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For nurses coming to work in Britain from overseas, a key requirement is always going to be proficiency in English. A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) spokesperson noted that under European legislation the NMC “is not allowed to ask EU [European Union]-trained EU nationals to demonstrate language competency as a requirement for registration in the UK.”…

THE MIDDLE East cosmetics market is weathering the region’s current political and economic instability in the region. While the markets in the Levant are experiencing tough times, Gulf sales continue to grow. Retailers and manufacturers are also offsetting the losses incurred in depressed and unstable countries by exporting to burgeoning African markets.…

THE UNITED States’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is to go into force on July 1. Aimed at curbing tax evasion by US citizens around the world, foreign financial institutions (FFIs) are required to report on US account holders, but over 200,000 FFIs and 123 countries have not yet signed up.…

The poor health and welfare reputation of Nigeria’s abattoirs and meat processors has undermined the reputation of its meat sector, helping reduce exports to a derisory level.

It is a problem, because livestock accounts for one-third of Nigeria’s agricultural GDP, providing income, employment, food, farm energy, manure, fuel and transport.…

Nigeria’s minister of mines and steel has told Steel First that his government intends to push ahead with its policy of developing comprehensive backward integration for the country’s iron and steel sectors.

The plan had been unveiled on January 23 by mines and steel minister Architect Musa Mohammed Sada, with Nigeria’s industry minister, at a forum in Lagos on the ‘transformation of minerals, iron and steel sub-sector for industrial revolution in Nigeria.’…

Coca Cola Nigeria Limited and its bottling partner the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) have rebuffed claims from a consumer agency that they have produced Sprite that is potentially harmful to consumers. Speaking to just-drinks, Mrs Adeyanju Olomola, head of public affairs and communications for NBC said both companies always complied with the country’s laws and regulatory requirements.…

AFTER six years of financing some of the largest infrastructure projects across Africa, a groundbreaking multilateral development institution – the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) – has attained its investment grade international credit rating. Moody’s Investors Service assigned the corporation an A3 (long term) /P2 (short term) foreign currency debt rating, making the AFC, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria the second highest investment grade rated financial institution based on the African continent, following the long-established Africa Development Bank (ADB).…

ALTHOUGH two-thirds of vaccine research and development (R&D) globally is carried out by European firms, manufacturers in China, India and Brazil are becoming increasingly muscular and “moving from dependency to self-sufficiency” experts at a two-day conference in Brussels on vaccine research heard last week.…

TURKEY’S paints and coatings industry has set itself the target of becoming the third largest paints and coatings sector in Europe by 2023 as it seeks to become a key regional hub within the international industry as a whole.

According to data from Turkey’s Association of Paint Industry (Boya Sanayicileri Dernegi – BOSAD), the size of the Turkish paints and coatings market reached 840,000 tonnes in 2012, with a value of USD2 billion.…

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…