Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Lilvera Group Bags ‘Most Customer Focused Experiential Marketing’ Award
By KINGSLEY OKOH, Lagos Experts in Consultancy and Integrated Marketing Communication, Lilvera Group, has won the 2020 Africa Finance Award for the ‘Most Customer Focused Experiential Marketing category. The IMC Award was presented to Lilvera Nigeria at the 9th edition of the Award at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos as the most ...
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Stakeholders Applauds FG’s Bid To Audit Existing Free Trade Zone
By CHIKA IZUOR, LAGOS Stakeholders in Nigeria’s maritime sector have commended the decision of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo to suspend the licensing of new Free Trade Zones (FTZs) and audit the existing ones. They described the federal government’s decision to review the performance of ...
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Okonjo-Iweala, Ahmed, Johnson-Sirleaf Chart Course For Better Future
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and nominee for the post of director-general, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have championed the advocacy for a better future for all women, individuals/groups and ...
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Lagos Vows To Clamp Down On Traffic Laws Violators
The Lagos State government has vowed to continue to enforce its traffic laws to maintain sanity and curb carnages on its roads. Speaking as the Lead Speaker at the Fifth Lagos Traffic Radio Lecture Series Webinar held on Thursday, 17th December, with the Theme: ‘Traffic Law Enforcement; The New Normal’, ...
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Drugs: Nigeria Aiming At 70% Local Manufacturing – NAFDAC
BY PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA, Abuja The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has expressed it’s commitment to reversing Nigeria’s 70 per cent dependency on foreign countries for drugs to 70 per cent local manufacturing. Director-general of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made the disclosure at the Agency’s ...
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WARIF, EU-UN Train Students On Prevention Of Sexual Violence
The Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF) in collaboration with the European Union and United Nations (EU-UN) have trained students in the tertiary institutions on the prevention of sexual violence in Nigeria. The programme, which was the first virtual online training was in partnership with the joint EU-UN spotlight initiative, ...
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Sustaining Nigeria’s Oil And Gas Business Through PIB
Nigeria’s oil and gas sector seems to be looking bright with more oil fields being considered for offering in 2021, even as fiscal policy direction will further spur the needed activities spearheaded by oil majors, CHIKA IZUORA writes. Nigeria’s oil and gas industry appear to be expanding, albeit not so ...
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Panic As CBN Liquidates 42 Microfinance Banks
BY ZAKA KHALIQ | The Central Bank of Nigeria has revoked the licenses of 42 microfinance banks in the country and has subsequently closed them. The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) while disclosing this in a statement yesterday said it will promptly commence the verification of claims of depositors of ...
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SAM NDA-ISAIAH 1962-2020: He Never Stopped Believing In Nigeria’s Indivisibility – Fani-Kayode
By Gabriel Emameh | Former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, yesterday described the late chairman of LEADERSHIP Group Limited, publishers of LEADERSHIP Newspapers and National Economy, Sam Nda-Isaiah, as a man who never stopped believing in the indivisibility of Nigeria. Nda-Isaiah passed on on Friday, December 11, 2020 in Abuja ...
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SMEDAN To Establish  Bank For MSMEs Funding
By Kingsley Alu, Abuja The Small and Medium  Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has disclosed that it would soon establish a micro finance bank that would enable operators of micro,small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to access funds to run their businesses without  hiccups. Director General/Chief Executive Officer of SMEDAN, ...
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Awoniyi Eyes Super Eagles Call Up
Liverpool loanee, Taiwo Awoniyi has revealed his desire to represent the Nigeria national team and hopes his chance will come soon. The forward has previously starred for the West Africans’ youth teams and was part of the side that won the 2013 U17 World Cup. Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho ...
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Customs Intercepts 73 Riffles, 846 Cartridges
BY ISAIAH BENJAMIN, Kaduna The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) Federal Operation Unit (FOU), Zone ‘B’ says it has intercepted 73 Riffles, 846 Cartridges in the first two weeks of December. Other seizures it said it made in the same period were 215 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 26 ...
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Super Falcons Move Up One Spot In FIFA Ranking
African champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria moved up one spot in the latest women’s ranking released by FIFA, yesterday. The Nigerian women football team rose one spot to 37th, while also maintaining top position in Africa. The Indomitable Lioness of Cameroon remains in 51st position in the world and second ...
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Yuletide: Titan Trust Bank Rewards Customers
Titan Trust Bank Limited, Nigeria’s fastest growing financial service provider, is set to cheer its teeming customers with over N100, 000 each. The campaign tagged: ‘Titan 360 Giveaway’ will run from December 20th to 24th, 2020. A statement by the lender said that the giveaway was in celebration of its ...
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AfCFTA: Nigeria To Protect Home Industry, Implement Sugar Master Plan For 10 Years
By Kingsley Alu, Abuja The Nigeria Sugar Development Council (NSDC) has said that the take off  of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in January  would not affect the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) as the country has already secured under the trade agreement , an allowance of 10 ...
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Dasa anuncia compra do Hemat, terceira aquisição em 15 dias
Desde o início de dezembro, a empresa anunciou a compra do Hospital Leforte, numa transação de R$ 1,7 bilhão, e do Grupo Exame, no Rio Grande do Sul (Texto foi alterado para corrigir informação sobre a procedência do Hemat, que fica em São José do Rio Preto ...
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FAMILY BEING: Curtailing Neonatal, Infant Deaths Through Family Planning
By The Society for Media Advocacy on Health, Nigeria All over the world, there have been overwhelming concerns over uninterrupted deaths of babies at birth and many of those who struggle to survive do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday. This is evident in the World’s efforts to ...
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Time To Centralise Anti-graft War
By Our Editors There is no gainsaying it that corruption is so pervasive in Nigeria. The nation’s public service has been turned into a kind of commercial enterprise steeped in corruption. On daily basis, we are greeted with news of one public servant embezzling funds meant for projects or some ...
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FG Cancels N20 NIN Retrieval Charge
BY NKECHI ISAAC, Abuja The minister of communications and digital economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for NIN retrieval requests. The minister’s directive which takes immediate effect ...
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Sustaining Nigeria’s Oil And Gas Business Through PIB
Nigeria’s oil and gas sector seems to be looking bright with more oil fields being considered for offering in 2021, even as fiscal policy direction will further spur the needed activities spearheaded by oil majors. CHIKA IZUORA writes. Nigeria’s oil and gas industry appear to be expanding, albeit not so ...
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WARIF, EU-UN Initiative Train Students On Prevention Of Sexual Violence
By Anthony Ada Abraham, The Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF) has announced the completion of the first ever virtual online classroom training programme on the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Nigeria. The programme is in partnership with the joint EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, a global multi-year partnership between the European Union ...