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Brasile
Investimento direto dos EUA no Brasil em compasso de espera
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Nigeria
NECA opposes stamp duty payment on share capital
Ife Ogunfuwa To encourage the establishment of more companies in the country, the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association has called on the Federal Government to stop the payment of stamp duty on share capital. The association suggested that a minimum flat fee should be introduced for the stamp duty payment, while ...
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Nigeria
Capital inflows into Nigeria fall by 46.86%
Stanley Opara The total capital importation into Nigeria declined by 46.86 per cent (year-on-year) from $9.6bn in 2015 to $5.1bn in 2016. The total capital importation for Q4 2016 was estimated at $1.55bn, compared to $1.82bn in Q3 2016. Loans (other investments), according to a report by Meristem Research, constituted ...
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Nigeria
NLC, TUC endorse Bayelsa’s ‘no work, no pay’ policy
Simon Utebor The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, Bayelsa State chapter and their affiliate bodies have endorsed the ‘No work, no pay’ policy of the state government, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The endorsement was said to be a part of measures geared towards making the public service more ...
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Nigeria
Southern Kaduna: Community leaders seek offenders’ arrest
Godwin Isenyo Leaders of non-indigenes in Kaduna State have called on security operatives to arrest and prosecute perpetrators of the Southern Kaduna killings. The leaders, under the aegis of Community Leaders Forum, said unless the perpetrators were fished out and punished in accordance with the law of the land, the ...
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Nigeria
Fond Memories Of Kofar Mata’s 500-Year-Old Dye Pits
A lot has been said about the dye-pits of Kofar Mata in the ancient city of Kano. In this report, EJURA ADAMA who visited the sites and interacted with the men behind the age long trade of dyeing, reports on the spectacular nature of the dye-pits. Beyond the traffic around ...
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Nigeria
Concerns Over Child Miners Of Plateau
A new trend is emerging in Jos and its environs as far as mining activities is concerned as school children abandon their studies for illegal mining business which is thriving, ACHOR ABIMAJE, reports. I am here because I work in the site everyday so that I can make little money ...
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Nigeria
Despite Naira Devaluation, Dangote Remains Africa’s Richest Man
Inspite of naira devaluation, Nigeria’s richest man and business tycoon, Aliko Dangote has maintain his spot as the Africa’s richest person for the sixth year running with a $12.1 billion fortune. Dangote maintain the spot despite a nearly $5 billion drop in his net worth for the second year in ...
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Nigeria
41 Items Ban: FG Loses N455.9bn
The federal government of Nigeria has lost about N455.9billion, from June 2015 till date, to the foreign exchange policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that the amount which should have accrued to coffers of the government as revenue, is lost following the ban placed on ...
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Cina Nigeria
FG Approves $1.2b For Kano – Kaduna Rail
The Federal Government has approved $1.2 billion for the construction of the Kano-Kaduna standard gauge railway project. The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amechi, said in Kano on Saturday when he visited Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, that the Federal Government was negotiating with China EXIM bank to finance the project. “We ...