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Kenya
Business: Kenya gets ready for green bond
Kenya's push to float the first bond with a bias on environment-friendly projects has gained momentum with key partners signinga deal to develop the framework.
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Kenya
The cutting edge
Nairobi’s backstreets and alleys, even in the central business district, have been terribly neglected.
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Nigeria
Humanity and the sins of Ambode
Ayo Sogunro Sometime last week, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria visited the rarely remarked Otodo Gbame, a fishing settlement at the Lagos waterfronts. This foreign leader had gone there to assess what has become an emerging refugee crisis in the Otodo Gbame community and to offer them his encouragement. When ...
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USA
Mum got angry if we folded or tore books — Adimora-Ezeigbo’s daughter
Nwanneka is a daughter to celebrated novelist, critic and lecturer, Prof. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. She talks about her mother’s career with GBENGA ADENIJI Tell us about yourself. I am Nwanneka Justin; a graduate of finance and a chartered accountant. I am in my thirties and I have built a career as ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria loses N127bn annually to Internet fraud
Ozioma Ubabukoh Nigeria is losing over N127bn yearly to cases of Internet frauds across all sectors of the economy, the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, has said. The minister stated this in a document he made available to our correspondent on Friday, adding that majority of the frauds were ...
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Nigeria
Retelling the story of Lagos National Stadium
IDRIS ADESINA reports that night business inside the National Stadium, Lagos, has experienced a boom while the sporting facilities have continued to decay in the arena once regarded as one of Africa’s best It is no longer news that the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, once the pride of the nation, ...
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Nigeria
‘Why Naira falls despite CBN’s intervention’
President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, has blamed the recent depreciation of naira on speculators’ onslaught and resistance by the banking industry. Gwadabe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos that the refusal of some banks to sell the invisibles such ...
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Giappone
Marking 100 years, Fuji Heavy changes name to Subaru
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. on Saturday officially changed its corporate name to Subaru Corp., the name of its most popular car brand, to enhance its image and boost sales as it marks 100 years since its founding. “By changing the company name, we’re making a resolution to take a step ...
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Giappone
JTB set to launch 11-seat luxury tour bus service
Travel agency JTB Corp. is putting an 11-seat luxury tour bus into service this month that it says will offer comfort similar to first-class plane cabins. The company says the luxury ride, specially modified from a 45-seat bus, features leather-covered seats that recline deeper than conventional seats and have viewing ...
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Cina Regno Unito
Nigerian Remains A Fertile Ground For e-Marketting -Expert
Despite being ranked sixth in the world; above Germany and the UK with China leading the chat, experts have said the untapped potentials in the Nigerian e-Marketting environment is unparalleled. They said, out of the over 180 million Nigerian population, over 100 million are yet to tap the from the ...