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By Princewill Ekwujuru Paga, an emerging markets payment company said it is targeting 1 billion persons to be able to access and use money through its platform as it plans to expand to Ethiopia and Mexico. Speaking at a webinar Media Roundtable in Lagos, Tuesday, Paga’s Co-Founder, Jay Alabraba, said that there are five core values that form the guiding principles of how the company’s business operates which are premised on collaboration, ownership, result-oriented, integrity, and innovation (CORII). He stated that with Paga the company is helping to solve two key problems that exist arou...

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has praised India for taking "very decisive" steps to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences and asked the country to do more this year to support an accelerated transformation of the economy. Participating in a global media roundtable on Thursday, the chief of the International Monetary Fund predicted a less bad outlook for India in the upcoming World Economic Update due to the steps taken by it. When I called on everybody to stay tuned for January 26, that applies very much to India. You would see a picture in our updat...

Press Operations Dec. 21, 2020 Gen McKenzie Good afternoon, everybody. It's General Frank McKenzie. Good to talk to you today. As Bill said, we are on travel in the AOR, and I just finished what I thought was a very good visit to Iraq and Syria. In Baghdad, I had the opportunity to meet with our ambassador, Ambassador Tueller, with the commander of CJTF OIR Lieutenant General Paul Calvert, and then the Iraqi Chief of Defense Staff, General Abdul Amir (Yarallah) and those were all good meetings. I was very pleased with all of those. Then I had the opportunity to get out and visit some ...

Going to happen with it and try to improve that economy in that section of manhattan. >> let's do this. let's get some folks at home, wherever you are right now, to weigh in on this at the blog, cnn.com/tony. josh, help us work through some of these blog comments later on. thank you. day 86 of the gulf oil disaster and bp plans to test a new cap on the busted oil well. well, that plan is on hold right now. officials say they need to review the testing procedures before they move forward. the hope is that the massive custom designed cap might contain the flow of oil or allow most of it to be ...

Inhabitants, for a city that covers almost 139 square miles. a space that san francisco, boston and manhattan could fit in with room to spare. there are so many factors contributing to the city's financial distress but among them, an 18.2% unemployment rate and there is this. the detroit news reported this week that nearly half of the city's owners of residential properties failed to pay their tax bills last year, amounting to nearly $250 million uncollected. no taxes, no revenue. even if everyone had a job in the city and they all paid all their taxes it wouldn't be enough because there simpl...