• Nigeria

    I made my first million in the 90’s – Ali Baba

    A renowned comedian, Ali Baba, has said that he started making his millions as a stand-up comedian in the late 90’s when the profession was still in its infancy in the country. Ali Baba said on Monday in Lagos that comedy business started paying off when people knew little about ...

  • Nigeria

    BREAKING: CBN introduces new FX rates

    The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday introduced new Forex rates and would no longer trade the naira at N375 per dollar for invisibles, such as school fees, medical bills and travel allowances. The regulator said Nigerians can now get the dollar at N360 across all commercial banks within the ...

  • Giordania

    Sudan’s Bashir to attend Arab summit

    President Omar al-Bashir will attend an Arab League summit in Amman this week, Sudan’s foreign minister said Sunday, despite a top rights group urging Jordan to deny him entry. Bashir is wanted by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged genocide and war crimes related to the conflict in ...

  • USA

    Trump taps son-in-law to head bureaucacy overhaul

    US President Donald Trump has tapped son-in-law Jared Kushner to lead a new White House office, that aims to apply ideas from the business world to help streamline the government, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The White House Office of Innovation is to be unveiled Monday with sweeping authority to ...

  • Nigeria

    Bureaux de Change at risk as naira gains more muscle

    Business seems bad for Bureaux De Change (BDCs) — no thanks to the naira’s new strength that has hit them with heavy losses. The naira has strengthened below N381 to the dollar, the rate at which BDCs buy International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOS) cash from the Central Bank of Nigeria ...

  • Messico Spagna Malta

    INDEPTH: Chris Cardona’s alibi might not be enough

    Economy Minister and PL Deputy Leader Chris Cardona needs more than a video showing him participating in an EU conference in Germany as an alibi to refute allegations levelled by journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia that an eyewitness saw him at a German brothel engaging in sex for cash.Replying to questions ...

  • Nigeria Malta

    Malta Developers Association, Minister Herrera meet quarry owners

    The Malta Developers Association on Saturday committed to start immediate discussions on the long-term disposal of construction waste in a meeting it called for quarry owners in the presence of the Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change José Herrera.Six people were appointed to represent the quarry owners ...

  • Malta

    Editorial: Built-up environment - Stop the senseless destruction

    If you want to see how our environment is fast degenerating just climb (or drive up to) Salib tal-Gholja in Siggiewi, which gives you a bird’s eye view of practically the entire country, save for the very northern part. There, you get a real sense of how much of our ...

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    Germany, England, Poland stay on course in World Cup qualifying

     Germany, England and Poland all took another step toward World Cup qualification but the Netherlands' failure to do the same cost national coach Danny Blind his job on Sunday.The Dutch football association fired Blind one day after his team's humiliating 2-0 defeat to Bulgaria in Sofia — a result that ...

  • Malta

    Muslim countries did not experience Europe's strife for pluralism - Alfred Sant

    MEP and former Prime Minister Alfred Sant said Muslim countries did not experience Europe’s internal strife for pluralism. Religious pluralism was established in Europe after hundreds of years of violent disagreements and bloody wars and later it had to be the French Revolution which introduced the principles of equality.  This ...