“Only one out of five people are actually accessing hearing rehabilitation of those who need it,” said Dr. Shelly Chadha, in charge of WHO’s work on prevention of deafness and hearing loss, speaking to journalists in Geneva on Friday. Ahead of World Hearing Day, marked on 3 March, she recalled …
Read More »US to invest $600m in private investments, infrastructure in Africa
David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The envoy spoke while fielding questions in view of the growing moves by countries to form global alliance towards introduction of new economic trade separate from the …
Read More »Your investments are safe in Nigeria – President Tinubu tells Saudi investors
President Bola Tinubu has assured potential investors that their investments are safe in Nigeria. Speaking at the Saudi-Africa Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, November 10, President Tinubu said Nigeria is ready for business while assuring investors of some of the world’s highest returns on investment. …
Read More »Biden Travels to Minnesota to Highlight Rural Investments
President Biden on Wednesday began a tour of rural communities at a Minnesota hog farm where he lamented the loss of family farms, attacked the corporate consolidation of agriculture and pledged to oversee a renaissance of the American heartland. The president’s efforts to focus attention on the domestic economy ahead …
Read More »?Start with a clean slate, make your assets and investments public – SERAP Tells Tinubu
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the President-Elect Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “start with a clean slate by promptly making public details of your assets, income, investments, liabilities, and interests and to encourage your Vice-President-Elect to do the same.” In the open letter dated Saturday, 27 May …
Read More »NFT Games Saw $1.73B Worth of Investments in 2022, 3x More than Last Year | Sportslens.com
NFT Games Saw $1.73B Worth of Investments in 2022, 3x More than Last Year | Sportslens.com United States Search The query length is limited to …
Read More »Thurrock council admits disastrous investments caused £500m deficit
A Tory-led council has admitted a series of disastrous investments in risky commercial projects caused it to run up an unprecedented deficit of nearly £500m and brought it to the brink of bankruptcy. The staggering scale of the catastrophe at Thurrock council in Essex – one of the biggest ever …
Read More »Republicans Should Follow Florida’s Lead on ESG Investments
By Mike Viola (The Center Square) The months-long standoff between Republican officials and asset managers over Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) investing deepened this week, as South Carolina announced plans to pull $200 million out of funds run by BlackRock, the nation’s largest asset manager. This comes less than a week …
Read More »Nigerians are eating home-grown rice – President Buhari says as he applauds his administration’s policies and investments
President Buhari has applauded his administration’s agricultural policies. In a series of tweets shared on Friday July 15, Buhari stated that because of his administration’s policies and investments, Nigeria is today much better prepared to cope with the inevitable disruptions in global agricultural supply chains occasioned by Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine …
Read More »Reforms Are Imposed on U.N. Agency That Made Questionable Investments
After a series of puzzling financial decisions that put tens of millions of dollars at risk, the executive board of a little-heralded United Nations agency took the rare step on Friday of voting to swiftly enforce a series of reforms. The actions by the board of the Office for Project …
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