Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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PIB: Federal Govt, Oil Majors To Meet Over Grey Areas
Major Oil companies in Nigeria have scheduled an emergency meeting with their Joint Venture partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to iron out some grey areas in the just passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). This is as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari ...
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Supreme Court Hears Motion Against $15bn Judgement Oct 7
Supreme Court has fixed October 7, 2021, to hear the motion seeking leave to appeal the £2.556 billion judgement entered by the Federal High Court in 2014 against the Central Bank of Nigeria, Union Bank of Nigeria, the minister of finance and the attorney-general of the federation. The Court of ...
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Lagos Passes Bill To Stop Parade Of Suspects
The Lagos House of Assembly yesterday passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law of the state barring the police from henceforth parading suspects before the media. The bill was passed at a sitting presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, on behalf of the Speaker, Rt. Hon. ...
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Nigeria Targets $1bn From Leather Industry In 2025, Says Osinbajo
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said Nigeria being one of the highest producers of leather and finished leather products in Africa with a projected revenue of US$1 billion by 2025, the industry could become a game-changer for Nigeria’s economy by improving the country’s foreign exchange earnings, boosting growth, and providing ...
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Sociedade de advogados CMS teve receitas globais de 1.475 mil milhões de euros em 2020
Faturação do escritório em Portugal – que se mudou recentemente para a Rua Castilho, em Lisboa - cresceu 5% em termos homólogos. "Foi um ano também de investimento, em tecnologia de ponta, que nos permite dotar a sociedade de ferramentas de última geração, sempre com o intuito de continuar a ...
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3D Construction Market To Gross $1.5bn By 2024 – Adebayo
The Abuja International Housing Show coordinator, Festus Adebayo, has said that the 3D construction market could be worth an estimated $1.5 billion by 2024. This is even as he said the Abuja international housing show would partner Lafarge in promoting 3D Technology for affordable housing. According to him, a revolutionary ...
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JUST-IN: Minister Collapses In Bauchi, Rushed To Hospital
Ambassador Maryam Yalwaji Katagum, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, on Monday, collapsed while on an official assignment in her native Bauchi State. The Minister was in Bauchi to launch an empowerment programme at one of the shopping plazas when she suddenly slumped as she tried to ...
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NEPZA Seeks Partnership With Shippers Council To Boost Non-oil Sector
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has said it was ready to open multiple partnerships with the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) to significantly scale-up the Federal Government’s non-oil sector deliverables for Nigerians. In a statement by the Head, Corporate Communications, NEPZA, Martins Odeh, he said NEPZA’s Managing Director, Prof. ...
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Inclusion Of PEF In PIB Shows NASS Is Sensitive – IPMAN
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, (IPMAN) applauded the decision of the National Assembly to include the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) in the newly passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), saying it is a sign that the legislative arm of government is very sensitive to the yearnings of majority of ...
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Don’t Use Religion To Destroy Nigeria, HIPDET VC Charges Nigeria
The Vice Chancellor of HIPDET University British American business schools, Professor Paul Goodwin has urged Nigerians not to hide under umbrella of religion to destroy the nation adding that we do not have any other country apart from Nigeria. Goodwin gave the advice yesterday, during the order of proceedings Joint ...
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NDLEA Arrests Mother Of 3 With 100 Wraps Of Cocaine
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a Nigerian woman based in Brazil, Mrs. Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private part and handbag. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the woman was arrested ...
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Jigawa As Potential Hub For Mechanised Farming In Nigeria
TUNDE OGUNTOLA and MUHAMMAD ZANGINA KURA take a look at the ongoing transition in Jigawa State from subsistence to mechanised farming as well as efforts geared towards experimenting with new crops to boost yield. The role agriculture has played in Nigeria’s economy cannot be overemphasised. Little wonder agriculture has been ...
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Tech Start-up Bill: Nigeria To Recoup N1.4trn Capital Flight Annually
If passed into law, the proposed Tech Start-up Bill is expected to kickstart the process of retaining the N1.4 trillion ($2.8 billion) spent annually on the procurement of software from foreign countries and thus, boost the nation’s economy, LEADERSHIP Sunday can reveal. The start-up bill designed to present the country’s ...
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AfCFTA ‘ll Reduce Dumping Of Low Quality Products In Nigeria – Minister
Nigeria will no longer be a dumping ground for unidentified products from other African countries once African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is activated. Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo gave the assurance in Asaba as part of activities of a two-day tour of Delta State by ...
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Nigeria’s TeamApt Secures New Funding To Deepen Agency Banking
Nigerian Fintech startup, TeamApt, which provides financial services for the underserved mass market in Africa has announced the completion of its series B funding round. The undisclosed funding will see the company extend its offerings directly to customers and micro-SMEs, giving them access to the financial access lifelines they need ...
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Strengthening Nigeria-UAE Relations With Dubai ‘Expo 2020’
Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) enjoy flourishing bilateral relations and increasing trade volume especially in the non-oil sector over the years and the upcoming Dubai Exposition (Expo 2020) presents yet another opportunity to improve trade and investment between both countries. The 2020 Dubai Expo initially set to hold ...
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Firm Introduces Lease Option, Embarks On Customer’ Friendly Promo
Nigeria’s indigenous cable TV, Moreplex, said in its bid to further demystify the foreign pay TV industry and make its decoder available in every home, it has come up with lease option and embarked on customers’ friendly promo. The company said the brand is out to break the monopoly of ...
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Police Officers Training On Force Order 20, Rights Protection
The British Council state level programme, Rule of Law and Anti Corruption (ROLAC), has extended its training programme to Police Officers of the Lagos Police Command, on rights of suspects under investigation. The training which was in collaboration with the Rights Enforcement and Public Law Centre (REPLACE), the Nigeria Police ...
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Open Educational Resources, Vital To Advancement Of Education – EdTech
Collaboration among stakeholders has been identified as the best approach for the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER), which is necessary for advancing the educational system in Nigeria. This was the submission made at the just-concluded June edition of EdTech Mondays – an initiative put together by Mastercard Foundation in ...
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Time To Develop Policy-Driven Funding For Family Planning
By 2050, Nigeria which is currently the seventh most populous nation is projected to emerge in the third position at a fertility rate of 5.4 and an annual growth rate of 2.2 percent. Yet the country has a much lower annual Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth rate than many developed economies ...
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REDAN Partners Shelter Afrique On Affordable Housing
The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) has said that the Rural Urban Housing Initiatives RUHI-774 has received a boost as Shelter Afrique has consented to finance 12,000 housing units in the country. Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, the president, REDAN, Alh Aliyu Oroji Wamakko, said via ...