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Nigeria
Jubilee-Life unveils rent-to-own for business owners
Jubilee-Life Mortgage Bank Limited has unveiled an initiative known as ‘rent-to-own your shop’ for business owners and market women. According to the firm, the initiative was recently inaugurated by the Lagos State Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Gbolahan Lawal, in Ijaiye-Ojokoro, where a modern complex made up of 336 lock-up shops ...
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USA Nigeria
Task force uncovers baby factory in Plateau
Ojogbane Audu, Jos operatives of Operation Safe Haven, the Special Task Force deployed to restore law and order in Plateau and Bauchi states, uncovered a baby factory in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Saturday. Our correspondent gathered that the discovery was made possible through a tip-off by residents, who ...
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Nigeria
Osinbajo to declare building material trade expo open
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is expected to declare the first ‘Made-in-Nigeria Building Material Trade Expo’ in Lagos, open, the organiser has said. The organiser and publisher of Global Homes Magazine, Mrs. Roni Akins, said in a statement that the event, with theme: ‘Buy Nigeria to build Nigeria’, would ...
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Nigeria
Averting the next bailout
•The problem is not funds per se; government must make the business environment friendly NOTHING exemplifies the dilemma facing the Federal Government than its latest round of lifelines to the two beleaguered but key sectors of textile/garment and aviation. We refer to the latest package of N51 billion in the ...
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Nigeria
Compulsory Insurance Alone Can’t Drive Penetration – IT Expert
The Managing Director of Pinet Informatics, Engr. Lanre Ajayi, has said Nigerians must be persuaded to buy insurance products and services and not by compulsion as it is being done in the insurance industry, through the enforcement of compulsory insurances. Speaking in Lagos last week, Ajayi said people must see ...
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Nigeria
Growing The Economy Through Forex Allocation
While Nigeria faces shortage of foreign exchange, it is essential that critical sectors of the economy that would spur growth and development have access to dollars in order to speed up the recovery of the the nation’s economy. Last year, Nigeria was officially said to be in recession although the ...
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Nigeria
Stop Enrolment Of Children Below 6 Years In Schools, Proprietor Urges NASS
A school proprietor, Malam Aliyu Badmus, has called on the National Assembly to make a law prohibiting parents from enrolling children under the age of six in schools. Badmus told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on yesterday in Ilorin that the falling standard of education in the country was ...
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Thailandia
SET opens up 3.96 to 1,581.80
Thai stocks opened up 0.25% at the start of trade this morning.
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Giappone
January saw Japan’s first trade deficit in five months, at ¥1.09 trillion
Japan posted its first goods trade deficit in five months in January, logging red ink of ¥1.09 trillion ($9.7 billion), as imports increased more than exports on rising commodity prices, the government said Monday. Imports marked their first gain in 25 months, up 8.5 percent from a year earlier to ...
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Giappone
Apple’s upcoming iPhone release keeping Foxconn unit vibrant
Growing optimism about the next iPhone has propelled Apple Inc. to record highs. Halfway around the globe, a lesser-known Taiwanese company is riding that same wave of euphoria. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the main assembler of the U.S. company’s smartphones, has gained 29 percent in the past year, with ...