Iran

The Lagos State Government has begun the construction of a cultural village in Iran, Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.

Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the cultural village on Saturday, Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, the commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, said the project would activate the rich, diverse culture and heritage resources in Alimosho.

Ms Akinbile-Yusuf noted that this would promote the sustainable development of tourism as a viable sector of the economy.

Dar es Salaam. President’s Samia Suluhu Hassan’s maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly (Unga), has been mentioned among the seven most important during the session.
On September 23, President Samia Suluhu Hassan addressed Unga’s 76th session in New York, USA this week.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s speech has been selected by American website ‘Foreign Policy (FP)’ among the most important addresses at the assembly and the only one from a female head of state.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has granted emergency-use-authorisation for three COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria.

The three additional vaccines approved are Moderna, AstraZeneca and the Sputnik V vaccine yet to receive approval from the World Health Organisation.

The NAFDAC director-general, Mojisola Adeyeye, announced this at a briefing in Abuja on Thursday.

In the 10 months after the One Year Barbados visa for remote work launched, it processed some 2,500 applications, earned $6 million for government coffers, and raked in at least $100 million worth of tourism revenue for the country, eclipsing the roughly $70 million intake from cruise ships in a typical year, according to one of the visa’s architects.

The One Year Barbados visa was among the first of six programmes targeting remote workers that sprang up in the  Eastern Caribbean during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force’s long-delayed onsite visit to the the Virgin Islands is scheduled for July 2022, and Financial Services Commission officials said a flurry of activity is ongoing behind the scenes to ensure that the VI complies with the watchdog organisation’s recommendations.

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Analysts at the US bank Goldman Sachs have raised the price forecast of crude oil by $10 per barrel for the second and third quarters of 2021.

They base the prediction on the fall in supply and rising costs.

Goldman Sachs said on Monday that Brent is likely to average $65/bl in the second quarter and $75/bl in the third quarter.

Its previous forecasts were $10/bl lower in each case.

The self-esteem of two-year-olds and nation-states is too fragile for them to admit they were wrong, which makes it hard for them to move on from blunders. That’s why the toys don’t get picked up and the broken treaties don’t get fixed and why there may be a tantrum (in the case of two-year-olds) or a nuclear war (in the case of the United States and Iran).

APC had been in the hands of the caretaker for a while now. Are you content with the way it is being managed?