Nigeria news today headlines update Monday 21st October 2019
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Chile Protests Continue After Gov’t Renegades On Fare Hike
Protests in Chile have spilled over into a new day even after the president cancelled a subway fare hike that prompted massive and violent demonstrations. The governor of the Santiago region says three people died in a fire at a looted supermarket early Sunday. It’s one of 60 Walmart-owned outlets that have been vandalized and
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Central Bank Injects $325M, 14M Yuan Into Currency Market
Nigeria’s central bank on Friday injected $325.5 million and 14 million yuan renminbi ($1.98 million) into the market in an effort to keep it stable and prevent shortages. A central bank spokesman said the dollar intervention was for agricultural machinery and industrial raw materials, while the yuan renminbi was for renminbi-denominated letters of credit, Reuters
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Africa’s Public Debt Load Is Stabilising – IMF
Sub-Saharan Africa’s public debt load is stabilising but the region’s economies face mounting headwinds due to slowing global growth that will weigh on exports, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. The IMF has previously warned of the continent’s rising debt burden, largely the result of borrowing to plug gaping budget deficits in mineral-
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UK Insists Brexit Will Happen On Oct. 31
The British government insisted on Sunday the country will leave the European Union on Oct. 31 despite a letter that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced by parliament to send to the bloc requesting a Brexit delay. The Brexit maelstrom has spun wildly in the past week between the possibility of an orderly exit on
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Shell Egypt To Liquidate Assets
Royal Dutch Shell plans to sell its onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert to focus on expanding its Egyptian offshore gas exploration, Shell Egypt said on Sunday, Reuters reports. Having won three oil and two gas concessions in Egypt last February, senior executive last week told Reuters that the company would start operating the
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Hong Kong Protesters, Police Exchange Tear Gas
Hong Kong riot police and protesters exchanged tear gas and petrol bombs on Sunday as an illegal anti-government march that attracted tens of thousands descended into chaos, with hundreds of shops trashed and Chinese banks and metro stations targeted. After two weeks of relative calm, the major rally showed that the pro-democracy campaign has not
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘The Greatest Showman’ Still Strong At U.K. Box Office
This week on the U.K. albums chart, only one new title begins its time inside the uppermost tier while two favorites return to the region after hovering just below for several frames. English rock band Elbow is back at number 1 with their new release Giants of All Sizes, which easily debuts in the first place. The
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South Africa Plans On Keeping Coal In Power Generation
South Africa’s plans to boost electricity generation over the next decade will be a mix of renewable energy and coal power, Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Friday, as nationwide power cuts entered the third day. The long-awaited Integrated Resource Plan published on Friday replaces a previous blueprint that had not been updated in almost
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Ebola Concentrated In Congo Mining Area
Ebola is infecting and killing people in a gold mining area of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the “complex and dangerous” outbreak still constitutes an international emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The virus has infected 3,227 people and killed 2,154 of them since the outbreak was declared in August
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U.S. Lawmaker Calls For Boeing Management Restructuring After 737 MAX Crashes
The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Friday said Boeing Co must shake-up its management team and Congress must reform how new airplanes are certified following the disclosure of internal messages about the 737 MAX involved in two deadly crashes. Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat, sharply criticized the largest U.S. airplane […]
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