-
Nigeria
Attijariwafa Bank, UBA sign MoU
Two African leading banking groups – Attijariwafa Bank and United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their collaborative efforts in correspondent banking, investment funding, trade finance and project finance on the continent. The framework document, which outlines key areas of cooperation ...
-
Nigeria
No unilateral dollar allocation, says CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied reports that it allocates dollars unilaterally. Its Director, Corporate Communications Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, in a statement at the weekend in Abuja, decried the way some Nigerians chose to disparage those in leadership in total insensitivity to the larger interests of the country’s ...
-
Nigeria
Gidi Blues to screen at Lagos under the Lens
In partnership with Freedom Park Film Club, The directorate of the Lagos @50 Creative Task Force will be launching a new programme, Lagos under the Lens, the film component of the on-going celebration of LAGOS AT 50, tomorrow. Designed to provide opportunity for the motion picture industry to also celebrate ...
-
Nigeria
How sanction on MTN is affecting agencies
These are not the best of times for various agencies in the marketing communications industry. They are grappling with paucity of funds to execute marketing campaigns. Besides, the ongoing regulatory crisis facing telecoms giant MTN Nigeria may have added a scary dimension to agencies’worries, ADEDEJI ADEMIGBUJI reports. Sometime last year, ...
-
Nigeria
Rice farmers seek total ban on sale of foreign rice
Rice farmers have urged state governments to follow the footstep of Ebonyi and ban the sale of foreign rice as a means of boosting local production. Mr Aminu Goronyo, the National President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), made the call in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...
-
Nigeria
Unremitted N450bn: EFCC to grill Jonathan’s ex-ministers, perm secs
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to grill some ex-ministers who served under the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan as well as some serving and ex-permanent secretaries and directors of budget and finance in charge of revenue-generating Ministries Departments and Agencies, The PUNCH has learnt. ...
-
Algeria
Les effets sournois des polluants industriels
Encore plus que par le passé, la problématique et les enjeux de la lutte et la prévention de la pollution industrielle, sous toutes ses formes, manifestes ou perverses, est sérieuse, revêtant un caractère à la fois sociétal, économique et politique. La situation est des plus inquiétantes, et c’est le cas de ...
-
Marocco Francia
«Il y a un manque de rigueur dans l’application des textes règlementaires»
Les rejets industriels, l’amiante, les huiles Askarel ou PCB, les produits phytosanitaires, les insecticides font des ravages, et ce, dans l’indifférence la plus totale. Des données précises à même d’illustrer la gravité de la situation en Algérie ? Le manque de chiffres fiables en termes de tableau de bord et de ...
-
Malta
PN will continue to defend freedom of expression and association - Simon Busuttil
The Nationalist Party will continue to defend freedom of expression and association, although today these carry a different meaning to what they did 30 years ago right in the middle of the political chaos that existed in Malta, Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil said.He was speaking during a commemoration ceremony of ...
-
USA Panama Malta
INDEPTH: Malta does not belong to us anymore but to the few - Mark Anthony Sammut
"Malta does not belong to us anymore but to the few." Dr Mark Anthony Sammut said this while being interviewed by Rachel Attard, News Editor of The Malta Independent, on INDEPTH. He said that the electoral promise of Malta Taghna llkoll was a very important promise because when it satisfied a psychological need ...