Nigeria
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Targeting Sustainable Economic Growth, FG Develops Investment Policy
… Saves N45bn From TSA monthly BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja As part of practical steps to build an investment based economy and entrench sustainable economic growth plan for the country, the federal government is now ready to unveil the first national investment policy, a document that pulls together all the ...
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AEPB Mobile Court Confiscates Cows From Cattle Rearers
By IGHO OYOYO The Mobile Court of Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB has confiscated six cows from three cattle rearers operating at undesignated areas in the Federal Capital Territory. The three cattle rearers namely, Ibrahim Abubakar, Adamu Idris and Salisu Saidu were arrested this week at Central Business District, Game ...
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Bangladesh and Nigeria Witness Growing Partnership
By Md Shameem Ahsan Bangladesh and Nigeria enjoy cordial bilateral relations and the partnership is marked by commonalities in many respects. Apart from being members of the UN, Commonwealth, NAM, OIC and D-8, both countries hold similar views at the UN and other international fora. Nigeria with its 200 million ...
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Rising Inflation: NECA Calls For Review Of Monetary Policies
Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has expressed concern over the consistent rise in headline inflation, while urging the monetary authorities to review their monetary policies with a focus on attracting foreign investments into the local economy. NECA said the rise from 13.71 per cent in September, 2020 to 14.23 per ...
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Jobberman Nigeria Partners “Coursera” To Launch Soft Skill Training
By KINGSLEY OKOH, Lagos Jobbermann Nigeria, the single largest job placement platform has formed partnership with Coursera, the World’s leading online learning platforms to launch free soft skill training to upskill young Nigerians with adequate training required for career success. With over a decade in the recruitment business, Jobberman has ...
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Counting Gains Of Sustainable Fuelwood Management
By Nkechi Isaac, Abuja The advent of the novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease brought the world to a standstill with various countries adopting drastic measures to stop the spread of the virus. This inadvertently affected the world economy driving less developed countries especially in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) into ...
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PIB deve encolher 4,5% neste ano, afirma Ministério da Economia
Estimativa anterior, divulgada em setembro, projetava queda de 4,7% do PIB de 2020 O Ministério da Economia revisou para queda de 4,5% a estimativa para o desempenho do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) deste ano. Na grade de parâmetros anterior, divulgada em setembro, a projeção era de queda ...
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Why Nigeria Needs To Start HPV Vaccinations In 2021
As we look towards the launch of the Global Strategy on the Elimination of Cervical Cancer scheduled for the 17th November 2020, Nigeria as a co-sponsor of this critical initiative must be at the forefront of implementing prescribed approaches to control and eventually eliminate cervical cancer in Nigeria. That strategy ...
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Nigeria Benefits From Chinese $15bn Investment In Oil, Gas Sector
Nigeria’s energy sector is about to receive a major boost from huge investment decisions from China, which is eyeing key exploration operations in the oil and gas sector in Africa. According to a Modern Diplomacy report, China has a whopping $15 billion worth of investments planned in Africa’s oil sector. ...
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Tatto nega mágoa com Lula e diz que vai entrar de cabeça na campanha de Boulos
Ele será o responsável pela organização da mobilização de vereadores, deputados e apoiadores do PT em favor do ex-concorrente Questionado se está bem, Jilmar Tatto (PT) responde que agora está, sim, depois de uma boa noite de sono, e que se vê pronto para outra. E essa ...
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Travesty
Editorial MARTHA Solomon, 17, is a minor in the eye of the law. Yet, her detention, in a police cell in Abuja since August, is another ugly window into how fellow citizens suborn the police to shackle the law, and resort to brazen self-help. Incidentally, the all-notorious but disbanded ...
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Access Bank, GE Healthcare Partner To Improve Access To Infrastructure
By SOLOMON NDA-ISAIAH As part of continued efforts to revamp Nigeria’s health sector, Access Bank has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare Systems to provide cost-efficient and flexible financing for healthcare providers. The finance scheme is specifically designed to address major challenges experienced by healthcare providers in accessing finance, including ...
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Civil Society Groups Task CBN On Advocacy To Promote It’s Intervention Programmes
Coalition of Civil Society Groups has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to engage Nigerians through adequate advocacy, saying the Apex bank has done alot to improve the country’s economy yet, much is not heard about it. While urging Nigerians to support viable and proactive intervention policies of ...
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NADDC Trains 300 Technicians In Kano
By ABDULLLAHI YAKUBU, Kano | 300 heavy-duty technicians from three geopolitical zones of the country have concluded an upgrade training in Kano as a way of reducing road traffic crashes involving tankers, trailers and other heavy-duty vehicles. This was revealed in a keynote address by the director-general of the National ...
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FAAC Disburses N6.574trn In 10 Months
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja | Despite the economic downturn that has characterised the 2020 fiscal year, LEADERSHIP findings have shown that the federation account only felt a little of the coronavirus induced bearish movement in the global economy as revenue disbursement from the federation account indicate above average performance. A ...
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Reps Summon Kyari, Emefiele Over Non-remittance Of N3.235trn In 2014
By IGHO OYOYO | The House Committee on Public Accounts has summoned the group managing director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, and governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, over non-remittance of N3.235 trillion ($19.253 billion) revenue accrued from sales of domestic crude ...
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COVID-19: Pantami Restates FG’s Commitment To Digital Economy
By Ernest Nzor, Abuja | The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has restated the Federal Government’s commitment to boost digital economy in the post COVID-19 pandemic era. Pantami, who was represented by the director-general/CEO of NIMC, Engr Aliyu Abdulaziz, made this known while delivering ...
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The Challenge Of Housing Deficit
Nigeria, with an estimated population of nearly 200 million, has about 108 million of this population without homes. This is not only alarming, but also frightening. The country’s present housing deficit is estimated at a staggering 20million units, requiring about N59.5 trillion to finance. The World Bank recommends that Nigeria ...
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21 Insurance Companies Surpass 50% New Capital Threshold
BY ZAKA KHALIQ, Lagos | Six weeks to the December 31 deadline given to insurance and reinsurance companies to attain 50 per cent new capital threshold, only 21 insurance firms out of 58 have so far met the mandate, LEADERSHIP can exclusively reveal. Of the said number, it was learnt ...
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Okonjo-Iweala, Access Bank, Yesufu, Others Nominated For CAHR Awards
BY CHIMA AKWAJA, Lagos Former finance minister and World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) director-general hopeful, Ngozi-Okonjo Iweala, Access Bank, co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu and others have made the final list for the second Community and Human Rights (CAHR) Awards. The award, which will hold during ...
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Rivers: 10 Women Benefit From Rotary Club’s Interest-Free Loans
By Anayo Onukwugha, Port Harcourt No fewer than 10 women, who are small business owners have benefitted from the micro-credit scheme of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt GRA. The benefitting women from the annual event, which started in 2018/2019 Rotary Year, were drawn from the Rotary Community Corps of ...