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Nigeria Gets $5.34b Highest Payment Globally From Shell In 2024
New Telegraph
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May 16, 2025
Share Nigeria received $5.34 billion from Shell in 2024, marking the highest payment the energy giant made to any country worldwide in 2025. This amount represents a significant increase from the $3.8 billion paid to Nigeria in 2023. Shell’s total...
Shell confirms it paid Nigeria $5.34bn in taxes, charges in 2024, its highest government payout globally
Nairametrics
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May 16, 2025
Energy major Shell Plc paid $5.34 billion to the Nigerian government in 2024, the largest amount it remitted to any country, even as it continues to divest from its onshore oil operations in Africa’s largest crude producer. According to data...
A historic course correction: how the world’s shipping sector is setting sail for net zero
UN News
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May 15, 2025
Every day, tens of thousands of massive ships criss-cross the world’s oceans, transporting grain, clothing, electronics, cars, and countless other products. Nearly 90 per cent of global cargo is moved this way. But this vital industry comes with...
A Roadmap for Capitalizing on AI Transformation Opportunities in the Banking Sector
Banking Dive
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Africans less likely to blame rich nations for climate crisi...
Modern Ghana
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A major opinion survey across Africa shows that many people place primary responsibility for climate action on their national governments. Although the continent has contributed relatively little to global emissions, it is enduring some of the...
Ado Wanka: Corporate industry guru
Daily Trust
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May 10, 2025
Alhaji Ado Yakubu Wanka was a business and industry guru whose career traversed the corporate world, especially in Nigeria. Noted for his experience and professionalism, Wanka was a seasoned banker with over 30 years of managerial experience...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, March 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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May 6, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
A Hands-On Guide to AI Adoption in Corporate Finance & Accounting
CFO Dive
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US Sanctions Hit ‘Shadow Fleet’ Ships Transporting Iranian Oil to China, UK Targets Russia
SeaNews
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May 9, 2025
US and UK sanctions targeting Iran’s exports of crude oil and products to China and Russia, respectively, will be felt by oil refineries and tankers. For the first time, US has targeted terminal operators in China’s Shandong Province and two...
Podcast: Should We Unleash GMO Mosquitoes?
Undark Magazine
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December 16, 2024
Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Should we unleash GMO mosquitoes? The technology to make these insects has gotten better and easier in recent years, raising ecological and ethical quandaries....
UNESCO World Day of Portuguese Language celebrated
The Nation
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May 8, 2025
ISLAMABAD - Ambassador of Portugal Frederico Silva and Ambassador of Brazil Olyntho Vieira on Wednesday celebrated the Portuguese Language Day. Every 5th May is celebrated as the UNESCO World Portuguese Language Day and the Culture of the...
UNESCO World Portuguese Language Day celebrated
Associated Press of Pakistan
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May 6, 2025
- Advertisement - ISLAMABAD, May 06 (APP):The UNESCO World Portuguese Language Day and Culture of the Lusophone Countries is celebrated here on Monday by highlighting the global presence, cultural richness, and unifying power of the Portuguese...
The Rise of AI in Modern Finance
CFO Dive
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Who Do Africans Trust Most? Surveys Show It’s Not The State (more Likely Th
The Nigerian Voice
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A recent Afrobarometer study has shown declining trust in public institutions over the past decade among African citizens. Study findings call into question the credibility and legitimacy of state institutions like the presidency, parliament and...
CPLP: Angolan minister calls for cooperation between Portuguese, local languages
Macau Business
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May 6, 2025
Angola’s minister of culture, Filipe Zau, on Monday caled for members of Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) to make efforts to establish “concrete forms” of cooperation between Portuguese and the other languages spoken in their...
Tripoli PM Aldabaiba closes 25 embassies, suspends overseas education scholarships and limits overseas conference participation – as part of hard currency savings drive
Libya Herald
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May 1, 2025
As part of his drive to protect the foreign exchange value of the Libyan dinar, Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, is reducing his government’s hard currency spending by closing embassies, suspending overseas state...
How CFOs Can Use Supply Chain Solutions to Grow Revenue
CFO Dive
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Revolutionizing Finance with AI: Efficiency, Accuracy, and Growth
CFO Dive
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Martin Clunes: 'I often wonder about my next job - I wish I could silence that'
The i paper
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May 2, 2025
Martin Clunes is rarely more than a few feet away from an animal of one description or other – not if he can help it, anyway. It could be a giant hermaphrodite snail on a little-known African island, it could be a baby sperm whale frolicking in...
Asif Afridi: ‘There’s still a level of inequality within civil society’
Civil Society Media
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Asif Afridi has just stepped into his first chief executive role, leading the more than a century old grantmaker, the Barrow Cadbury Trust. Still in “assessment stage” at his new employer, Afridi draws from more than 20 years’ experience at...