Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Kano Adopts PPP For Waste Management
Kano State government has entered into a public private partnership (PPP) agreement with Capegate Investment Company Limited on waste management in the state. This was disclosed by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday, during the flag-off of Keep Kano Clean Week, at Jakara Mega Drainage, which goes through Kurmi market to ...
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Nigeria, Others Brainstorm On Criminal Atrocities Prevention
Nigeria alongside other African countries, has attended a regional conference to brainstorm on “The Domestication of Atrocity Prevention Norms at the State Level’ in Banjul, Gambia. The conference, which was organised by the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in partnership with the Government of Denmark, aimed at ...
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COVID-19 Boost To Digital Economy – NITDA
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has revealed that COVID-19 pandemic has boosted digital economy in Nigeria. This, it added, also helped to accelerate the digital transformation journey faster, more dramatic and disruptive, giving opportunities for more convenient online presence with less disturbance. The director general, NITDA, Mallam Kashifu ...
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Dangote Sugar Commits To Nigeria Backward Integration Project Goal
Achieving Nigeria Backward Integration Project in the sugar industry has remained a key priority to Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) Plc. Recently, the company urged government to faithfully follow through the Backward Integration policy in the sugar industry as the nation stands to rake in foreign exchange up to $700 million ...
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Capture Agric Graduates In Anchor Borrowers Scheme, CBN Urged
The National Committee of Heads of Colleges of Agriculture and Related Disciplines (NACHCARD) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to capture graduates of agric in its various intervention programs. This this as the association said it will accelerate achievement of food security and diversification of economy. This was ...
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WTO Considers Nigeria, 3 Others As Vaccine Production Hubs
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said Africa is working with the European Union and other partners to create regional vaccine manufacturing hubs with Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal and Rwanda. The director-general WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who stated this yesterday during a virtual meeting, said “we have now seen that over-centralisation ...
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Nigeria May Earn N462bn Annually From Electronic Transfer – World Bank
The World Bank has said that Nigeria is likely to make N462 billion from electronic money transfer (EMT) levy and as a source of stable revenue this year. According to the bank’s report, entitled ‘Resilience through Reforms”, the EMT levy was introduced in the Finance Act 2020, which amended the ...
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OPINION: Need To Halt Exit Of Foreign Investors From Nigeria
Despite Nigeria’s vast business opportunities for foreign investors, many foreign investors have exited Nigeria due to their inability to deliver favorable returns to shareholders. Nigeria is endowed with significant natural and human resources, but the failure of the country’s leadership to get it right over the years has continued to ...
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Nigeria: Audit Report Indicts NIPC Management of N4.9bn Fraud
[Leadership] A report by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation has revealed how the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) management, led by Executive Secretary Yewande Sadiku, and the agency's staff wastefully or unlawfully spent the sum of N4.97billion within four years.
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Audit Report Indicts NIPC Management Of N4.9bn Fraud
A report by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation has revealed how the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) management, led by Executive Secretary Yewande Sadiku, and the agency’s staff wastefully or unlawfully spent the sum of N4.97billion within four years. A copy of the 41-page report by ...
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Cresce número de empresas com ações para ajudar os funcionários a organizarem as finanças
Na maioria dos casos, iniciativas estão alocadas sob o guarda-chuva de saúde mental e bem-estar No último ano, cresceu o número de empresas com programas, ações e iniciativas para ajudar os funcionários a organizarem as finanças ou saírem de dívidas, na maioria dos casos alocados sob o guarda-chuva de ...
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Nigerian Women Must Take Advantage Of AfCFTA – WISTA President
The Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Nigeria, has urged women in the maritime industry to explore investment opportunities in the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) which came into full effect in January, 2021. The President of WISTA Nigeria, Mrs Eunice Ezeoke, stated this at a press briefing ...
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Lekki Free Zone Quadrant, Eko Atlantic Are National Assets – Senate
The Senate Committee on Trade, Industry and Investment has described Dangote, Lekki, Alaro City, and the Lagos free zone which constituted the Lekki mega free zone quadrant and the Eko Atlantic free zone as multi-billion-dollar national assets. Chairman of the committee, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, said this while the committee members ...
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JUST-IN: PDP Wins Kaduna Assembly Bye-election
Alhaji Usman Baba (Ubale) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the bye-election for the Sabon Gari State Constituency seat in Kaduna State House of Assembly. Declaring the results, the returning officer (RO), Dr Mohammed-Nuruddin Musa, announced that Usman Baba was duly elected having satisfied the ...
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Airtel Nigeria Partners AXA Mansard on Mobile Health Insurance Via USSD
Airtel Nigeria and leading service provider in the healthcare sector, AXA Mansard, have announced a strategic partnership to deepen access, participation and enrolment in health insurance for more Nigerians. The partnership by Airtel and AXA Mansard is in response to the Federal Government’s goal, through the National Health Insurance Scheme, ...
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Air Peace Daily Flight To Ilorin To Create Jobs – Onyema
Air Peace, yesterday, has said, the launching of Lagos and Ilorin to Abuja daily flight will boost the economy of the state and generate employment for the unemployed people in the state. This was disclosed by the chairman/CEO of the Airline, Mr. Allen Onyema, at the commencement of the daily ...
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PENGASSAN Threatens Sanction Of Oil Firms Over Labour Law
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has vowed to sanction any oil and gas firm that failed to comply with its directive as well as provisions in Article 15a of the Department of Petroleum Resources(DPR) regulations and 20 of Nigerian Labour law. This is just ...
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To Boost Our Economy, We Need To Start Producing – Ag Rector
The acting rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Mustapha Zubair, says Nigeria will not get out of its economic mess until the country goes into massive production of goods and services. Zubair said this yesterday while fielding questions from newsmen in Benin City, Edo State. While calling for more investment in science ...
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Drug Abuse Responsible For Insecurity – Marwa
The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has attributed the increase in insecurity in Nigeria to drug abuse, describing it as a national tragedy. Gen. Marwa who spoke at a meeting with critical stakeholders in Lokoja yesterday, said bandits, kidnappers ...
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Financial Integrity: Who Else Is Standing After Buhari?
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on January 30, 2019, at the annual business lecture of the Lagos Island Club delivered by a former Vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who was at that intersection the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), called out the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, on the ...
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How I Made It: I Was Goal-oriented – Lere Baale
Lere Baale is a Professor of Organisation Transformation and Chief Executive of Business School Netherlands International, Nigeria, Director of World Institute of Action Learning Coaches in Nigeria and also Regional Partner of HOWES – CMOE Inc. USA in Africa & Middle East Area. He is on the board of ...