Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Nigeria To Rank Among First 100 Countries In Ease of Doing Business By 2023 – Adebayo
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo has assured that by 2023, Nigeria would be ranked among the first 100 countries of the world in the area of ease of doing business. Delivering a keynote address at the virtual Nigeria-Britain Trade and Investment Expo with the theme: “Unlocking ...
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Diaspora Community To Invest In Tomato, Ginger Farming In 7 States
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah, A diaspora group plans to invest in tomato and chilli/pepper, ginger, leather and garment agricultural value chain in Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Ogun, Oyo, Lagos and Abia states. This is contained in a GIZ and Nigeria Competitiveness Project (NICOP) report on potential diaspora investments in Nigerian agricultural value chains ...
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Nigeria: Akinboro - Increased Investments Can Make Nigeria World's Food Basket
[This Day] Chairman of Voriancorelli and Co-Founder of Cellulant, Mobolaji Akinboro in this interview with Ugo Aliogo, sheds light on his new initiative and venture-building journey, and how Voriancorelli is trying to transform the agriculture sector
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Attarbiyya School Commended For Promoting STEM Education
BY HENRY TYOHEMBA AND RITA MOKWE, Abuja Acting Secretary, Education Secretariat, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Leramoh Abdulrazaq has commended Attarbiyyah school, Abuja over the promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Abdulrazaq who spoke during the open house 2020/2021 academic session of the school to showcase projects prepared by the ...
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Army Appoints Maj.-Gen Yaro As 30th Commandant Of NDA
Maj.-Gen Sagir Yaro, has officially assumed duty as the 30th Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Wednesday in Kaduna State. The Academy Public Relations Officer, Major Bashir Jagira made this known in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna. Jagira said Yaro took over from Maj.-Gen Jamil Sarham, ...
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‘Bill Seeking Transfer Of Minimum Wage To Concurrent List Is Retrogressive’
By RICHARD NDOMA, Calabar Nigeria Labour Congress NLC (Cross River State branch) has described the bill seeking transfer of minimum wage from the exclusive to concurrent list as retrogressive saying the bill will never see the light of the day. Addressing workers during a one day protest where members of ...
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Optimising Women’s Potential Will Increase Nigeria’s GDP – DBN
Panelists at the second edition of Development Bank of Nigeria’s International Women’s Day Seminar have stated that failure to optimise the potential of women will affect the social and economic development of Nigeria. The virtual event was organised by DBN in commemoration of the 2021 IWD themed: #Choose to Challenge. ...
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Manufacturers Spent N143.29bn On Alternative Power Supply In 2 Years
By CHIKA IZUORA | Members of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) spent about N143.29 billion in alternative power supply between 2019 and 2020. According MAN, members in 2020 spent N81.91 billion on alternative power supply as against N61.38 spent in 2019. In its bi-annual review of the economy released ...
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Firstbank Promotes Diaspora Remittances, Rewards Customers
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has taken the lead in the implementation of the recent Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Naira4dollar policy by rewarding customers with N5 for every dollar received through foreign remittances. The N5 for a dollar incentive is paid to FirstBank’s customers regardless of their preference to ...
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Advancement In Cyber, Information Technology Fueling Bank Fraud – NDIC
BY OLUGBENGA SOYELE | The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has attributed the increase in bank related scams to the sophistication of fraud related techniques, such as hacking and increase in information technology related products and usage. The NDIC’s executive director, corporate services, Omolola Abiola-Edewor, who stated this at the ...
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Customs JBT Arrests 5 Foreign Women Specialised In Duping Nigerians
BY ABDULLAHI OLESIN | The Nigeria Customs Joint Border Patrol Team ( JBPT) in the North Central zone has arrested five foreign women that specialised in duping innocent Nigerians through charms. The JBPT team in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, arrested the suspects. The suspects are Fatima Mohammadu (38) from Niger ...
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UAE Launches Trade, Investment Promotion In Nigeria
BY INNOCENT ODOH | The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Nigeria has commenced a series of Trade and Investment promotion activities aimed at bolstering the bilateral trade and investment volume between Nigeria and the UAE. According a statement issued by the Embassy yesterday, the trade promotion initiative which ...
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Vitória na PEC Emergencial evitou ‘tragédia’, mas acendeu ‘luz amarela’, diz Sindifisco
Para o sindicato, apesar da vitória, a votação revelou que tem muito parlamentar que ainda não entendeu a importância da administração tributária para o país A derrubada pela Câmara do trecho da PEC Emergencial que desvinculava recursos para a Receita Federal foi vista como uma vitória pelo ...
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Nigerian Tech Companies Poised To Go Global
Much has been written in the national press about how Nigeria might recover from the economic crises of the past couple of years. Oil revenues have fallen to historic lows, remittances comprise an ever-smaller portion of GDP, and Nigeria’s main agricultural exports no longer form such an essential component of ...
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NDLEA: Francis Agbo And The War Against Narcotic Drug Addiction
By Andrew Agbese As far back as the early 80s, the boom in the illegal trade in hard drugs, occasioned by the increase in use of narcotics globally, had begun to manifest its ugly features in Nigeria. Youths caught in the frenzy of trending social movements coupled with the increase ...
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Cancer: Medical Experts Charge Women On Early Examination
BY PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA, Abuja As Nigeria joined the world to mark this year’s international women’s day, medical experts have charged women on early cancer examination and presentation. The experts gave the charge during an outreach organised by Nisa premier hospital in partnership with Soroptimist international, tagged “The effect of ...
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‘Kano-Katsina Rail Line Will be Integrated To DIDP To Boost Trade’
By Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, The Nigerian Shippers Council has said that the construction of the 284km and $1.96bn cross-border Kano – Katsina – Jibia – Maradi rail line will be integrated to the new Dala Inland Dry Port (DIDP) to boost trade and viability of the project. The Executive Secretary, Nigerian ...
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UAE Launches Trade, Investment Promotion In Nigeria
BY INNOCENT ODOH, Abuja The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Nigeria has commenced a series of Trade and Investment promotion activities aimed at bolstering the bilateral trade and investment volume between Nigeria and the UAE. According a statement issued by the Embassy yesterday, the trade promotion initiative which ...
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Taraba Govt Official Losses Son In Car Crash
By John Mkom, Jalingo. Senior special assistant, media and publicity, to Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state Bala Dan Habu on Sunday lost his first son, ASP Odiba Shedrack Abu, in a road accident in Port Harcourt. The 37 years old police officer met his death while returning from his ...
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Hennessy Becomes NBA’s First Global Partner
By ANTHONY AWUNOR, Lagos Hennessy, the world’s best-selling cognac, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have announced a global expansion of their partnership, making Hennessy the “Official Spirit of the NBA” worldwide. The multiyear agreement, which marks the league’s first-ever global partnership with a spirits brand, ushers in the next ...
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Nasarawa, NASENI Partner On STI, Agriculture
By Nkechi Isaac, Abuja The latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) placed agriculture behind the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector as the second largest contributor to the Nigerian economy in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020. The sector which grew at 3.68 per cent is ...