Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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BY BUKOLA IDOWU and OLUSHOLA BELLO, Lagos As Nigerians bask in the euphoria of the country’s exit from recession, economic analysts have warned that the nation may relapse into recession except the government takes stringent measures. Data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last week broke the ...
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Digitisation Of Birth, Death Registration
The registration of births and deaths in Nigeria is one of the responsibilities of the National Population Commission (NPC). It has the statutory powers to collect, analyze and disseminate demographic data in the country among other functions. Birth registration is the process of recording a child’s birth. It is a ...
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FG, UN, Hail Nigeria’s HIV Response
BY PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA, Abuja The federal government, UNAIDS and other stakeholders have hailed the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for sustaining the country’s HIV response even in the phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, who gave the ...
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Workers Clash Imminent In CAC As NLC, TUC Affiliates Plan Showdown Â
By Michael Oche, Abuja Business activities at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) headquarters may be disrupted beginning from Wednesday as affiliate unions of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the Commission plan for a showdown. The two unions in the Commission are the Senior Staff Association ...
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Developers Vow To Tackle Housing Deficit To Reflate Economy For Emerging Markets
By KINGSLEY OKOH, Lagos Developers of the Eko Atlantic City Project have described the need to tackle housing deficit in Nigeria by bridging the Gap with infrastructure project to address the complexity of housing deficit problems adding that this would Reflate on the economy and lead the gateway for emerging ...
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Just In: NASS Leadership Meets Finance Ministers Over 2020 Budget Extension
BY BODE GBADEBO, Abuja The leadership of the National Assembly is currently meeting with the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, alongside her Minister of State, Jeddy Agba, over the 2020 budget extension. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, are present at the ...
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Aumento no preço de insumos para construção civil preocupa o setor
O interesse do brasileiro pela compra de imóveis continua alto, em parte pelo fato de a pandemia ter influenciado as pessoas a buscarem melhor qualidade de vida por meio da aquisição desse tipo de bem. No entanto, os Indicadores Imobiliários Nacionais do quarto trimestre de 2020 mostram que o aumento ...
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NDLEA Confiscates Over N17m Worth Of Illicit Drugs
The Rivers State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confiscated over N17 million worth of cannabis compressed into 23 bags weighing 621kg each in Port Harcourt metropolis. The NDLEA State Commander, Rachael Shelleng, disclosed this while parading the seizures at the Rivers command in Port Harcourt ...
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NDLEA Confiscates Over N17m Worth Of Illicit Drugs
The Rivers State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confiscated over N17 million worth of cannabis compressed into 23 bags weighing 621kg each in Port Harcourt metropolis. The NDLEA State Commander, Rachael Shelleng, disclosed this while parading the seizures at the Rivers command in Port Harcourt ...
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We Need Private Partnership To Develop Sports – Minister
By salifu usman, abuja The minister of youth and sports development, mr sunday dare, said the best model to develop nigerian sports is through private public partnerships that resonates with what obtains in advanced countries. He made the assertion at the weekend after he visited the ilaji sports facilities in ...
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Peak Milk Excited To Renew Super Eagles Deal
FrieslandCampina WAMCO said it was excited to renew its partnership with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) through its Peak Milk brand as the official milk of the Super Eagles. Taye Ige, president/CEO, HS Media Group, the sports marketing/activations agency for FrieslandCampina WAMCO, said Peak Milk is happy to sustain a ...
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WTO: Eches Celebrates Okonjo-Iweala’s Appointment
By ERNEST NZOR, Abuja A former gubernatorial candidate of Democratic People’s Congress (DPC) in Bayelsa State in the 2019 general election, Mrs Seiyefa Fetepigi Eches has congratulated Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her well deserved appointment as the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Mrs ...
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WTO And Int’l Politics That Defined Okonjo-Iweala’s Appointment
By Emmanuel Onwubiko Just before 4.pm Monday February 15, 2021 when it became known through a virtual conference that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has finally become the head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), this was how the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC announced the historic appointment. BBC said that Nigeria‘s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...
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Nigeria: Afreximbank, AAAM to Drive Automotive Investment
[This Day] The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the African Association of Automotive Manufacturers (AAAM) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the financing and promotion of the automotive industry in Africa.
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The Task Before Nigerian Envoys In A Changing World
By INNOCENT ODOH | On Tuesday, February 16, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised an induction course for the Nigerian Ambassadors-designate, Consuls and Charge d’ Affairs, to fine-tune them on the foreign policy objectives of Nigeria and the diplomatic niceties required to project them to the outside world. President ...
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Malami Bags Legal Icon Award, Partners LAWSAN
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN, has been named as the new Oracle of Modern Nigeria Legal System by the Law Students’ Association of Nigeria (LAWSAN). Malami, however, promised to collaborate with the law students association in discharging his duties effectively. In a ...
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Let’s Come On Same Page Against Criminals To Put Nigeria Right — Ikpeazu
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State is the chairman of South East Governors Forum. In this interview monitored by MARGARET COFFIE on Channels Television, he speaks on his government’s approach to open grazing, the state’s economy and the fate of teachers and pensioners under his administration. Excerpts: South East governors ...
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Benin Not Aspiring To Be Nigeria’s 37th State – FG
Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has debunked reports in the media that the Republic of Benin is aspiring to be the 37 State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A press statement signed by the Ministry’s spokesperson, Ferdinand Nwonye made available to LEADERSHIP on Saturday said the minister of Foreign ...
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‘‘We Need An Enforcement Structure With Political Will To Implement Finance Act 2020’’
By Chinelo Chikelu. | Multidisciplinary and finance expert, Professor Michael Ikupolati has said Nigeria needs an enforcement infrastructure with the political will to implement the Finance Act 2020, if the act is to achieve its intended purposes. Ikupolati made this known at a virtual session titled The Finance Act: What was, What ...
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Mars aproveita expansão da demanda por ração pet no Brasil
Vendas da gigante de chocolates dos EUA no segmento no mercado brasileiro ultrapassaram o crescimento global da unidade no ano passado O Brasil, terceiro maior mercado do mundo em produtos para animais de estimação, impulsiona os negócios da Mars depois que a gigante de chocolates dos EUA ...
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Expo 2021: Kenya Woos Nigerian Investors
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT The government of Kenya has called on Nigerian business investors to harness its economic development opportunities to deepen the Kenya-Nigeria relations. The high commissioner of Kenya to Nigeria, Dr Wilfred Machage, said this at the “5th Real Estate and Construction Expo-2021″ which started on Feb. 17, would ...