Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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BAT Nigeria Donates Smoking Kilns To Lagos Smallholder Fish Farmers
The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATN Foundation), in partnership with Lagos State Agricultural Development Authority, has donated eleven smoking kilns to Fish Farmer cooperative groups, including those with impaired hearing, comprising over 220 members. The partnership, initiated in 2018, aims at building the capacity of fish farmers under the ...
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Nigeria: Osinbajo Woos Vietnamese Investors, Says Nigeria Natural Investment Destination
[Leadership] Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, has spent the second day of his official visit to Vietnam asserting the view that for foreign investors and businesses looking at Africa, Nigeria is the straightforward choice in the continent.
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President Buhari Signs CRMI Bill Into Law
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed Into law the Chartered Risk Management Institute of Nigeria Bill, 2022 recently passed by the National Assembly. The Act has given legal backing to the now defunct Risk Management Association of Nigeria (RIMAN), vesting the power to teach and regulate the practice of risk management ...
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Seven Products Costing Nigeria Much Money To Import
Petrol: Petrol also known as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or Ordinary Motor Spirit maintained the top spot as the product costing Nigeria much money to import. Nigeria spent N1.19 trillion on the importation of petrol, accounting for 21.18% of the total product imported in Q3. Gas: Nigeria imported gas worth ...
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Osinbajo Woos Vietnamese Investors, Says Nigeria Natural Investment Destination
Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, has spent the second day of his official visit to Vietnam asserting the view that for foreign investors and businesses looking at Africa, Nigeria is the straightforward choice in the continent. According to him, despite global tensions and COVID-induced disruptions negatively impacting economies across the ...
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Simba TVS Wins At Nigeria Business Leaders’ Awards
Simba TVS and its business head, Mahendra Pratap, grabbed the spotlight at the Business Day Nigeria Business Leaders’ Awards (NBLA) which was held in Lagos at the weekend clinching two of the most prestigious awards in the high-octane event. Simba TVS emerged as the Best Automobile Company of the ...
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SON Assures Protection Of Local Industries
The director-general of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Farouk Salim has reaffirmed that the priority of the agency is to protect local industries and infant companies. According to Salim, “we hold the interest of our local industries at heart. We are in the business to make sure that ...
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BREAKING: CBN Slashes Daily Withdrawal Limit To N20,000
Ahead of the release of the newly redesigned Naira notes, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has made good its warning that it will greatly restrict the use of cash in the Nigerian economy going forward as it placed a N20,000 daily withdrawal limit on individual accounts and N50,000 limit ...
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Customs’ Anti-trade Policies Fueling Cargo Diversion – Operators
Importers and clearing agents operating at the nation’s seaports have raised the alarm over anti-trade policies introduced by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in its bid to meet its ambitious N3.1 trillion revenue target for 2022. LEADERSHIP gathered that the anti-trade policies include multiple trade alerts on already cleared cargoes, ...
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At Chatham House, Tinubu Reels Out Policy Direction
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday at Chatham House in London unveiled a wide range of issues that will form major policies of administration if elected president in the 2023 general election. The former Lagos State governor spoke extensively on security, economy and foreign ...
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Lawyers Announce New Body To Rival NBA, Founding Secretary Kicks
Some legal practitioners in Nigeria have established another professional association of lawyers known as the Law Society of Nigeria (LSN) thereby splitting the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). The association which is led by Kunle Ogunba (SAN), according to its promoters, was formed to break the monopoly of the Nigerian Bar ...
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Illegal Customs Checkpoints Frustrating Transborder Trade – Shippers
Trading amongst African countries has been very low due to many obstacles hindering transborder trade facilitation in the continent. Obstacles such as proliferation of multiple checkpoints, poor infrastructure, and technology, among others, are threatening transborder trade. However, in Nigeria, the proliferation of checkpoints by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) along ...
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Osinbajo Off To Vietnam For State Visit
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo departed Abuja yesterday for Vietnam for high-level bilateral engagements in the Southeast Asian nation including meetings with President Nguyn Xuân Phúc; Vice President Vo Thi Aah Xuan, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, other government officials and the business community. The reciprocal visit will further strengthen trade ...
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2023 Hajj: NAHCON, Saudi Arabia Authorities To Meet Dec 21
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) and the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Hajj and Umrah (MOHU) are scheduled to hold a Zoom meeting on December 21, 2022 in preparation for 2023 Hajj. This was contained in a letter officially received by NAHCON through Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which ...
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Osinbajo Off To Vietnam For 5-Day State Visit
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, departed Abuja on Saturday for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for high-level bilateral engagements in the Southeastern nation including meetings with the President of Vietnam, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc; Vice President Vo Thi Aah Xuan, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, other government officials and the ...
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41,000 Kids To Benefit From Federal Govt’s At-Risk-Children Programme In Borno
The Presidency has restated its commitment to proffering lasting solutions to the challenges posed by the rising number of out-of-school-children across Nigeria. Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, Mrs Maryam Uwais, said this in Maiduguri during the closing ceremony of a three-week capacity-building programme for Youth facilitators under ...
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Tribunal de Coimbra julga ex-agente da PSP acusado de falsificar escalas de colegas
O ex-agente da PSP José Nogueira, condenado a 11 anos de prisão por assaltos a residências, regressa na segunda-feira ao Tribunal de Coimbra, num processo em que é acusado de falsificar escalas de colegas para receber pagamentos.
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Nigeria: $1.4bn Investment in Northern Hydrocarbons to Yield $6bn Revenue in 20 Years - NNPC
[This Day] The $1.4 billion external project finance agreement jointly arranged by the Standard Chartered Bank, UK, and United Bank for Africa for Northern Hydrocarbon Funding Limited, would yield revenue of $6 billion in 20 years, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has said.
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Rivers, Bayelsa Women Participate In Business, Leadership Conference
Kilali Tribe, a group of Niger Delta professional women, has organised a one-day business and leadership conference for women in Rivers and Bayelsa states. The conference, which held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, was organised in partnership with Eve Afrique Empowerment Initiative, with the theme: “The Woman and ...
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Paraguay: Meat exports will exceed the US$2 billion barrier in 2022
The export of Paraguayan meat will exceed the barrier of US$2 billion at the end of this year, which would make it possible to meet the main objective that was set for this 2022, according to the National Service for Quality and Animal Health (Senacsa). The president of Senacsa, José ...
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AIB-N Transmutes To NSIB, To Probe Air, Road, Rail, Marine Accidents
The Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N) has transmuted into the National Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) empowered to investigate road, rail and marine accidents. This followed the signing into law of the new NSIB Act 2022 by President Muhammed Buhari this week after the Supreme Court gazetted it on November 28, ...