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Facemask Vendors Bemoan Low Patronage In Kaduna
Facemask vendors in Kaduna metropolis have expressed worry over decline in sales of the item, saying the dwindling patronage is gradually forcing them out of the market. Checks conducted yesterday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna showed a number of vendors, who sell on traffic, had taken ...
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PMB Has Built Economy Immune To Global Shocks – Awolowo
By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah As Nigeria exited recession on Thursday, the executive director of Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Segun Awolowo, has said President Muhammadu Buhari built an economy that could withstand global shocks. Awolowo who spoke to State House correspondents yesterday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa ...
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ICT Records Highest Growth Rate In 2020 – NBS
By Nkechi Isaac, Abuja A report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has placed Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as the fastest growing sector of the Nigerian economy. The Quarter four (Q4), 2020, Report on Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) released on February 18, 2021, by the bureau ...
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NDLEA Boss, Marwa, A Round Peg In A Round Hole – Group
By Margaret Coffie, Abuja A non-governmental organisation, CITAR NGO, has described the Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd) as a round peg in a round hole because of his proactive feat so far in tackling drug trafficking in the country within ...
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A Peep Into Health Care Delivery In Nasarawa
In this piece, DANJUMA JOSEPH, examines the state of primary, secondary and tertiary health institutions in the Home of Solid Minerals The assertion that health is wealth, without doubt, is a time-tested fact which underscores the dominant role health plays in the economy of any nation. In Nigeria, due to ...
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Nigeria: NACC - Biden's Friendly Administration Will Boost American Investment in Nigeria
[This Day] The Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) has stated that Nigeria would leverage on the friendly disposition of President Joe Biden's administration to boost Americans' investments in the country and enhance its participation of Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA).
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Experts Divided Over Nigeria’s Recovery From Recession
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja, BUKOLA IDOWU and OLUSHOLA BELLO, Lagos The announcememt by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that the nation’s economy recovered from recession in the last quarter of 2020 has got economic experts divided over the possibility or otherwise of the recovery. While some agreed the early ...
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NEXIM Bank Declares N4.5bn Profit In 3 Years
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) has declared a cumulative profit of N4.5 billion after operational cost for a period of between 2018 and 2020, despite general economic downturn in the period under review. The bank’s balance sheet also grew from N67.73 million in April to N158.84 billion ...
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Caleb University Gets NUC’s Approval To Run Law Programme
BY DUSTAN AGHEDO, Lagos The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given approval to the full–time mode of the LL-B Law programme for Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State. The development is contained in a letter from the Council signed for the NUC Executive Secretary by Dr. N.B Saliu, Director of Academic ...
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NAWOJ Tasks WTO’s DG On Challenges Facing World Economics
BY ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) has expressed optimism that the appointment of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the first female Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will proffer achievable solutions to the challenges confronting economies of countries of the world. The association’s national ...
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Nigeria Recovers From Recession As GDP Grows By 0.11% In Q4 2020
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s GDP grew by 0.11 per cent in Quarter Four (Q4) 2020, from the 6.11 per cent contraction in Q3, signaling a gradual recovery from recession. The NBS said this in the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Report (Q4 and Full Year 2020) ...
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EIRS Begins Enforcement of Gaming Law, Serves Notices to Premier Lotto, Others
By PATRICK OCHOGA, Benin City The Edo Internal Revenue Service (EIRS) has commenced the enforcement of the Edo State Gaming Law of 2020 with the engagement of key actors in the sector to ensure full compliance with the law in the state. The Executive Chairman of EIRS, Igbinidu Inneh, in ...
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WTO: Okonjo-Iweala’s Appointment Has Opened A New Page Of Inclusion – SESSPN
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah, The SouthEast SouthSouth Professionals of Nigeria, (SESSPN) has commended Nigerians, Africans and the global community for the historic honour in endorsing their most celebrated development phenomena, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as the substantive Director General of World Trade Organization WTO. In a press statement by the ...
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Peace Building: Corps Partnership Kaduna Commission For Capacity Building In Atyap Community
BY ISAIAH BENJAMIN Kaduna The Community Initiatives to Promote Peace (CIPP) program of Mercy Corps Nigeria in partnership with Kaduna Peace Commission with from the United States Aides International Development (USAID) Thursday commenced a capacity building training for ATYAP Chiefdom Community Peace and Security Partnership (ACPSP) from Zangon Kataf local ...
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Por 10 a 1, STF decide manter "direito de passagem" gratuito às teles
Prerrogativa de empresas para instalar equipamentos de infraestrutura em locais públicos sem pagar contrapartida é questionada pela PGR, que vê danos às receitas de Estados e municípios O Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) decidiu por 10 votos a 1 manter a lei que permite às empresas de telecomunicações ...
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Facebook blocca le notizie in Australia in polemica con un progetto di legge, 42 persone rapite nell’ovest della Nigeria, scontri a Madrid e Barcellona dopo l’arresto del rapper Pablo Hasél. Leggi
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AfCFTA: Stakeholder Lists Benefits of PMS Deregulation
By ANTHONY AWUNOR, Lagos The Secretary, National Action Committee for the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), Mr Francis Anatogu has said that Nigeria can enhance the opportunities of the agreement with full deregulation of the downstream sector. Anatogu made the assertion while speaking with the newsmen on ...
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Minister Tasks NAHCON On Sensitising Muslims On Hajj Saving Scheme
BY MARK ITSIBOR | Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed has asked the management of National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to step up its sensitisation of Muslims on the need to take advantage of Hajj Saving Scheme. The minister made the call when chairman of the ...
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Falcons Lock Horns With CSKA Moscow’s Ladies In Turkish Cup Opener
Nigeria’s senior women team, Super Falcons, will today launch their preparation for the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nation (AWCON) when they trade-tackle CSKA Moscow’s ladies in their Turkish Women’s Cup opener at the Emir Sports Complex in Antalya. speaking ahead of the match, the team handler, Randy Waldrum, expressed ...
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Rotary Club Pleads With Nigerians To Donate Blood
Rotary Club of Abuja Federal has called on Nigerians to voluntarily donate blood regularly to save lives and improve the health sector. Dr Patrick Ezie, the president of the club, said this at the club’s annual blood donation drive organised in Abuja in partnership with the National Blood Transfusion Service ...
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FG Partners NCF On Preservation Of Wetlands
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja Federal Ministry of the Environment and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) have announced a partnership on how to ensure the preservation of wetlands in Nigeria. The partnership was held to commemorate this year’s World Wetlands Day. The theme for this year’s event was “wetlands and water” ...