The International Monetary Fund lowered its world growth estimates for 2016 and 2017 on Tuesday, citing the negative impact of Britain’s vote to quit the European Union. Here are the IMF’s new forecasts for percent growth of gross domestic product, with the change in percentage points from April in parentheses. Country/region 2016 2017 World 3.1 (-0.1) 3.4 (-0.1) Advanced economies …

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Diseases such as colorectal cancer, liver cancer ,helicobacter pyloris and other infections that occur in the gastrointestinal(GI) tract are usually not easy to detect when looking out for signs and symptoms. And even when the symptoms are obvious its often to late to treat. That is the situation in our hospitals at the moment and doctors treating GI diseases are …

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The Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Awards are the prestigious awards of the European Organisation for Sustainable Development (EOSD) in conjunction with the Government of Karlsruhe (the official “Most Sustainable City” in Germany). The awards, which can be referred to as the Oscars of Sustainability, honours financial institutions and organisations with significant contributions to the field of sustainable finance. The awards aim …

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Sabina Nnaji is an On-Air-Personality who has been around the radio and gospel music industry for some time. In this interview, she entertained questions from a Christian group; Christian Talent Community (CTC), coordinated by OBUS ZALEE, during which she instructed talents on how to market their works and also comport themselves in their various industries. Excerpts: Obus: Many talents today …

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Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, over the weekend arrested the suspected member of an eight-man robbery gang, Abdullahi Olanrewaju, 30, during their operations at Abeje and Onibeju Streets, off Capitol road in Agege Local Government area of the state. The operatives, who were led to the scene of the robbery by Inspector Anthony Inege, noted …

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed its determination to raise the participation of retail investors in the Nigerian Capital market as that is one of the critical ways of deepening the market. Director General of SEC, Mounir Gwarzo stated this when the Management of the Commission visited the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) on an advocacy visit on the 10 year Capital Market …

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Against the multiplicity of tax regime in the domestic economy, speakers at the 8th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series have charged the Federal Government on the need to ensure an inclusive, simplified and automated tax regime in the country. The lead speaker, Adebimpe Balogun, who was the first female president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), …

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The Federal Government said, yesterday, that procurement procedure and low revenue were responsible for the delay in capital releases to service the 2016 Budget. The Minister of Budget and Planning, Senator   Udoma Udoma, disclosed this, in Abuja, while briefing the Sen. Danjuma Goje-led   Senate Committee on Appropriations, on the  2016 budget implementation. He lamented the level of performance …

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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from the Jubilee field is set to continue its dominance in the local gas market despite the indigenous product being more expensive than imported ones. Commercial gas production from the Jubilee field, which is processed at the Ghana National Gas Company’s Gas Processing Plant at Atuabo raised the prospects of a price war in the supply …

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We have all, at one time or another, had cause to hear or maybe even use this age-old saying, “A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country.” These words, spoken by the Lord Jesus, aptly summarise the story of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s sojourn in the corridors of executive power in Nigeria. Our prophet (for so she must be …

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