• USA Nigeria

    FG approves payment of N26bn to power firms

    …commences fresh action on ease of doing business Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Federal Government on Wednesday approved the payment of N25.994bn owed by its Ministries, Departments and Agencies to electricity distribution companies. The government also resolved to investigate the firm that was said to have exported poor quality yams from ...

  • Nigeria

    Stakeholders examine opportunities, challenges in PIB

    ’Femi Asu Stakeholders in the nation’s oil and gas industry have said the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill will present opportunities for the nation’s oil and gas industry. They spoke at a breakfast lecture, entitled ‘Petroleum Industry Bill: Challenges and opportunities,’ organised by the Island Club, Onikan, Lagos. The ...

  • Nigeria

    Customs impound 11 smuggled exotic cars

    The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ has impounded 11 smuggled exotic vehicles with a duty paid value of N125.4m. Disclosing this to journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, the Controller, NCS FOU, Zone ‘A’, Mohammed Uba, also stated that eight suspects had been arrested in connection with 128 ...

  • Nigeria

    Stakeholders to focus on trends in haulage business

    Stakeholders in the Nigerian haulage industry are preparing for the 2017 edition of the Haulage and Logistics Magazine Annual Conference & Exhibition tagged Haulmace 2017. The stakeholders, according to a statement on Wednesday, would discuss the emerging trends in the haulage business in Nigeria in an attempt to move the ...

  • Nigeria

    Firm, LASU partner to train students in water production

    For the third time Rinllandded Nigeria Limited has collaborated with the Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lagos State University (LASU) to train students in water treatment and packaging. The trainee students, who cut across various faculties in the university, were at the Iyana Era premises of the firms’s water packaging plant, ...

  • Nigeria

    Stakeholders Urge Nigerians To Be Heart Healthy

     BY ODIRI UCHENUNU-IBEH, Lagos  As heart disease and stroke maintain lead in the causes of death globally, claiming over 17 million lives each year, stakeholders in the health sector have urged Nigerians to be heart healthy.  The Marketing Director, PZ Wilmar, Mr. Kalyan Bandyopadhyay said there is need to embark ...

  • Brasile

    Três pessoas são presas no RS por negociar bebê por R$ 100 mil

    Três pessoas foram presas na manhã desta quarta-feira (4/10), suspeitas de negociar a venda de um bebê por R$ 100 mil no Rio Grande do Sul. Segundo a Polícia Civil, as prisões aconteceram em Novo Hamburgo, na região do Vale do Sinos e no balneário Pinhal, no ...

  • Brasile

    Brazil’s Mais Medicos Program to Lose Cuban Doctors

    By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Nearly 1,400 Brazilian doctors with foreign diplomas were admitted into the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) program on Tuesday (October 3rd), as Brazil’s government tries to substitute foreign doctors in the program for Brazilian ones. Recently Cuban doctors finishing up their ...

  • Brasile

    Itacuruçá: A Natural Paradise in the Southern Rio State

    By Beatriz Miranda, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As the hot summer season gets closer in Brazil, there is nothing like a getaway to a nice beach area nearby. Still little known among many foreign travelers, the district of Itacuruçá might be just the spot to add to ...

  • Danimarca

    Campari vende Lemonsoda alla danese Royal Unibrew per 80 milioni

    Campari ha siglato un accordo per la cessione del business Lemonsoda a Royal Unibrew, società produttrice di bevande con sede in Danimarca. Il corrispettivo dell'operazione...