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Portogallo
“Conversas com Norte”. “Portugal conquistou a Metyis”, garante gestor da empresa no país
Ricardo Teixeira, o responsável da Metyis em Portugal, justifica dessa forma o forte investimento que a empresa se prepara para fazer, com a construção do novo centro de engenharia e desenvolvimento, localizado em Gondomar, que terá um custo inicial de 10 milhões de euros e permitirá também a criação de ...
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Nigeria
Ecobank To Empower 40m Nigerian Women In Business
Ecobank Nigeria said it plans to empower 40 million women-owned and women-managed businesses in the country through its recently launched gender-based proposition, Ellevate. Managing director and chief executive of the bank, Mr Patrick Akinwuntan, speaking on Ellevate, said the gender-based proposition for women-owned businesses is targeted at reducing gender inequality ...
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Nigeria
Declining Naira Value Forces Businesses, Companies To Parallel Market
With the value of the naira further declining to N504 to the dollar, businesses and corporates are resorting to sourcing foreign exchange at the parallel market as turnover at the Nigeria Autonomous Foreign Exchange (NAFEX) market continues to plummet. This is as the 30-day moving average of the external reserves ...
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Nigeria
Deputy Gov Tasks Biotechnologists On Food Sufficiency
The Deputy Governor of Kaduna state, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, has noted that Biotechnology will play a key role in the industrialisation of the state, create more jobs and enhance its economy. Dr Balarabe who made this known at the opening of the first annual symposium of the Biotechnology Society of ...
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Nigeria
Hiking Of Campaign Spending
The National Assembly is presently in the process of making alterations to the 1999 constitution ostensibly to adapt it to present realities. One of the laws the federal lawmakers are attempting to amend is the law guiding elections in Nigeria, the Electoral Act. Already, the work of the lawmakers is ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA Intercepts N6.5bn Heroin At Lagos Airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kilograms of heroin with a street value of over N6.5billion at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. The illicit drug had arrived Lagos in 25 parcels from South Africa through ...
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Ghana Nigeria
Ghana/Nigeria Trade Impasse: The Imperatives Of Parliamentary Diplomacy
The new leader of the Ghanaian parliament, Alban Bagbin last week visited Nigeria’s House of Representatives and was admitted into the chamber to speak. This signals robust parliamentary diplomacy between the two African countries as initiated by the speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabimila. Gbajabimila, having realised that ...
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Nigeria
Chevron Bags Best Exhibition Booth Award At NOG
Chevron Nigeria Limited, (CNL), operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and CNL, (NNPC/CNL JV), has received an award for the best exhibition booth at the 2021 edition of the Nigeria oil and gas (NOG) conference and exhibitions. The award was presented during the industry ...
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Nigeria
Abia Riders Insure Tricycles With Universal Insurance Policy
Tricycle riders in Abia State have promised to insure their tricycles with Universal Insurance Plc. The riders, under the aegis of Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) and Aba Tricycle Riders Integrated Welfare Association (ATRIWA) recently applauded the unveiling of Keke Pass policy in Umuahia and Aba area of the ...
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Brasile Argentina
Argentine Minister of Economy says global tax pact will put an end to “toxic” tax avoidance
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Argentine Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, considers that the endorsement by the G20 in Venice of the global taxation mechanism for multinationals is a “historic” step to “put an end to the most toxic aspect of globalization: tax avoidance” by large corporations. “It is ...