• Nigeria

    Lagos evicts retired PS, others from homes

    …govt action inhuman – Victims Gbenro Adeoye A former Permanent Secretary, a former Surveyor General of Lagos State and seven other families of retired civil servants were on Friday forcibly evicted from the homes allocated to them by the government at the Alausa Quarters II, Central Business District, Ikeja. Residents ...

  • Nigeria

    Security guard on N25,000 salary steals N24.4m, threatens boss with whistle-blowing

    Kunle Falayi On May 6, businessman and resident of Gwarimpa Housing Estate, FCT, Abuja, Benedict Emmanuel, noticed that a stack of foreign currency he kept in his house had disappeared. But little did he know that his good-natured security guard, 40-year-old Alfred Andrew, a Bauchi State indigene, had suddenly become ...

  • Nigeria

    Police recover rifle of missing cop, as family demands

    Kunle Falayi Six months after Musa Sunday, an Inspector with the Lagos State Police Command went missing while on official duty, police authorities have recovered his rifle but not his body. This has become another reason for his distraught family to call on the police to intensify efforts to recover ...

  • USA

    'My conscience is clean,' says Joseph Muscat

    Updated 8.55pm Joseph Muscat says he does not fear the law enacted by his own government to remove the time-bar on corruption cases involving politicians, because he has a clean conscience.Speaking in Kalkara this evening, the Labour leader said any politician involved in corruption would not be able to escape the ...

  • Malta

    MSE Share Index drops to a fresh 4-month low

    The MSE Share Index moved lower for the fourth consecutive day as it slipped by a further 0.51% to a fresh four-month low of 4,644.316 points. Trading volumes dropped notably as only €0.11 million worth of shares changed hands compared to just over €1 million yesterday. Week-on-week, the Index lost ...

  • Malta

    Economic sentiment up in May

    Business conditions remained buoyant, with the Bank’s Business Conditions Index (BCI) continuing to signal above normal activity levels in April, the Central Bank of Malta reported today in its latest Economic Update, based on information available up to May 9. Economic sentiment increased marginally during the month, driven by improved confidence ...

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    McDonald’s licencee Premier Capital exceeds €200 million turnover in 2016

    Premier Capital plc, the Maltese-owned developmental licencee for McDonald’s in six European markets, has registered turnover in excess of €200 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. Turnover for the year more than doubled year-on-year following the acquisition of the Romanian market in January 2016.Thanks to its team of ...

  • Malta

    Updated: Woman receives voting document with someone else's photo; PM reacts

    A woman has received a voting document for the upcoming general election which has all her details in place but for the most important of all: the photo does not show her, but someone else.The Malta Independent has seen both the ID card and the voting document of the woman ...

  • Malta

    'We published 100 proposals in the manifesto, and all PL could do was send a letter' - Busuttil

    PN Leader Simon Busuttil criticised his counterpart for sending a letter to Gozitan social partners to discuss proposals today, when the PN had already presented an entire personalised manifesto for the island.Dr Busuttil, who was speaking at a political activity in Ghajnsielem in Gozo, thanked the President of 'Ideat' in ...

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    Watch: Only real polls are the ones published after 3 June, Muscat tells crowd in Kalkara

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that the only and real important statistics will be those published after 3 June. When asked on the polls being published by the independent media, Dr Muscat said that the real polls will be those on 3 June.Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the people of ...