• India

    Bank of Baroda in talks to buy Central Bank Of India housing finance arm: report

  • Francia

    IMF boss, Lagarde on trial in France over tycoon case

    IMF chief Christine Lagarde goes on trial in France on Monday over a massive state payout to a flamboyant tycoon when she was finance minister in a case that risks tarnishing her stellar career. Lagarde denies the charges of negligence, arguing she was acting “in the state’s interest” in making ...

  • Nigeria

    Why Nigerians ‘ll become poorer with rising oil prices

    Henry Boyo The price of crude oil has steadily increased beyond $50/barrel after OPEC agreed to cut output by about 1.2 million barrels/day in November 2016. Nigeria’s export revenue prospects will consequently be boosted, if this price trend is sustained, particularly if the youth restiveness in the Niger Delta is ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘Corruption crippling power sector’

    There is high-level corruption among officials, customers and contractors of the electricity distribution companies (DisCos), The Nation has learnt. It was gathered that the workers, mainly those in the Engineering /Technical Units, connive with contractors to buy substandard equipment, such as sub-stations, transformers and wires. The contractors obtained fake local ...

  • Nigeria

    FG To Provide Support For Export Of 200m SIM Cards Offshore

    The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okey Enelamah, has affirmed that the Federal Government will continuing to support Nigeria’s first subscribers identity module, SIM cards manufacturing processing company, SECUREID Limited in its bid to export over 200 million SIM cards yearly to 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Enelamah ...

  • Qatar Nigeria

    Gouvernement-FCE : l’isolationnisme économique algérien s’est acheté un Tchernobyl à Club des Pins

    Le rendez-vous africain d’Alger de la semaine dernière a tout dit en une seule session, la session inaugurale.  Elle a révélé trois constats. L’Algérie de l’entrepreneuriat a bien compris qu’il fallait se lier à l’Afrique. L’Algérie officielle n’est pas prête à laisser les entreprises redessiner le lien au continent. Les ...

  • Germania Malta

    Local newspapers in review

    These are the main stories featured in today's Maltese newspapers: Times of Malta quotes industry sources saying that the decision taken recently by Air Malta's board of directors to stop flights to Frankfurt from next March is a step to ‘please’ Alitalia and lure it to conclude negotiations on buying a ...

  • Malta

    Qormi fightback floors Vittoriosa Stars

    Qormi 3Vittoriosa Stars 1 Qormi scored three goals in the final 23 minutes of the match to overcome Vittoriosa Stars and clinch their fourth successive win. It was an impressive fightback from the Yellow-Blacks who have now put themselves in the reckoning for the fight for promotion as they joined second-placed Mqabba ...

  • Cina USA Taiwan

    Trump says US not necessarily bound by 'one China' policy

    US President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China," questioning nearly four decades of policy in a move likely to antagonize Beijing. Trump's comments on Fox News Sunday came after he prompted a diplomatic protest ...

  • USA Regno Unito Malta

    2016: it’s all about words

    2016 will for long be remembered for the English neologisms coined in the spheres of business and politics. Some have already become hackneyed and will die a slow death over the next few years. Others will persist. English speakers already have a choice of one million words at their disposal ...