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Nigeria
N200bn unpaid salaries: Federal civil servants threaten indefinite strike
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike to protest the non-payment of their N200bn promotion and salaries and death benefits. The National Executive Council of the ASCSN, which took the decision during its meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, ...
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Nigeria
Japanese firms plan $30bn investments in Nigeria, others
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Japanese Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Shunsuke Takei, on Thursday said businessmen from his country would be investing about $30bn in Nigeria and other African nations. He stated this when he led a delegation of 32 Japanese investors to meet separately with the Minister of ...
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Nigeria
Sterling Bank restates commitment to FX availability
Sterling Bank says transparency, continuous engagement, proper documentation and promptness in sending returns of unutilised foreign exchange to the Central Bank of Nigeria are the main factors that helped the bank to escape the regulator’s ban from its Small and Medium Enterprises FX window. The CBN had on Wednesday announced ...
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Nigeria
Kaduna car dealers set Customs vehicle ablaze over import duty
Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna But for the timely intervention of the Kaduna State security outfit, code-named ‘Operation Yaki’, the state capital would have been thrown into another crisis as car dealers and Customs officials clashed on Thursday. In the melee, the car dealers set ablaze a Customs’ patrol vehicle. The incident, ...
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Nigeria
NIBF to address challenges in book industry
The 2017 Nigeria International Book Fair will proffer solutions to the challenges hampering the growth of the book and knowledge industry, the Chairman, Nigeria Book Fair Trust, Alhaji Rilwanu Abdulsalami, has said. Abdulsalami added that participants and libraries would have access to the latest local and foreign titles as well ...
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Nigeria
Forex stability excites Buhari, says Emefiele
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari was excited at the current stability being witnessed in the foreign exchange market. Emefiele told State House correspondents that Buhari was delighted to learn about the stability when he (the CBN governor) ...
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Nigeria
LASG fetes pupils with folklore, quiz
The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Central Business Districts, Mr. Agboola Dabiri, has said that familiarising pupils with the histories of cultural heroes and heroines will inspire them and prevent the deterioration of edifices built in their honour. Dabiri said this on Thursday during a programme organised ...
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Nigeria
Police probe female student’s death
Oyo State Police Command has begun investigation into the death of Miss Deborah Effiong, a 100-level Law student at the University of Ibadan. Police Commissioner Mr. Abiodun Odude, in a phone interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Ibadan, said the investigation followed a report by the university authority. He said the outcome ...
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Israele
Business in brief: Justice minister opposes raising pay cap
UroGen Pharma raises $58m in U.S. IPO | Nice beats forecasts for first-quarter profit | Tel Aviv shares end higher in heavy trading
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USA Giappone
In latest viral airline video, Delta boots family from flight over child’s seat
A California family says they were forced off a Delta plane and threatened with jail after refusing to give up one of their children’s seats on a crowded flight. A video of the April 23 incident was uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday and adds to the list of recent encounters ...