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Nigeria
Cargo handling: Amaechi to chair town hall meeting
Against the backdrop of a recent audit report revealing that private terminal operators in Nigerian ports lost about N58.9bn to the foreign exchange scarcity, Consumer Price Index, among others, in eight years, a one-day town hall meeting on “Cargo Handling and Port Charges” will hold in Lagos to evaluate the ...
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Nigeria
CBN’s forex policy adjustment not sustainable –Experts
Oyetunji Abioye Economic and financial experts say it is uncertain that the latest policy action on foreign exchange introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria will work. The CBN had on Monday announced a new policy decision aimed at boosting forex supply to end-users in order to ease the pressure ...
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Nigeria
Business returns to seaports, say freight forwarders
Anna Okon Freight forwarders have become busy again. They say that their business has begun to witness a boom in the past two weeks as more vessels return to the seaports, following a month and three weeks’ old ban imposed on importation of cars through the land borders. The National ...
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Nigeria
JAMB fixes UTME for May, scraps scratchcard
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede yesterday said the much-awaited Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will hold in May as part of steps to check malpractices. He also said the agency had handed over 10 officials to the police for investigation in connection with fraud associated ...
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Nigeria
New Forex Policy May Stabilise Banks, Says Fitch
Fitch Ratings, an international rating agency, has expressed optimism that the new policy actions on forex implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may help to ease the foreign currency liquidity pressure faced by the country’s banking sector and also bring about stability in the banks. Specifically, Fitch noted ...
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Nigeria
Naira Firms To N505/$ As Analysts See Increased Confidence
Financial analysts are optimistic that the new foreign exchange policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would further increase the confidence in the Nigerian forex market even as the value of the naira further strengthened at the parallel market. The naira which sold at an all time high of ...
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Thailandia
SET down 2.91 points at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.19% at the start of trade this morning.
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Thailandia
Coffee shops to continue opening after closure surge
The Thai coffee shop business is expected to grow 15-20% this year despite the closure of many cafes in the past year, according to the Specialty Coffee Association of Thailand (SCATH).
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USA Giappone
WHO and partners intensify health response to South Sudan cholera outbreak
Source: World Health Organization Country: South SudanThe outbreak poses a significant threat given the security concerns in affected and at-risk locations and the drastic deterioration of the health care infrastructure.14 February 2017, Juba, South Sudan - Despite the ongoing complex humanitarian crises in South Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO) in ...
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India USA Canada Francia Giappone
New grant to help UNICEF strengthen efforts to tackle cholera in Haiti
Source: UN News Service Country: Haiti, JapanThe $2.6 million grant from Japan will help finance interventions across the island nation with an emphasis on the cholera-prone departments of Center, North, West, Grand'Anse, Sud (South), and Artibonite.22 February 2017 – A new grant from the Government of Japan will allow the United ...