Tag: Japan
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2018 World Cup: Japan sacks coach
Japan on Monday named respected veteran Akira Nishino as its new national football manager, taking an “emergency measure” after sensationally dumping Vahid Halilhodzic only two months before the World Cup. The 63-year-old Nishino boasts an impressive array of domestic silverware and masterminded one of Japanese football’s proudest moments: beating a Brazil side containing Ronaldo and…
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Ambode visits Japan, woos investors on transportation, urban development
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State is holding talks with the Japan-African Union Parliamentary Friendship Committee in Tokyo on how to improve transportation in the state. Ambode, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Habib Aruna, said the meeting which was to woo Japanese investors, was being attended by two members of…
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Sad! Godzilla passes on
Nakajima, who appeared as the iconic creature, died of pneumonia on Monday, a spokesman for the studio that produced the Godzilla films revealed. Nakajima who is originally a stuntman, first took on the role of the giant monster awakened by a hydrogen bomb test to rise out of a roiling sea and swim to Japan…
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FUTA, partners launch satellite, NigeriaEdusat-1 into space
At Exactly 10:07 a.m. on Saturday, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned…
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Japan to invest $30bn In Nigeria, others
The Japanese Government has promised to fulfill its $30 billion Public and Private investment pledge made in August 2016 during the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Nairobi, Kenya, which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari. The assurance was given on Thursday by the Japanese Trade and Investment Mission to Nigeria led…
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Japan donates US$3.5 million to WFP for Emergency Needs in Northeast Nigeria
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US $3.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide desperately needed food assistance to tens of thousands of internally displaced people in Northeast Nigeria. The funding allows WFP to deliver food to more than 160,000 people in Borno and Yobe States, where the…