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Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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LCCI Unveils Plan For Lagos 2020 Trade Fair
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has announced that the 2020 edition of its International Trade Fair will hold both physical and virtual formats due to the COVID-19 pandemic environment. The 2020 Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF) will hold from November 6 to November 15, 2020. The vice ...
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CBN, Shippers’ Council Read Riot Act To Shipping Firms
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the bank has discovered that several shipping companies in Nigeria were not complying with the federal government’s directive on compulsory use of Nigerian export proceeds numbers. Speaking at a virtual meeting recently, the CBN Governor said many of the exporting companies ...
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Nigeria: Challenges of Foreign Private Equity Investment in Nigeria
[This Day] Nigeria has witnessed a steady decline in Foreign Direct Investment in recent time. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, Foreign Direct Investment was USD1.19 Billion in 2018 while only USD934.34 million was received in 2019. Several reasons account for this trend, including drop in global ...
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AGU recorre de decisão do STF que enquadrou homofobia como racismo
A AGU também pede que não seja considerado crime de homofobia ou transfobia a exclusão de membros de organizações religiosas por aplicação de seus respectivos códigos de conduta A Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU) recorreu da decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) que enquadrou a homofobia e a ...
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#ENDSARS: LAWSAN Decries Detention Of Law Students, Others
By Tunde Oguntola, Abuja | The Law Students’ Association of Nigeria (LAWSAN) has decried the detention, molestation of a student of the Nigerian Law School, Abuja Campus who was arrested at Ojuelegba Lagos, along with many other Nigerians across the nation during the END SARS protest. Addressing a press ...
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Over 6,000 Nigerians Apply For Amber Drinks Empowerment Program In Its First Month
By SAMUEL ABULUDE, Lagos Over 6,000 Nigerians have applied for the Amber Drinks Empowerment Program which was launched to ensure that Nigerians are financially independent to cope with life while enhancing their living standard. According to the Head of Sales Amber Drinks Ltd, Temitope Adetiba, “thousands of applications were received ...
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Okonjo-Iweala: The Cap Fits
BY OUR EDITORS The race for the successor to the outgoing Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Roberto Azevêdo, is reaching its climax as October ending looms in the horizon. The selection process has pruned the candidates from eight to two with Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looking set ...
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NNPC Boss Seeks Partnership With Media On Professional Reporting
The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari, has said that the corporation would partner with media to ensure professional reporting of the Nigeria oil and gas industry. Kyari stated this while speaking at the Valuechain 3rd annual lecture and awards with the theme: ...
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FG, IFAD Launch Nigeria Agriculture Gender Network
By Joe Chibueze, The Federal Government and International Fund for Agricultural Development Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) is facilitating the process of establishing a gender network, tagged Nigeria Agriculture Gender Network (NAGN) in partnership with other donor Programmes. The Knowledge Management and Communications Advisor, IFAD, Mrs Vera Onyeaka Onyilo, in ...
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NNPC Boss Seeks Partnership With Media On Professional Reporting
BY ERNEST NZOR AND ABUBAKAR YUNUSA, Abuja The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari, has said that the corporation would partner with media to ensure professional reporting about Nigeria oil and gas industry. Kyari stated this during 3rd annual lecture and awards ...
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Promoting Nigeria’s Bio-economy Via Kenaf Value Chain Development
By Nkechi Isaac, Abuja Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) is a multi-purpose bio-economic crop. It is a fast-growing, annual crop that belongs to the Malvaceae family. It belongs to the genus Hibiscus that comprises about 400 annual and perennial species. Considering the current global environmental challenges, the need to return green or bio-economy has become ...
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Partnership: KEDCO Signs MoU With Skyline University
The Management of Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Skyline University to enhance Training and Education between both parties. According to the Management, this partnership will explore areas of education that’s knowledge sharing and resources while community engagement, internship as well as ...
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Reflections On Sixty Years Of US/Nigeria Engagement
Sixty years ago, this week, Ambassador Joseph Palmer II presented his credentials as the first United States Ambassador to the Government of Nigeria. The occasion presents the opportunity to reflect on the breadth and depth of the partnership between our two great nations, each evolving democratically, over the intervening decades. ...
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Union Bank Secures $40m IFC Facility To Boost Trade Finance
Union Bank Plc said it has received a $40 million finance guarantee facility from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to boost access to finance for local businesses. In a statement, the bank said the facility was approved under the IFC’s global trade finance programme (GTFP) and would help to enable ...
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COVID-19: FG To Mitigate Effects On Rural Economy
The federal government has said that it is set to launch a new programme that would mitigate the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on citizens and the rural economy. Minister of state for Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba who revealed this at the Retreat of the Federal Steering Committee of ...
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FG, IFAD Launch Nigeria Agriculture Gender Network
The Federal Government and International Fund for Agricultural Development Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) is facilitating the process of establishing a gender network, tagged Nigeria Agriculture Gender Network (NAGN) in partnership with other donor Programmes. The Knowledge Management and Communications Advisor, IFAD, Mrs Vera Onyeaka Onyilo, in a statement made ...
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Group Launches Campaign Against Irregular Migration, Seeks Media Partnership
By Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja A non governmental organisation, Africa Youth Growth Foundation (AYGF) has decried the incessant death of Nigerians on the Mediterranean Sea and desert as a result of irregular migration to Europe. During a press briefing yesterday in Abuja on the launch of the Migration Information Communication Campaign ...
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NDLEA Arrests 228 Alleged Drug Offenders
Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Lagos State Command have arrested two hundred and twenty-eight suspected drug dealers and seized over five tonnes of illicit drugs from various locations across the state in the third quarter of the year. The agency, in a statement signed by the command’s ...
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Nigeria: Braving the Challenges of Foreign Private Equity Investment in Nigeria
[Vanguard] Nigeria has witnessed a steady decline in Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, in recent time. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, FDI was $1.19 billion in 2018, while only $934.34 million was received in 2019.
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NITAD Tasks FG On L&D Funding For Economic Growth
By ANTHONY AWUNOR, Lagos The federal government has been advised to sufficiently fund institutions that are directly involved with training and development, so as to improve the economy holistically. Mrs Janet Jolaoso, President /Chairman of Governing Council, Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD) who gave the advice recently, pointed ...
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The Zamfara, CBN Gold Trade Deal
There is no contesting the fact that Nigeria has a huge deposit of solid mineral resources. Virtually all the 36 states have one form of mineral deposit or the other including large gold deposits in some parts of Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna states. A recent study reveal that Nigeria had ...