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Giappone
Outspoken adviser to Abe urges regime change at BOJ, cautions on 2019 sales tax hike
Amid strong expectations that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may reappoint Haruhiko Kuroda to another term as governor of the Bank of Japan, at least one ...
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Brasile
SUS é obrigado a fazer cirurgia reparadora de câncer de mama
Os senadores aprovaram, na noite desta quarta-feira (8/11), projeto que obriga as redes pública e privada de saúde a promover cirurgia plástica reparadora da mama nos dois seios das mulheres vítimas de câncer. Caso vire lei, será criada a chamada simetrização, que prevê a reconstrução mamária em ambos os seios, ...
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Brasile
Negros enfrentam mais dificuldades que brancos no mercado, diz MPT
Os negros enfrentam dificuldade na progressão de carreira, na igualdade de salários e são os mais vulneráveis ao assédio moral no ambiente de trabalho, apesar da proteção constitucional contra o racismo e a discriminação. A avaliação é do Ministério Público do Trabalho (MPT). Leia mais notícias em Brasil Segundo a coordenadora da ...
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Nuova Zelanda
Young Achiever of the Week: Ayla Carey
Ayla Carey is eagerly awaiting which chosen trade in the New Zealand Defence Force she can apply for while she carries out her final year at Tauranga Girls' College."It could be a role as a medic, in communication and information...
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Singapore
OCBC Bank claims to be the first in Singapore to distribute health insurance via mobile and internet banking
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Nigeria
Senate shifts PIB passage to Q1 2018
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Senate has again shifted the time for the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill from this year to the first quarter of 2018 on the premise that the National Assembly has a lot of work to do in order to ensure the early passage of next ...
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Nigeria
2018 budget: PENGASSAN cautions against oil, gas assets’ sale
Akinpelu Dada The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has cautioned the Federal Government against selling profitable oil and gas assets as scrap to fund the 2018 budget. The trade union expressed its support to other models of funding the budget aside from selling the oil and ...
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Nigeria
Radio presenter loses car to Lagos DPO’s in-law
Samson Folarin A 31-year-old radio presenter, Muyide Samuel, has lamented the loss of his Toyota Camry 2003 model to a car dealer, Odofin Olatunji, who claimed to be an in-law to a Lagos Divisional Police Officer. The Ibadan, Oyo State-based presenter said the car, which he bought from Olatunji, developed ...
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Nigeria
Senate indicts CBN over MTN’s $13.9bn repatriation
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has blamed the Central Bank of Nigeria in its investigation of the alleged illegal repatriation of $13.9bn by telecommunication giant, MTN. Adopting the report by the Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions on the probe at the plenary on Wednesday, the Senate accused ...
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Nigeria
FG faults Moody’s sovereign rating of Nigeria
Everest Amaefule, Abuja The Federal Government on Wednesday faulted the downgrading of Nigeria from B1 stable to B2 stable by Moody’s Sovereign Rating. In a statement issued in Abuja by the Debt Management Office on behalf of the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria, the government said ...