• Nigeria

    ICAN plans partnership with NEM Insurance

    The Lagos Mainland and District Society of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria has concluded plans to visit some prisons, as part of its quest to bring succour to the needy in the district. The Chairman of the district, Chief Amobi Nwokafor, stated this plan during a courtesy visit ...

  • Nigeria

    Market Watch…for the week ended March 24, 2017

    Local economy news The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee met on the March 21 and 22 and voted to leave the benchmark interest rate, the Monetary Policy Rate, unchanged at 14 per cent despite moderation in annual inflationary pressure and moderation in financial system liquidity. The monetary authority ...

  • Nigeria

    Premium phablets

    The PhonePad 3 phablet is now in Nigeria, and industry experts say that the device is made with the intention of facilitating business communications and productivity for its users on-the-go. “Currently the best 7-inch phablet, it has lots of upgrades in performance and design on the PhonePad 7E that was ...

  • Nigeria

    Fire Breaks Out At Women Centre, Abuja

    Fire on Sunday broke out at the National Centre for Women Development adjacent to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the Central Business District of Abuja. The General Manager (Facilities) of the centre, Alhaji Idris Madob, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), that the inferno started at the ...

  • Nigeria

    Investments In Lekki Free Trade Zone Hits N100 Billion

    Indication has emerged that investments into the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) an emerging business hub in the Lagos axis of the State has risen to over N100billion in the last 10 years. The Chairman of Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Mr. Abiodun Dabiri who disclosed this at the weekend ...

  • Giappone

    Tokyo, Osaka bourses to let employees telecommute using company computers in April

    Japan Exchange Group Inc. will join the nation’s growing telecommuting trend as part of the government’s attempt to reform national working practices to reduce karoshi, or death from overwork The operator of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Exchange, also known as JPX, will allow employees to work from ...

  • Giappone

    State taps director Kobayakawa to become Tepco’s next president

    The government plans to appoint Tomoaki Kobayakawa, a director on the board of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., as president of the nationalized utility, it was learned Sunday. Kobayakawa, 53, is president of Tepco Energy Partner Inc., a retail subsidiary. The government plans to have Tepco President Naomi Hirose, ...

  • Cina USA

    Africa: Investment in Africa - There's Room for Everyone

    [Al Jazeera] China is not "moving relentlessly across Africa". Despite what Peter Navarro, head of US President Donald Trump's National Trade Council has written, that China is "locking down strategic natural resources, locking up emerging markets and locking out the United States", experience on the ground tells a different story.

  • Australia

    Africa: Most Financial Inflows Not Developmental

    [IPS] Sydney and Kuala Lumpur -Recent disturbing trends in international finance have particularly problematic implications, especially for developing countries. The recently released United Nations report, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017 (WESP 2017) is the only recent report of a multilateral inter-governmental organization to recognize these problems, especially as they ...

  • Malta Cipro

    Cyprus-Malta: competition, cooperation on passports

    The debate over Malta’s citizenship-by-investment programme may have subsided in recent months, but on another small Mediterranean island, the same scheme is facing similar criticism – and a similar defence by the authorities. The programme introduced by the government of Cyprus in 2013, originally as a temporary measure in the face ...