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Nigeria
Cleric seeks law empowering children to sue divorced parents for damages
A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Oluolu, has called for a legislation that will power children who are victims of divorce, to sue their parents for damages. Oluolu, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, decried the high rate of divorce in Nigeria and said that children were ...
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Nigeria
How Director defrauded company of N45bn – MD
The Managing Director of an outdoor advertising firm — Afromedia Plc., Mr Akinola Olopade, on Wednesday told an Ikeja High Court how one of the company’s directors defrauded it of N45 billion in a business transaction. Olopade made the disclosure at the ongoing trial of Alhaji Mohammed Gobir for a 17-count ...
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Brasile
PF desarticula quadrilha que levava drogas do Paraguai ao Sul do país
A Polícia Federal (PF) prendeu 14 pessoas investigadas por um esquema de tráfico de drogas entre o Paraguai e a região sul do Brasil. A Operação Petrus, deflagrada na manhã desta quarta-feira (29/3), mobiliza 100 policiais em cidades do Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina e Mato Grosso do Sul.De ...
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Brasile
JBS concederá férias coletivas para 10 de suas 36 unidades de abate
A JBS, maior processadora de carnes do mundo, informou nesta quarta-feira (29/3), que concederá férias coletivas de 20 dias, a partir da próxima segunda-feira (3/4), para 10 de suas 36 unidades de abate de bovinos no Brasil - uma em São Paulo, três em Mato Grosso do Sul, uma em ...
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Brasile
Brazilian Meat Exports Fall by 19 Percent Due to Scandal
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Despite news that major importers of Brazilian meats were once again authorizing the return of the product to their countries, Brazilian beef imports fell by nineteen percent last week, according to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services. Nonetheless, ...
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Brasile
MetrôRio Announces 24 Hour Program During Rock in Rio 2017
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Organizers of the mega-music festival Rock in Rio have announced a new transportation program in partnership with MetrôRio for the 2017 edition, set to take place at the Cidade do Rock (Rock City) in Barra da Tijuca on September 15th, ...
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Kenya
Business News: Kenyans worry about increasing cost of food as Treasury prepares budget statement
Walking along the filthy, narrow alleys that separate the tin shanties of Mukuru kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi feels like wandering in a post-historic earth; an earth where civilisation is lost.
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Kenya
Business: Kenyans worry about increasing cost of food as Treasury prepares budget statement
Walking along the filthy, narrow alleys that separate the tin shanties of Mukuru kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi feels like wandering in a post-historic earth; an earth where civilisation is lost.
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Kenya
Business: Four of six aid workers killed in South Sudan were Kenyans - statement
Four of the six aid workers killed in an ambush in South Sudan over the weekend were Kenyans working for a local non-governmental organisation, Kenya's government said on Tuesday.
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Kenya
Business: Local entrepreneurs benefit from European bank's billions
Kenya is among four countries that are set to benefit from Sh 10.45 billion entrepreneurs credit from the European Investment Bank (EIB).