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Nigeria
30tn probe: Indicted banks, firms refunded N140bn, Senate panel claims
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tarrifs; and Marine Transport on Wednesday claimed that have recovered over N140bn from banks and companies in its probe into the alleged loss of N30tn in Nigeria’s import and export value chain. It said the recovered funds had been ...
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Nigeria
World Bank denies disagreeing with Adeosun n foreign borrowings
The World Bank Group, yesterday, denied that the Bank disagreed with the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, over the borrowings by the Nigerian Government to stimulate the economy and finance infrastructure projects in the country. A statement from the ministry said the World Bank through the Senior Communications Officer ...
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Portogallo Nigeria
Incêndios: Metade das 500 casas atingidas em Pampilhosa da Serra ficaram destruídas
Os incêndios de domingo "destruíram completamente" 262 casas e atingiram cerca de 500 habitações no concelho de Pampilhosa da Serra, no interior do distrito de Coimbra, disse o presidente da Câmara da vila, José Brito.
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Brasile
Carrefour Brasil abre 17 lojas no 3º tri com foco no formato Express
Foram abertos 10 pontos de venda sob a bandeira de conveniência, que passou a deter 97 lojas no país
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Nigeria
NASS Won’t Legislate Businesses Out Of Existence – Lawmaker
BY GEORGE OKOJIE, Lagos The Chairman House Committee on Information in the House of Representatives, Hon. Odebunmi Olusegun Dokun has said the National Assembly is more committed to making make sure that they enact and pass bills that will make the country a destination for foreign direct investment. Odebunmi who ...
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Francia Algeria
Objectif : Quadrupler la production
Les capacités globales de production pourraient atteindre 13,2 Mt/an en 2020 dans le cas où le complexe El Hadjar atteindrait le niveau de production projeté de 1,2 Mt/an. Le ministère de l’Industrie et des Mines ambitionne de quadrupler le niveau de la production locale dans la filière sidérurgique à l’horizon 2020 ...
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Iran
Netanyahu blasts Iran's foreign minister: Delete your Twitter account
Netanyahu posted a video responding to Zarif's foreign minister's tweet saying all Iranians support the Revolutionary Guard
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Giordania Yemen
Education for 4.5 million Yemeni children under threat
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: YemenThe beginning of the school year has been postponed several times from its usual September start and textbooks and other school materials are in severely short supply. Statement by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa AMMAN, 18 October 2017 - “More than ...
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USA
Somalia hits grim milestone as drought and conflict force one million people to flee
Source: Norwegian Refugee Council Country: SomaliaHalf the population - more than 6.2 million people - now need humanitarian assistance, half of whom are in a crisis situation, and 388,000 children under the age of five are acutely malnourished.Over 1 million people in Somalia have been forced to abandon their homes this ...
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Etiopia
Ethiopia:Commission Foresees FDI Amounting to U.S.$4.5 Billion
[Ethiopian Herald] The Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) discloses that it has set target to secure Foreign Direct Investment /FDI/ amounting to 4.5 billion USD in 2017/18 fiscal year.