• Brasile

    Estado do Rio recorre de arresto de contas para pagar servidores da Uerj

    A Procuradoria-Geral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (PGE-RJ) informou nesta terça-feira (24/10) que entrou com um Embargo de Declaração no Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (TJ-RJ) para recorrer contra a decisão de arrestar R$ 84,7 milhões das contas bancárias do governo fluminense para pagar o ...

  • Nigeria

    PENGASSAN rejects plan to tax pension, terminal benefits

    Ozioma Ubabukoh The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has rejected the plan by the federal and state governments to impose tax on pensions, gratuities and terminal benefits of workers in the country. The senior staff trade union vowed to resist the implementation of the plan which ...

  • Nigeria Regno Unito

    NDDC scholarships: Students protest, lament neglect

    Samson Folarin  Beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission foreign scholarship have berated the commission for abandoning them after promising to foot their academic bills. The students, who stormed the Nigeria High Commission in London, United Kingdom, with placards, said they had been left in the lurch as both their ...

  • USA Nigeria

    States rule out borrowing to fund revenue gaps

    Everest Amaefule, Abuja  State governments on Tuesday ruled out resorting to borrowing to fund gaps resulting from dwindling revenues accruing to the Federation Account, which are shared by the three tiers of government. Speaking with journalists in Abuja after the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting for the month of October, ...

  • Nigeria

    BVN: Presidential aide wants more time for Nigerians in diaspora

    Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said more time should be given to Nigerians in the diaspora to obtain the bank verification number. She made the plea in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja in response to the ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria open to more investments, says Osinbajo

    Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said Nigeria was open to business and more investments. Osinbajo, who chairs the nation’s Economic Management Team, said this at a bilateral meeting he held with his Indonesian counterpart, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, on the sidelines of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ...

  • Nigeria

    Maina probe widens as EFCC seals more houses

    Senators seek sack of Malami, Dambazau, others How did wanted civil servant Abdulrasheed Maina sneak into Nigeria? Who gave him the police and other security personnel he had? These are some of the questions in government and security circles, following the scandal sparked by Maina’s reinstatement and promotion. The dismissed ...

  • USA Nigeria

    States won’t borrow to bridge funding gap

    States have ruled out borrowing to bridge their funding gaps. The chairman of the Finance Commissioners Forum, Adamawa State Commissioner for Finance Mahmood Yunusa, yesterday told reporters at the end of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in Abuja that “states are not looking at borrowing to augment the ...

  • Senegal

    "L'ENEV, un dispositif de promotion de l'économie verte" (officiel)

    Dakar, 24 oct (APS) – Le projet d'examen national de l'export vert (ENEV) du Sénégal, lancé mardi à Dakar, va contribuer à la promotion de l'économie verte, a déclaré Henri Mathieu Lô, conseiller technique au ministère de l'Environnement et du Développement durable. Dakar, 24 oct (APS) – Le projet d'examen ...

  • Svizzera

    La SGO a produit plus de 6 tonnes d'or en 2016 (directeur)

    Dakar, 24 oct (APS) – La société Sabodala Gold operations (SGO) a produit en 2016, 6,15 tonnes d'or exportées en Suisse pour un coût financier estimé à 150 milliards de frs CFA, a indiqué, mardi à Dakar, son directeur général, Abdoul Aziz Sy. Dakar, 24 oct (APS) - La société ...