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Kenya
Business: Bitter outcome for KQ directors after Awori exit
When Dennis Awori presided over his last event as a director of Kenya Airways, he termed the past months as a period of painful decisions.
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Giappone Spagna
Foes cry bribery as Spain developer vows to pay Vermont voters who back wind farm
Political style yard-signs with the giant word “NO” over the image of a wind turbine pop up on roads leading into the southern Vermont town of Grafton, evidence that yet another community in the state is debating whether to become home to an industrial wind farm. But added to an ...
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Giappone
Funds to help pipeline protesters start modest, soar past $1 million but more needed
The crowdsourcing goal was modest: $5,000, enough to help a few dozen people camping in North Dakota to protest the nearby construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The fund has since topped a staggering $1 million. The fund is among several cash streams that have provided at least ...
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USA Giappone
NY law targeting commercial operators of illegal hotels seen hurting small-scale Anrbnb ranks
Jordan Reeves works for a nonprofit and his partner is a puppeteer. They say there’s not a lot of spare income floating around their Brooklyn apartment. That’s why they sometimes rent the place through Airbnb for extra cash when they’re not there. But a new law that carries fines of ...
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Giappone
Judge rejects bid by top four U.S. airlines to dismiss price-fixing suit filed by passengers
A federal judge rejected a bid by the four largest U.S. airlines to dismiss nationwide antitrust litigation by passengers who accused them of conspiring to raise fares by keeping seating capacity artificially low. In a decision late Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she could “reasonably infer the ...
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Nigeria
Gombe target continental ticket
Idris Adesina Newly-promoted Premier League side, Gombe United, have said their eyes are set on winning one of the continental tickets in the league next season. Gombe, along with Remo Stars and Katsina United, got promotion to the Nigerian topflight after winning their division in the Nigeria National League. Coach ...
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Nigeria
The judiciary and the DSS raid
Nigeria is at a cross roads in our march to nationhood. We are faced with critical questions whose resolution will determine our ability to take our place in the comity of civilised nations. These questions focus more on the software of democracy especially about the rule of law and its ...
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Nigeria
LASG shuts water packaging factories
Sesan Olufowobi The Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LSWRC) has sealed off facilities of some water service providers in the state for alleged non-compliance with the state’s water sector law. The LSWRC stated on Sunday that the action was as a result of the determination of the government to ensure ...
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Nigeria
NPA Generates N84.7bn From Eastern Ports In 9 Years
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has collected a total sum of $481million (N76.9billion at prevailing rate of N160 per dollar ) and N7.81billion respectively from the Eastern Ports in nine years (2006-2015). The revenue collected from 2006-2015 was generated in local and foreign currencies (dollars) in the years under review. ...
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Nigeria
Biafra clamour illegal, says minister
•Igbo leaders: respect Igbo, release Kanu Those clamouring for a Republic of Biafra are doing so without the mandate of Igbo people. Besides, they are carrying out an illegal activity, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama said at the weekend He advised the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign ...