Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Removing Landmines And Pitfalls Blocking Foreign Investments In Nigeria
Citing the statistics by the United Nations, the Worldometer had estimated Nigeria’s population at over 207 million. With such huge population, and Nigeria’s strategic location in the Gulf of Guinea, the country represents an attractive market. However, the dearth of foreign investments, poor state of infrastructure, and absence of competitiveness ...
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Ministério Público apura superfaturamento em compra de máscaras pela prefeitura do Rio
O MPRJ também investiga a aquisição de outros materiais médicos durante pandemia Pixabay O Ministério Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) informou, em comunicado, a abertura de processo para apurar suspeita de sobrepreço e de superfaturamento em compra de máscaras de proteção, e outros materiais médicos, ...
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Reforma tributária é medida com maior impacto sobre o PIB potencial, diz Waldery
Secretário de Fazenda do Ministério da Economia disse ainda que o investimento deve ser liderado pelo setor privado A reforma tributária é uma medida estrutural que trará grande benefício para a economia e a população, e é a que tem maior impacto no PIB potencial, disse ...
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9mobile Pledges Support For FG’s Policy, Strategy On Digital Economy
Nigeria’s leading telecoms provider, 9mobile, has expressed its support towards the country’s economic transformation through the Digital Economy Policy and Strategy of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Alan Sinfield, who was accompanied by members of the management team, gave the assurance recently while ...
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Labour Suspends Planned Strike As FG Reverses Electricity Tariff Hike
Organised Labour, in the early hours of today, suspended its planned strike and protest following the decision of the federal government to reverse the hike in electricity tariff. This was the outcome of a marathon meeting between the government and the labour unions, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and ...
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Sports’ Contributes To GDP Only 0.005 % – Statistician-general
By Salifu Usman, Abuja The Statistician-general of the federation, Yemi Kale, has rated sports’ contribution to Nigeria’s economic low, saying the sector accounts for 0.005 percent of the country’s GDP. Speaking at the 26th Nigerian Economic Summit pre-summit webinar themed “Re-categorization of Sports as a Business Sector of the Economy’ ...
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AfCFTA: Nigeria To Benefit From $900bn Global Shipping Business
As deliberations and ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) continues, the president of Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN), Dr Mark George Onyung, has said that Nigeria would benefit from over $900 billion daily global shipping business. Onyung, who disclosed this at the weekend in Lagos, during ...
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BREAKING: NLC, TUC Suspend Planned Strike
By Michael Oche Organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended Monday’s nationwide strike following agreements reached with the federal government. Part of the agreement reached include reversal of the new electricity tariff for a period of two weeks pending the out come ...
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Saving Nigerian Importers From Claws Of Foreign Shipping Companies
Recently, foreign shipping companies slammed Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) on Nigeria bound cargoes but, Nigerians through the Nigerian Shippers Council(NSC) have protested the additional freight rate increment. YUSUF BABALOLA writes. The best thing that happened to the Nigerian maritime industry in the last eight years, was the appointment of the ...
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Oyah Sports FC Eye NPFL Promotion
By Olawale Ayeni, Abuja Ahead of the start of Nigeria National League (NNL) 2020/21 season, the president of Oyah sports FC of Suleja in Niger state, Osman Sillah has said that his team would not leave any stone unturned in their quest to gain promotion to the Nigerian Professional Football ...
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NCAC Opens New Chapter On Morality, Social Values
With conscious efforts, the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) is selling and putting in good shape the Nigerian culture, morality and social values, not only to the outside world but within Nigeria. At a recent roundtable on social values, it opened a new chapter with admirable attributes such ...
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CBN Recovers Over N400bn From Agric Loans
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said it has recovered N400 billion out of the N600 billion, which it had given out to private sector, and state governments to enhance large scale farming in Nigeria under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS) The CBN’s director, Development Finance Department, Mr ...
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Tenure Renewal: Akobundu Urges AUDA-NEPAD/APRM Staff, Stakeholders For Support
By Olawale Ayeni, Abuja As President Muhammadu Buhari re-appoints Princess Gloria Akobundu as the National Coordinator/ Chief Executive Officer, African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development/African Peer Review Mechanism (AUDA-NEPAD/APRM) Nigeria, for another four years in office, it’s her season of thanksgiving to God Almighty and appreciation to the ...
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We Shall Proceed With Monday Strike In C/River – Organized Labour Insists
Richard Ndoma, Calabar The leadership of organized labour (Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress TUC ) and their affiliates Cross River State branch, has vow to go on with the proposed Monday protest and strike as planned earlier unless they get directives from the national leadership of their restraining them ...
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NEPZA Set To Establish Investors Promotion Dept
By Richard Ndoma, Calabar All is now set by management of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone NEPZA, to set up a department that will focus on how to solve investors’ problems operating in the free trade Zones. Managing Director /MD, Nigeria Export Processing Zone NEPZA, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba stated this ...
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Nigerians Divided Over Labour Strike, Protest
Barely 48 hours to the nationwide strike and protest scheduled for Monday by organised Labour, mixed reactions have trailed the planned action with most Nigerians appraising the necessity or otherwise of the industrial action. Labour unions in the country, including the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and ...
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Intenção de consumo das famílias volta a crescer após cinco quedas
A Intenção de Consumo das Famílias, medida pela Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC), aumentou 1,3% em setembro, após cinco quedas consecutivas, e subiu a 67,6 pontos. Mesmo com a alta, o índice registrou o pior desempenho para um mês de setembro desde o início da série ...
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Don’t Shutdown Economy, NATBO Urges NLC, TUC
By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah, The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have been urged the shelve their planned strike on Monday . The No Alternative To Buhari-Osinbajo 2019 (NATBO 2019) said Nigeria, like all other countries of the world, is facing serious economic crises occasioned by the ...
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NSCDC, Police Train 150 Personnel On Alternative Dispute Resolution
No fewer than 150 officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) , and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have been trained on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). The four – day training, which was done in partnership with the UNDP, on September 21 – 24 at ...
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FG, Labour Refuse To Shift Ground As Court Stops Protest
I’m Talks between the federal government and organised labour on recent hike in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff ended in a deadlock last night. This came as the National Industrial Court yesterday granted an order restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), their ...
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Real Estate Requires Patience, Hard Work- De Joe
According to Iloduba Tochukwu Joemartins AKA De Joe one of the notable estate developers in the lucrative Lagos property sector, survival in business of any kind needs a certain strategy. In the words of Iloduba, CEO, Joe Best Estate Development and Property Limited, the greatest strategy to survive in Real ...