Lebanon

Boston, Massachusetts – The Universal Human Rights International (UHRI), through its Free Liberia Movement has announced it will launch the Liberian Bicentennial Awareness Campaign in Boston and Monrovia on December 2, 2021, the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.

Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and territories, and a global lineup of fugitives, con artists and murderers.

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.

LOVE I Got For You singer, Shenseea, says she has no intentions of jumping ship on former manager Romeich Major or the Romeich Entertainment label. But will, in fact, still be working closely with them.

Earlier this week, news surfaced she had acquired the services of Lebanese-Canadian music executive Wassim "Sal" Slaiby as manager. Slaiby, the CEO and founder of XO Recordings, manages a roster of acts, including multi-platinum-selling singer The Weeknd, Doja Cat, and Brandy.

The Government of Liberia has placed a travel restriction on Lebanese Businessman George Haddad, Patricia Fahnbulleh and Professor Dew Tuan-Wleh Mayson.

The government’s action is in the wake of report that the Grand Jury of Montserrado County has indicted the mentioned persons for over US$250,000 theft.

But Professor Mayson, one of the indictees is reportedly in Nigeria and government lawyers are currently seeking his extradition through an INTERPOOL’s arrest warrant to compel his prosecution in the country.

Washington – US President Joe Biden on Monday named Dr. Raj Panjabi to lead the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). 

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has unveiled his new lover, a Lebanese-Nigerian, Lilian Olajumoke Ellas.

Mr Fani-Kayode revealed her identity on his official Twitter and Instagram handles on Friday and described her as ‘‘The Real Deal’’.

Ms Ellas is a beauty entrepreneur and owner of Lillies Salon and Spa, located in Abuja.

Access Bank hopes to leverage the markets in eight of the countries on its expansion line-up in exploring the opportunities of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) that came into force January 1.

The lender will utilise the fewer trade restrictions, removal of a couple of regulatory bottlenecks and other trade liberalisation features that the AfCTA offers in tapping value from some economies of high potential on the continent, Herbert Wigwe, Access Bank’s group managing director, said Tuesday at a virtual investment forum.

Grand Cape Mount Senator Cllr. Varney G. Sherman has finally broken silence on a recently imposed economic and financial sanction on him by the US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Senator Sherman the sanction by the United States has destroyed his law practice.

In a communication to plenary on Tuesday, January 14, 2021, Senator Sherman said most of his clients have terminated their attorney client relationship with the firm.

Access Bank also announced definitive agreements to bolster its market position in Mozambique and enter the South African market.
The post Access Bank to become holding company; moves into South African market appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.