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Giappone
Japan may be in hot pursuit of robotics, but on the farm it’s still all about human hands
The country that brought robots to car factories looks set to stay resolutely old-school in agriculture as it seeks to attract more foreign workers to ...
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Kenya
K-Shoe retailer posts Sh9 million loss
Nairobi Business Ventures Ltd, the retailers of shoes and leather products under the K-Shoe brand has posted a Sh9.5 million in losses
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Cina Nigeria
Heritage Bank tackles medical tourism
Heritage Bank Plc, has announced a partnership with Africanmed and the Chinese community in Nigeria aimed at developing the country’s health sector and bringing down the rate of medical tourism by Nigerians. Managing Director/CEO, Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo who disclosed this at the maiden edition Africanmed exhibition of top brands ...
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Nigeria
Alleged $48.4m fraud: Court seizes 38 houses from ex-NSITF boss
A Federal High Court has ordered the interim forfeiture of more than 38 assets and properties traced to a former Chairman of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Dr. Ngozi Olojeme. Olojeme is said to have travelled oversees to avoid prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The ...
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Nigeria
New thinking
•It’s most salutary that Lagos Chief Judge seeks to decongest prisons The effort by the Chief Judge of Lagos state, Justice Opeyemi Oke (CJ) to decongest prisons in Lagos is commendable. Particularly interesting is the promotion of non-custodial sentencing by the CJ. While visiting prisons in Lagos state to release ...
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USA Francia Nigeria
Paris Club Disbursements To States Stand At $5.4bn
A total of 5.4 billion dollars has so far been paid to states by the federal government for settlement of the Paris Club Refund. Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, confirmed the release at a news conference on the state of the economy in Abuja, yesterday. She said that the ...
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USA
Wall Street a picco sui timori di una nuova crisi finanziaria
(Teleborsa) - Pioggia di vendite sul listino USA, che in una giornata semifestiva e dai volumi ridotti, ha chiuso di nuovo in pesante ribasso. Panic selling friability borsa a causa dell'avvio dello...
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Costa Rica
La economía de Costa Rica crece 2.1 por ciento
El sector con mejores números es la construcción, con 6.3%, información y comunicación, con 5.3%.
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Turchia
Turkey not to leave fate of Syrian Kurds to PKK: President
Ankara sees Arabs’ security and peace and the problems Kurds face in Syria as its own business, and the Turkish army is in Syria to give their freedom back, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.
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Turchia
Turkey insists on UN probe into Khashoggi murder
Turkey is working with other countries to carry the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to the United Nations, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Dec. 24.