• USA Nigeria

    IMF warns Nigeria, others over rising foreign debts

    Oyetunji Abioye, Washington DC The International Monetary Fund has warned Nigeria and other oil-exporting countries over rising foreign debts, saying there is a need to make external borrowings sustainable. The Fund, however, commended Nigeria for the recent reforms aimed at reducing infrastructure gap in the country, adding that it was ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria wins World Bank’s youth development initiative

    For the second successive year, Nigeria has won the Ideas for Action initiative, a youth competition on financing for development, which is organised by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. Nigeria’s winning proposal, “Kitovu,” came out tops from among 743 proposals from ...

  • USA Nigeria

    IMF warns Nigeria, others over rising foreign debt

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned the Federal Government about its rising debt profile, especially of foreign loans. Speaking yesterday at the ongoing World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C, IMF Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department Tobias Adrian, lamented that external borrowing in emerging markets and low-income countries, ...

  • Nigeria

    Reps Demand Audit Trail Of Stamp Duty Account

    By ADEBIYI ADEDAPO,  Abuja The House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications has disagreed with some commercial banks over excess charges on the stamp duty of N50 on every N1000 deposit. To this end, the committee insisted that it would work with consultants to audit records of individual banks as well ...

  • USA

    Trump's new 'Buy American' rules to challenge Israeli drone's market dominance

    New domestic policy is to make it easier for U.S. drone makers to sell their spy planes abroad, while Washington pushes for looser international restrictions on their export

  • Colombia Bolivia Venezuela

    Ante continuidad de ataques contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos en Colombia, el Subsecretario General de Derechos Humanos urge a su protección

    Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country: ColombiaDesde comienzos de 2017, ha habido más asesinatos de defensores de derechos humanos, líderes sociales y comunitarios, en particular en áreas anteriormente ocupadas por las FARC-EP.BOGOTA / NUEVA YORK (9 de octubre de 2017). El Subsecretario General de la ONU ...

  • USA Bolivia Uruguay

    Joint drive to restart stalled progress vital amid growing instability in DR Congo

    Source: UN Security Council Country: Democratic Republic of the CongoThe top UN official in DR Congo urged international and regional stakeholders to help the country avert worsening instability by advancing progress on elections and other stalled components of the recent political agreement.SC/13024 Security Council 8067th Meeting (AM) Electoral List in Final Phase of Updating, ...

  • Etiopia

    Excelling in Foreign Policy

    [Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is implementing a foreign policy that has in fact redeemed the war ravaged Horn of Africa region. As we know, if anything goes wrong in the Horn of Africa region, Ethiopia would be the first to suffer the consequences. The policy it is pursuing now is devised ...

  • Etiopia

    Sher On Hot Plate, Heavy Tax, Labour Dispute

    [Addis Fortune] Sher Ethiopia Plc, one of the largest commercial farms engaged in the production and export of horticultural products, and the Oromia Regional Revenues Authority clutched each other at the neck over a 400 million Br tax settlement issue.

  • Etiopia

    Currying Relations

    [Addis Fortune] President Ram Nath Kovind came to Addis Abeba for a state visit that lasted two days, making it the first of its kind in almost a century, the last time an Indian president made a trip to the East African nation. Kovind's visit is meant to strengthen bilateral ...