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— Chinua Achebe
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NEPC, Italian Agency Launch E-Lab For Agribusiness Training In Nigeria
BY OLUSHOLA BELLO | Italian Trade Agency (ITA), a governmental agency that supports the business development, partnerships and collaborations between Italian companies and their local counterparts, has launched the first E-Lab Innova in Nigeria. The E-Lab Innova is an educational training programme for the agri-food sector in Nigeria which will ...
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GNI Pays N501m Claims To Policyholders In Q1 2021
Great Nigeria Insurance Plc, paid N501.5 million as claims to its numerous policyholders who suffered insured risks in the first quarter of the current year (2021). This, the company said, affirmed its willingness and capacity to honour all genuine claims as and when due. In a statement signed by the ...
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Pantami Should Have Resigned From Office – Wike
By Anayo Onukwugha, Port Harcourt Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has said that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, ought to have resigned from office, irrespective of his recent renouncement of his previous support for extremist groups. The governor noted that in an ideal society, ...
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Aladdin Digital Bank Launches App To Provide Services To Nigerians
BY BUKOLA IDOWU, Lagos Aladdin Digital Bank has launched its digital App, Aladdin Finance, that will cater for the banking needs of a wide range of customers. According to the firm, the App will also cater for the needs of young professionals and ordinary Nigerians with legitimate endeavors they do for a ...
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Nigeria: French Trade Advisors Endorse Lagos Free Zone
[This Day] The Conseillers du Commerce Exterieur (French Foreign Trade Advisors) has expressed readiness to invest in the Lagos Free Zone (LFZ) being developed by the Tolaram Group.
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NAF Seeks N2m Fine For Illegal Possession Of Firearm
By Sunday Isuwa, Abuja The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has asked the Senate to increase fine for illegal possession of firearm from N1,000 to N2million as a deterrence. LEADERSHIP reports that the fine for illegal possession of firearm is currently N1,000 but the Senate in a proposed law, is ...
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Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Must Address Terrorism Funding, Climate Change – Gbajabiamila
By ADEBIYI ADEDAPO, Abuja The speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, said that Nigeria’s foreign policy in a fast-changing world must interrogate funding of terrorism and climate change. The speaker said that the nation’s foreign policy should seek to engage other nations in ...
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Why Nigeria Must Explore Golf Business Potentials -Markson
By Olawale Ayeni, Abuja Golf enthusiast, Daniel Iworiso Markson, has emphasized the need for Nigeria to explore the business potentials of golf for optimum development of the game in the country. Speaking to LEADERSHIP Sports, Markson said Nigerians are passionate about the game of golf but have not translated into ...
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Invite Pantami For Questioning Over Alleged Links To Al-Qaeda, Taliban, PDP Charges DSS
BY CHIBUZO UKAIBE, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately invite the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, for questioning over his alleged affiliations with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The party also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately ...
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Allow CBN Perform Its Mandate Efficiently, APC Tells Critics
BY MUYIWA OYINLOLA, Abuja There is no evidence that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is inefficient in managing the monetary aspect of the Nigerian economy, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. The national secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, made ...
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Sterling Bank Develops Contactless Payment Mobile App For Merchants
BY ABUODUN SIVOWAKU, Lagos Sterling Bank Plc has developed OnePay for Business, a mobile app that empowers merchants to use their mobile phones as Point-of-Sales systems. According to the company, the mobile App allows merchants and their customers to receive and make cardless, contactless and cashless payment for goods and ...
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Pioneer Firm In CFTZ Lauds FG, NEPZA’s New Business Approaches
By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah, Abuja Combination Industries, the first enterprise to enter the Calabar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ) in 1992, has lauded the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA)’s new business approaches set to address core challenges of enterprises at the zone. The managing director of Cheese Balls and Chesszy Taste ...
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FG, UN Sign Development Agreement To Boost SDGs
By INNOCENT ODOH, Abuja The federal government has signed a host country agreement with the United Nations Office On Projects Services (UNOPS) to help countries implement Programmes and projects of the United Nations especially the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the signing in Abuja, the minister of Foreign Affairs , ...
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FG Will Continue To Democratise Access To Internet – Osinbajo
BY FEMI OYEWESO, Abeokuta Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday that the federal government will not relent in its efforts at democratising access to broadband internet. According to him, it remains the best option in determining the country’s competitiveness in the global economy. Osinbajo, who stated this during the official ...
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IMF Tasks Nigeria On Revenue Mobilisation To Pay For Investments In Health
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja For the umpteenth time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said for Nigeria to achieve the desired growth, more fiscal space needs to be created through domestic revenue mobilization to pay for investments in health, education and infrastructure. Director, African department at IMF, Abebe Aemro Selassie, ...
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Fight Against Drug Trafficking Will Curb Insurgency – FG
BY TUNDE OGUNTOLA, Abuja Federal government has said the successful fight against drug trafficking would reduce funding for insurgency, saying It is common knowledge that drug money can be used to finance insurgency and terrorism. To halt this menace, the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture will collaborate with the ...
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FG Reconstitutes Governing Councils Of NABTEB, NSSEC
BY HENRY TYOHEMBA, Abuja Federal government has approved the reconstitution of the Governing Councils of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) and National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC). Director, press and public relations of the Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. He said ...
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Sugar Plant Dispute: Ganduje Reconciles Dangote, BUA
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has waded into the dispute between Dangote and BUA companies owned by two business moguls from the state. His action ended the lingering conflict among the two Kano prominent indigenes Aliko Dangote and Abdussamad Isyaka-Rabi’u over the establishment of a sugar plant by BUA. ...
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UNIABUJA Partners Embassy On Agric, Spanish Language Programmes
Authorities of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) and the Embassy of Argentina in Nigeria have reached a series of agreements on agriculture and foreign languages’ programmes for students of the school. The agreements were reached yesterday in Abuja when the Ambassador of Argentina to Nigeria, Mr Alejandro Herrero, visited the ...
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Africa: Nigeria Remains Africa's Biggest Economy, Top Investment Destination - APC
[Vanguard] The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Nigeria remained Africa's biggest economy and top investment destination.
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Africa: Twitter - APC Replies PDP, Says Nigeria Remains Africa's Biggest Economy, Top Investment Destination
[Premium Times] APC says Nigeria is on the right trajectory and the PDP cannot wish away the solid achievements of the Buhari administration.