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Nigeria
Customs seizes N108m imported poultry products
Gibson Achonu, Owerri The Area Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone C Owerri, Mohammed Garba, has said that the Unit, on October 31, intercepted a DAF Truck loaded with 11,315 cartons of imported frozen poultry products with Duty Paid Value of N108,624,000.00. This was said to be ...
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Nigeria
Senate, budget minister trade blames over 2017 budget
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The preparation of the 2017 budget suffered another setback at the Senate on Thursday, as the upper chamber of the National Assembly took a swipe at the executive for blaming lawmakers for the delay in the process. The Senate specifically criticised the Minister for Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, ...
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Egitto
Dollar scarcity: Egypt’s central bank floats pound
Egypt floated the country’s pound Thursday as part of a raft of reforms, after a dollar crunch and exorbitant black market trade threatened to grind some imports to a halt. The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is rolling out an austerity programme and seeking billions in support from abroad ...
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Spagna
Economía/Empresas.- (Ampl.) Ferrovial logra una nueva autopista en EE.UU. por 3.000 millones
Se refuerza en este mercado al sumar su sexta autopista en el país MADRID, 3 (EUROPA PRESS)
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Myanmar
Telenor shifts Myanmar focus to data services
YANGON - Norwegian telecoms company Telenor will focus on improving data services in Myanmar, the head of the local business said on Wednesday, as an era of rapid subscriber growth following the opening up of the economy has ended.
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Giappone
Fujifilm to buy Takeda’s research chemical arm: sources
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. will purchase Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s research chemical unit for roughly ¥200 billion ($1.94 billion) to improve its medical business, sources familiar with the plan said Thursday. Last month, Fujifilm made a successful bid for Wako Pure Chemical Industries Ltd., Japan’s top reagent maker, the sources said, noting ...
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Cina Giappone
Japanese, Chinese business execs get behind China’s Silk Road initiative
Leaders from major Japanese and Chinese companies agreed at a two-day meeting to cooperate in promoting the Silk Road economic belt, a project by the Chinese government also known as the One Belt, One Road initiative. During the so-called CEO summit in Beijing, which ended Wednesday, some of the participants ...
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Etiopia
Asking Ethiopians to Trade Liberty for Security Is a False Choice
[Addis Fortune] It has been a month of complete shutdown of mobile Internet, data and social media access in Ethiopia. While in the past it has been common practice by the government to block certain websites deemed as enemy of the state, this month's blanket shutdown of Internet services affecting ...
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Etiopia
Iconic Ethiopia Hotel to Be Demolished
[Addis Fortune] Ethiopia Hotel and the adjacent Bego Adragot building are to be torn down within the next month. Belayneh Kinde, the import export mogul, bought Ethiopia Hotel in 2010 for 92 million Br. He now has plans to tear down the three star hotel and erect a new 60 ...
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Nigeria
NLNG awards 10 overseas PG scholarships
Nigeria LNG Limited has awarded 3,053 scholarships to Nigerian students. The latest set of 10 beneficiaries – among whom is a visually impaired female Law Graduate from Bonny Island, NLNG’s primary host community, – were awarded the Overseas Post Graduate Scholarships at a ceremony hosted recently in Port Harcourt. The ...