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Kenya
Kenya: Your cheap suit and kitambi' doesn't qualify you as a sponsor'
If you're in the game and do not meet the following outlined requirements, kindly keep off
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USA
Trump says he will pull US out of TPP 'on day one'. What is the TTP?
Trump described the TPP trade deal as a "potential disaster" for the US.
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Cina Perù
China Attempts to Take the Initiative in Global Trade Order
The China-led Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific is fast emerging as a new trade framework replacing the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. At the APEC summit meeting closed in Lima, Peru, on November 20, the leaders of the 21 APEC member countries reached a consensus to launch a joint study ...
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Regno Unito
Samsung-AstraZeneca JV initiates clinical trials of Rituxan biosimilar in Korea
Archigen Biotech Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture between Samsung BioLogics and UK-based AstraZeneca, has initiated the clini
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Nigeria
$1.6bn fraud: EFCC re-arraigns Diezani’s ally, Omokore, others
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday re-arraigned an ally of a former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Jide Omokore, and others on nine counts of criminal diversion of about $1.6bn alleged to be part of proceeds of the sales of petroleum products belonging to the Federal ...
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Nigeria
Driver stabs in-law for raping two-year-old daughter
Olaleye Aluko The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a commercial driver, Saheed Wahab, for allegedly stabbing his in-law, Yisa Aweda, in the Orile area of the state. Our correspondent gathered that Wahab stabbed 40-year-old Aweda because he reportedly caught him raping his (Wahab’s) two-year-old daughter. PUNCH Metro learnt that ...
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USA Nigeria
U.S to quit Pacific trade deal
President-elect Donald Trump said the United States will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video message outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January. The TPP trade deal was signed by ...
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Egitto Nigeria
Egypt court quashes Morsi life sentence
Egypt’s highest appeal court has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The Court of Cassation ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organisations, the BBC reports. Last week, the court quashed a death sentence handed ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria’s Economy Slips Further Into Recession
Nigeria’s economy further receded in the third quarter, with a 2.24 per cent contraction in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while real GDP expanded for the second consecutive quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said yesterday. According to latest data, real GDP, unadjusted for seasonality increased by 8.99 percent quarter ...
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Nigeria
CBN Denies Plan To Freeze Dom Accounts
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied claims that it was planning to confiscate funds in domiciliary accounts of individuals, saying the claim was “false”. The CBN also said yesterday that it does not have any plan to amend the nation’s Foreign-Exchange Act to sanction anyone found hoarding foreign ...