Substitute goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga saved captain Raul Albiol’s spot-kick at Windsor Park on a night that began superbly for the Blues with an excellent first-half performance before the Spaniards stormed back into the contest after the break. Hakim Ziyech opened the scoring for the Blues midway through the opening 45 minutes but was then forced…
The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Jerome Pasquier, on Wednesday lauded Ogun Government on its public/ private partnership and agricultural development initiative, geared toward industrialisation, job creation and economic development. Pasquire made the remark while inspecting Fan Milk Dairy Farm at Odeda Farm Institute, Eweje, and an aquaculture hub at the Obasanjo Farm Settlement, Owiwi,…
The Federal Government has trained 20 yam farmers in Ebonyi on new production technique known as the “sackbag’’ yam production. The training, which was organised by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) was held in Abakaliki on Wednesday. The Trust Africa News report that farmers were drawn from the 13 local government…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledges there was rampant state corruption while he was deputy to former president Jacob Zuma, but says he did not resign as that would have hampered his efforts to resist the rot. Ramaphosa was appearing before a judicial panel on Wednesday probing the alleged mass looting of state coffers during…
China should reduce business drinking and replace it with “correct values,” the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog said in a commentary on a sexual assault case involving employees with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Some “under the table rules” such as forced drinking for business purposes may lead to crimes, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection…
Great Wall Motor has decided to re-allocate to Brazil a portion of its $1bn investment in India, as the Chinese automaker has been unnerved by a year-long delay in winning government approvals, three sources told Reuters. Great Wall has also tasked James Yang, its India president since last year, with the responsibility of assisting with…
A Boeing 737 MAX test plane took to the skies in China as the United States manufacturer looks to end a nearly two-and-a-half-year regulatory grounding of the model in the key travel market. Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed a 737 MAX 7 test plane taking off from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport at 9:24am (01:24 GMT) on…
US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc beat market estimates for second-quarter profit boosted by a near 38 percent jump in trading volumes on a sequential basis, but forecast a drop in current-quarter volumes. Coinbase, which makes money by charging fees on trades and which has benefitted from the growing adoption of digital assets, said on…
Stakeholders have called on government at all levels to deepen their commitment to building resilience in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises as the subsector was critical to the economic recovery of the country. The stakeholders made this call at a national dialogue on the economic impact of COVID-19 and assessment of national, state recovery…
