• Nigeria

    No medical screening, no marriage, Kaduna Assembly passes new law

    It is now unlawful to get married without undergoing medical screening in Kaduna State. This followed the passage into law, the Pre-medical Examination Bill 2017, by the State House of Assembly on Thursday. The law now compel would-be couple to undergo medical test to determine their health status and compatibility before marriage. The new ...

  • Nigeria

    BREAKING: Buhari appoints Bello NEXIM Bank MD

    Friday Olokor, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Abubakar Abba Bello as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive of Nigeria Export-Import Bank. Others appointed for NEXIM Bank are Dr. Bala Mohammed Bello (Executive Director, Corporate Services) and Stella Okotete (Executive Director, Business Development). A terse statement issued in Abuja on Thursday evening with Ref. ...

  • Nigeria

    FG inaugurates committee to expand trade with other countries

    Ifeanyi Onuba,Abuja The Federal Government in a bid to expand Nigeria’s trade with other countries of the world has inaugurated a national committee for  the Continental Free Trade Area negotiations. African Union Heads of State and Government at their summit in 2012, decided to establish a Continental Free Trade Area, ...

  • Nigeria

    PMB Appoints New Management For Nexim Bank

    President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Abubakar Abba Bello as the new Managing Director of Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM). This is contained in a statement issued by the director media, Bolaji Adebiyi in the office of the Secretary to the government of the federation. He said also appointed ...

  • Nigeria

    IGP Idris Tasks Nigerians To Expose Corruption In Police

    The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has urged Nigerians to use the various social media platforms and expose corruption and misconduct in the police. The IGP, who stated this yesterday, in Abuja during the inauguration of the partnership between the Nigeria Police and Akin Fadeyi Foundation on an anti-corruption initiative ...

  • Nigeria

    Medical Tourism: Saudi German Hospital To Collaborate With Nigerian Doctors

    Doctors from Saudi German Hospital in Dubai have disclosed intentions to partner with Nigerian Doctors on Neurosurgery training and use of the state of the art medical equipment. “Saudi German Hospital is keen to train doctors from this region and set up telemedicine centres in Abuja. In long term, it ...

  • Nigeria

    Economic Recovery: Emphasising Made-in- Nigeria Goods

    The love for foreign goods and services to the detriment of locally produced ones has remained a debilitating economic drain which has, in turn, contributed immensely to the current recession. It is for this reason that the current campaign to promote the patronage of Made- in -Nigerian goods has been ...

  • Nigeria

    CBN Releases Fresh $100m To FOREX Market

    Apart from the $280 million it injected into the Foreign Exchange Market on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on yesterday, carried out spot, wholesale interventions in the interbank FOREX market by offering a total sum of $100m to authorized dealers to meet the 7 to ...

  • Nigeria

    Abuja Airport: British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Others Resume Full Operations Today

    Barely 24 hours after the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) was opened for flight operations, no fewer than seven foreign airlines are expected to resume full flight operations into and out of the airport today. Ethiopian Airlines had on Tuesday landed with over 200 passengers on-board an A350 aircraft, making ...

  • Thailandia

    Major banks hit by provisions, weak loans

    Most major Thai banks reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday as they booked higher provisions for bad debt, with loans weak amid a tepid recovery in the country's economy.