Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Fidelity Bank Supports SMEs With Unique Empowerment Schemes
Fidelity Bank Plc has supported the Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) with unique empowerment schemes in a bid to expand these businesses. As Nigeria grapples with an absurdly high unemployment rate, the situation has inadvertently provided a ray of hope, as evidenced by an astronomical rise in business development ideas among ...
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Stakeholders Call For Economic Reforms In Nigeria
The need to create enabling environment for business to thrive, access capital, constant power supply, good transport network, good access to markets as well as innovations have been identified as lasting solutions that can help transform Nigeria economically. This was the submission made by array of panelists at the Kano ...
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AfCFTA: NFVCB, Nollywood Stakeholders Propose Basis For Implementation
The National Film and Video Censor Board (NFVCB) and film makers on Saturday made proposals for implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as it affects the Nigerian film industry. The positions were submitted at a roundtable with film industry stakeholders on AfCTA /Nigeria Office for Trade Negotiations ...
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FTAN Sets Up Probe Panel For Lagos Chapter
The Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN) has set up a probe panel to look into the finance of the Lagos State chapter. Inaugurating the three-man probe panel, the Chairman Board of Trustees of the federation, Chief Samuel Alabi said the panel was set up to review the finances ...
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Chinet conference to bring Aviation, Cargo, Export Stakeholders together
Plans are at advance stage for4 the 2021 Chinet conference aimed at bringing together stakeholders from the aviation, cargo and export conference sectors. The event, the first of its kind, will hold on 25th and 26th of August 2021 in Lagos. The conference has earned the support of the Federal ...
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Lagos Tourism Master-plan Sets Development Template in Nigeria
Lagos State prides itself in being futuristic and ambitious in transforming the state into a 21st century economy built on rapid infrastructural development and provision of economic opportunities for the teeming residents. However, for the state to continue to tick and make progress, conscious futuristic plans have to be put ...
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NASS Poised To Reposition NDIC –Sani
The National Assembly will map out strategies to further strengthen the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Cooperation (NDIC) and reposition it to contribute more effectively to the economic recovery efforts of the country, the chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Uba Sani, has said. Senator Sani stated ...
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CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH: Nigeria’s Growing Drug Habit
A few days ago, Federal Ministry of Health, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the European Union launched two publications to enhance the quality of counselling and treatment services to drug users in Nigeria. Nigeria’s fragile and overburdened health system is ...
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UBA’s Strong Presence In 20 African Countries, Game Changer For Diaspora Remittances
For decades, remittances from Nigerians living abroad have significantly increased domestic income, social welfare and economic development. The economic benefits of remittance inflows have similarly proven to be instrumental in funding cash and non-cash investments thereby fostering new businesses, servicing debts and essentially, drive economic growth. The Central Bank of ...
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Governor Lalong Signs 4 Bills On Autonomy And Land Administration Into Law
Plateau State governor, Simon Bako Lalong has signed 4 bills passed by the Plateau State House of Assembly into law at the New Government House, Little Rayfield Jos. The bills signed into law include Plateau State Legislative Funds Management Law; Plateau State Judiciary Funds Management Law; Plateau State Property and ...
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Airtel Renews Mobile License For 10 Yrs
Airtel Nigeria has renewed its mobile operating licence for another 10 years, promising to build inclusive communities as part of its corporate social investments. Speaking in Lagos during the media launch of ‘Airtel Touching Lives 6’, chief executive officer, Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, said the company is committed to empowering ...
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Comercio, turismo y restaurantes sufren por restricciones
El presidente de la Cámara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura (Cciap), José Ramón Icaza, cuestionó ayer el mantenimiento de las restricciones de movilidad en el país y destacó el impacto que siguen causando en la economía.
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5G Will Transform, Grow Nigeria’s Digital Economy – NCC Boss
Executive vice chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof Garba Umar Danbatta, has restated that the deployment of the 5G technology will initiate several new changes in mobile connectivity with enormous capacity to boost productivity and grow the Nigerian economy. The NCC boss said this while delivering the ...
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Setting Up A Computer Business Centre
A computer business centre is an office where you carry out secretarial and administrative works which can be related to record keeping and documentations of files. A computer business centre in Nigeria is also popularly known as Photocopy Shops. They render services to individuals, schools, offices, institutions and administrative agencies ...
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NEPZA To Boost Sokoto Economy With Special Economic Zone
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has said it was diligently deploying the Special Economic Zone Scheme to revolutionise the Sokoto State economic space. NEPZA managing director, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, made the disclosure while taking delivery of Certificate-of-Occupancy of 503.8 hectares of land for the proposed world-class special economic ...
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[EDITORIAL] Reforming States’ Internally Generated Revenue Measures
Currently, the Nigerian state is struggling to meet its basic financial obligations to the citizenry. As a stop-gap measure, managers of the economy have resorted to a borrowing spree, which has seen them access money from the pension fund, China, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), multilateral agencies such as ...
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States To Begin Repayment Of Bailout Loans This Month
National Economic Council (NEC) yesterday received updates on the federal government’s Budget Support Facility to states as the minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said the repayment of the loans begins this month. She told the council that with the agreement reached on the loans with the ...
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Confiança do comerciante sobe novamente e volta à zona de satisfação
A confiança do comerciante brasileiro subiu pela segunda vez consecutiva em julho, de acordo com o Índice de Confiança do Empresário do Comércio (Icec), apurado pela Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC). “O indicador seguiu ascendendo em um ritmo forte, com avanço de 11,7% em relação ao ...
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Crédito Agrícola reavalia idoneidade de José António dos Santos
A comissão de avaliação da Caixa de Crédito Agrícola Mútuo da Lourinhã vai reavaliar a idoneidade do presidente não executivo do Conselho de Administração, José António dos Santos, que foi constituído arguido na operação "Cartão Vermelho".
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Emefiele’s Footprints In The Economy
At the time Mr Godwin Emefiele assumed office as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in June 2014, he was almost immediately confronted by high inflation, falling oil revenue as well as value-eroding local currency as speculators and round-trippers held sway. In fact, the country was slipping into ...
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A Peep Into Emefiele-led CBN
Not a few economic analysts agree that there is urgent need for fiscal measures to complement efforts of the monetary authorities in reflating the Nigerian economy. Some have even accused the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of involving itself too far in performing fiscal functions. Those who hold such view ...