• USA

    Korea-US FTA results in US export increases, better-paying jobs to American workers

    The free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States has brought about increases in overall US exports to

  • Egitto USA

    WFP provides school meals to Syrian children across Aleppo city

    Source: World Food Programme Country: Syrian Arab RepublicThe meals, including a carton of milk fortified with vitamins and minerals and a locally-baked date bar, have been distributed to about 15,000 children at 30 schools in Aleppo since the programme began on 5 March.DAMASCUS – In March, the United Nations World Food ...

  • Francia

    Amélioration génétique : le haras de Quesnay promet son appui à celui du Sénégal

    Kébémer, 9 mars (PS) - Le haras de Quesnay (France) va appuyer le haras national du Sénégal dans le domaine de l'amélioration génétique, aux termes d'un protocole signé jeudi par les deux parties et qui porte sur des accords de partenariat, a constaté l'APS. - Elevage

  • Nigeria

    Vehicle duty: Senate threatens to remove Customs DG

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate on Wednesday asked the Director General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), to appear before it ‘unfailingly’ next Wednesday. The lawmakers also stated that the Customs boss would not be admitted into the chamber if he failed to appear in the uniform of the ...

  • Nigeria

    The shambles of the current forex regulations

    Emmanuel Nwachukwu  For decades bad policy decisions have bedevilled development in Nigeria and fuelled corruption.  We have tended to go for populist solutions and ignored the long term impact of such decisions on the economy.  The recent changes to Nigeria’s foreign exchange regulations are one of such policy decisions.   The ...

  • Nigeria

    CBN boosts forex supply by $170m

    ’Femi Asu The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday offered the sum of $100m as wholesale interventions and sold about $70m to meet requests for business and personal travel allowances. The CBN said the move was in a bid to sustain the tempo of foreign exchange supply to the interbank ...

  • Nigeria

    Sultan to govt: relax ban on rice, vehicles import through land borders

    Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Saad Abubakar III has urged the Federal Government to relax the ban on importation of rice and vehicles through land borders. The Sultan spoke at his palace yesterday when Acting President Yemi Osinbajo visited him. “We will continue to serve as the voices of the voiceless ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA Lays Ambush At Kaduna Airport

    Following the March 9 flight diversion from Abuja Airport to Kaduna Airport, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has taken its fight against drugs to the new international airport. The chief executive of the agency, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (retd) yesterday gave assurance of strict narcotic screening at the ...

  • USA Regno Unito

    The Myth Of UK-US ‘Special Relationship’

    When UK Prime Minister Theresa May became the first foreign leader to visit US President Donald Trump at the White House last month, few in Britain remained impassive. For critics of May’s first appointment with America’s 45th commander-in-chief, the trip was nothing short of a political embarrassment. With the UK’s ...

  • Nigeria

    Trader Bags 10 Years For Drug Trafficking

    Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday convicted and sentenced a Lagos based trader, Okwudili Eboro to 10 years imprisonment for drug trafficking. The judge handed down the verdict after Eboro pleaded guilty to a one count charge of illicit drug dealing brought against him by the ...