• Giappone

    Aso, some G-7 peers stress free trade as key to helping fight inequality

    Finance Minister Taro Aso and some of his Group of Seven (G-7) peers have stressed the importance of promoting free trade as part of an effort to address inequality, a senior Finance Ministry official said. They made the comment Friday, the first day of a two-day Group of Seven financial ...

  • Cina Giappone

    Government sends mixed signals on idea of Japan joining China-led AIIB

    The idea of Japan joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is finding renewed enthusiasm within the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, sources have said. The idea has advocates within the Prime Minister’s Office and the trade ministry, and is backed by Toshihiro Nikai, the secretary general of Abe’s ...

  • Cina USA Giappone

    China, U.S. reach trade agreement over beef, poultry, natural gas imports and exports

    Beijing will open its borders to U.S. beef, while cooked Chinese poultry is closer to landing on American supermarket shelves under a U.S.-China trade agreement. Trump administration officials hailed the deal as a significant advance toward boosting U.S. exports and closing America’s trade gap with the world’s second-largest economy. U.S. ...

  • Nigeria

    N139bn budget: Plateau gov demands strict financial discipline

    Friday Olokor, Jos Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has promised to embark on strict financial discipline, block leakages and engender aggressive mobilisation and mopping-up of all funds accruable to the state. Expressing the view while signing into law the 2017 budget for the state, estimated at N139bn, he said that ...

  • Nigeria

    Govt bans MDAs from conducting business with unregistered firms

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Federal Government on Friday banned ministries, departments and agencies from transacting business with companies and other corporate bodies that are not duly registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission. A circular issued by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation said that the ...

  • Nigeria

    Over 120 S’African companies in Nigeria, says FG

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Federal Government has said there are over 120 South African companies doing business in Nigeria. It, therefore, stated that there was a need for Nigeria and South Africa to improve on their relationship, which had been tainted by reports of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria’s economy attracts N305bn investment in two months

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja Despite the challenges facing the country, the Nigerian economy attracted investments worth $1bn (about N305bn) in the first two months of this year. The Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive, National Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yemi Kale, confirmed this to our correspondent in an exclusive interview ...

  • Nigeria

    Lagos evicts retired PS, others from homes

    …govt action inhuman – Victims Gbenro Adeoye A former Permanent Secretary, a former Surveyor General of Lagos State and seven other families of retired civil servants were on Friday forcibly evicted from the homes allocated to them by the government at the Alausa Quarters II, Central Business District, Ikeja. Residents ...

  • Nigeria

    Security guard on N25,000 salary steals N24.4m, threatens boss with whistle-blowing

    Kunle Falayi On May 6, businessman and resident of Gwarimpa Housing Estate, FCT, Abuja, Benedict Emmanuel, noticed that a stack of foreign currency he kept in his house had disappeared. But little did he know that his good-natured security guard, 40-year-old Alfred Andrew, a Bauchi State indigene, had suddenly become ...

  • Nigeria

    Police recover rifle of missing cop, as family demands

    Kunle Falayi Six months after Musa Sunday, an Inspector with the Lagos State Police Command went missing while on official duty, police authorities have recovered his rifle but not his body. This has become another reason for his distraught family to call on the police to intensify efforts to recover ...