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Report: Visa, Mastercard To Extend Non-EU Card Fee Caps To 2029
Visa and Mastercard will extend caps on tourist card fees agreed five years ago with European Union (EU) antitrust regulators by another five years to 2029, Reuters reported the European Commission as saying on Friday. Visa, the world’s largest payments network operator, and its closest rival Mastercard, in 2019 agreed to a 0.2 per cent…
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Annual Africa-Caribbean Trade Projected To Hit $1.8bn
Trade between Africa and the Caribbean could rise to $1.8 billion per year by 2028 if value addition, trade facilitation and improved logistics are prioritized, according to new research by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). Current bilateral trade in goods between the two regions is worth $729 million. These preliminary…
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Oil Spill: Ogoni Community Count Losses As MOSOP Seeks Intervention
Some residents of Bodo Community in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State have started counting their losses following a fire outbreak from a spill that has burnt farmlands and rivers. The most affected area of the spill and fire is around the neighbourhood of Sugi in Bodo City in the same Gokana, the epicentre…
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Disquiet Over NASS’ Extension of 2023 Budgets Lifespan
Lawyers have expressed fears that the National Assembly’s approval of President Tinubu request for an extension of the implementation period of the 2023 budgets from June 30, 2024 to Dec. 31, 2024 will give way to a lot of leakages, wastage, underhand deals and fraud which will not augur well for the country. FRANCIS IWUCHUKWU…
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FirstBank Ghana Wins Two HESS Awards
FirstBank Ghana has been awarded the Best Company in Risk Management and Reporting and Best Company in Cybersecurity Management at the 6th edition of the Health Environmental Safety & Security (HESS) awards. The HESS award is designed to identify, publicly recognize and celebrate outstanding companies for exceptional performance and innovations focused on Occupational Health, Safety,…
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United Capital Expects Sustained Improvement In Capital Importation
The attraction of high money market and fixed income market rates to foreign investors, occasioned by the country’s high interest rate environment and the hawkish stance of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), will result in sustained improvement in total capital imported into Nigeria, United Capital has predicted. The company stated…
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Fidelity Bank Leads In Sustainability, Climate Report Publication
Fidelity Bank Plc has emerged the first bank to publish its 2023 ISSBCompliant Sustainability and Climate Report in the Nigerian banking industry. Hosted on the bank’s website on June 30, the report provides insights into the bank’s governance, strategy, risk management and metrics. It also provides targets around sustainability and climate-related risks and opportunities, human…
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Court Discharges Army Sergeant of Death Penalty Imposed by Military Court
The Supreme Court has discharged and acquitted an Army Sergeant, Akawu Bala, of the death sentence imposed on him by the General Court Martial of the Nigerian Army. The respite came the way of the embattled Army Sergeant after spending 12 years in Kaduna prison waiting for ratification of the death sentence passed on him….
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2024 Budget: Pro-Wike Assembly Issues 7-Day Ultimatum To Fubara
Amid the ongoing political crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly, the Speaker of the House under the leadership of Martin Amaewhule, has given Governor Siminalayi Fubara a 7-day ultimatum to resubmit the 2024 budget for review. The Amaewhule-led faction of Rivers Assembly gave the directive after the pro-Wike faction convened for their first…
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UK Markets Advance After Labour’s Election Night Sweep
After a historic election night for British politics, there was one word that investors in the City of London kept using to characterise their hope for the next era of UK markets: stability. Money managers said they expected the Labour Party under Keir Starmer would usher in calmer and more moderate policy, turning the page…
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