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Nigeria
Why Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, others can’t access N64.8b UBE cash
To enable them access the N64.8 billion Universal Basic Education (UBE) funds with ease, the 36 governors have started to lobby President Muhammadu Buhari to amend the Universal Basic Education Act 2004. The governors are demanding amendment to a clause in the law which makes it compulsory for every state ...
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Nigeria
AMCON to lease seized property to bridge funding gap
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) may introduce the “real-estate investment scheme” by the end of the year to raise money to meet its bond repayments, its Chief Executive Officer Ahmed Kuru has said. Kuru told Bloomberg that the agency plans to sell the properties when the economy improves ...
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Nigeria
A Brief On New Chief Executives Of Education Agencies As They Assume Duty
The Federal Ministry of Education, yesterday in Abuja, inaugurated the newly appointed heads of 17 parastatals and agencies under its purview at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the appointment of the 17 new chief executives of parastatals and agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education on ...
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Brasile
Comércio nacional espera queda de 9,4% nas vendas para Dia dos Pais
Estudo divulgado pela Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC) para as vendas no Dia dos Pais, 14 de agosto, prevê queda no faturamento de 9,4% no país em comparação a igual período do ano passado, embora com um movimento de cerca de R$ 4,2 bilhões ...
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Algeria
GAFTA: Algeria shows trade deficit in 2015
ALGIERS- Algeria's balance of trade with the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) showed a deficit of USD351 million in 2015, against a surplus of one billion dollars in 2014, the National Agency for Foreign Trade Promotion (ALGEX) told APS. Algerian exports to GAFTA countries dropped by more than ...
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USA
Obama: Ride the tide, or drown
Defying popular opinion in his party, Obama thinks America needs to join Trans-Pacific Partnership - or be swept under the global economy.
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Argentina
La Argentina y Brasil cierran acuerdos para buscar nuevos mercados y agilizar el comercio
Bilateral
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Turchia
Cleansing intestines, again…
There are concerns in Turkey but mostly abroad regarding the compliance of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government with supremacy of law, justice, norms and principles of democratic governance in what was presented by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the counter-coup against an attempted coup by a religious brotherhood
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Regno Unito
Bank of England set to axe rates to record low 0.25%
LONDON - The Bank of England is expected to slash interest rates to a record-low 0.25 percent this week and could pump more stimulus into the economy as it battles the fallout from Britain's vote to leave the EU, economists say.
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Thailandia
SET down 1.32 points at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.09% at the start of trade this morning.