano Dimension first company to get analyst coverage under TASE program; Planned bond sale values Altshuler Shaham at 1 billion shekels; Taro subpoenaed in U.S. antitrust probe; Tel Aviv shares get end-of-the-day lift from a higher Wall Street.

  • Brasile

    Meirelles defende ajuste fiscal e PEC 241 contra recessão e desemprego

    O ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles, disse hoje (12), em São Paulo, disse que o maior problema do país é a recessão e o desemprego e voltou a afirmar que a solução para o problema é o ajuste fiscal e a Proposta de Emenda Constitucional (PEC) 241, que limita o ...