Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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FDI: Dimension Data Returns To Nigerian Technology Market
As part of moves to increase foreign direct investments (FDI), global technology provider, Dimension Data is returning back to the Nigerian technology market to better deliver the changing technology needs of its clients in Nigeria. The move will see Integrated ICT services provider, Internet Solutions Limited rebrand and operate as ...
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AIB Partners FRSC, LASEMA To Boost Air Accident Investigations
Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) Nigeria has entered into partnership arrangements with some notable government agencies, including the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and others. The Commissioner, AIB, Engr Akin Olateru gave the hint at the weekend during a Gateway Forum held in form of ...
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Job Loss Looms In Customs Over $3.1bn Automation Project – Bello
There seems to be an impending job loss in the customs following the approval of $3.1 billion by the federal government to automate every aspect of the service revenue business. A former comptroller general of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hamman Bello Ahmed has joined the list of maritime stakeholders ...
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Rivers: Labour Suspends Planned Protest, Reaches Agreement With Wike
Organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), has suspended its planned protest slated to commence yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, after a last-minute agreement was reached with the state government. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between labour and the ...
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Parents, Guardians Barred From Call To Bar Ceremony
The 2020 call bar ceremony has been fixed for September 15 for successful students of the Nigerian Law School (NLS). Parents and guardians have however been asked to stay away from this year’s call to bar ceremony. The Body of Benchers, the body responsible for regulation of Law education in ...
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CBN Replies NESG, Says Interventions Targeted At Saving Economy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it took critical and verifiable steps that ensured that the Nigerian economy did not spill into major financial crisis in the face of the global economic ravaging coronavirus pandemic. In a statement it issued yesterday, the apex bank noted that it ...
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CP Urges Retired Personnel In Enugu To Enrol In NHIS
The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, has urged all retired police personnel in the state to enrol in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The commissioner gave the advice in a statement on Tuesday in Enugu. The statement was signed by the command`s Public Relations Officer, ...
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BREAKING: Labour Suspends Planned Rivers Protest As Wike Caves In To Pressure
Organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) has suspended its planned protest slated for Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital after a last minute agreement was reached with the state government. The suspension followed an agreement reached on the issues in dispute ...
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Activecode Business Hub Set To Train 1000 In Forex Trading, Online Marketing
All is now set by the management of Activecode Business Hub to train about a thousand youths to acquire skills in forex trading and other aspects of online marketing simultaneously in Calabar, Lagos and Abuja. Chief Executive Officer CEO,/ Managing Director, Activecode Business Hub, Dr. Theophilus Ogimbe,disclosed this i. Calabar, ...
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STF determina inclusão das taxas de cartões de crédito e débito no cálculo do PIS/Cofins
Prevaleceu o entendimento de que essas taxas configuram receita e precisam ser tributadas O Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) decidiu que as empresas têm de incluir as taxas pagas às administradoras de cartões de crédito e débito na base de cálculo do PIS e da Cofins. A decisão ...
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Brasil em Pauta: presidente da CNC fala sobre reforma tributária
Representante do setor de comércio, bens, serviço e turismo, o presidente da Confederação Nacional do Comércio, José Roberto Tadros, lembrou que, juntas, essas atividades respondem por 73,8% da riqueza produzida no país, o Produto Interno Brasileiro (PIB). Em defesa dos setores, Tadros revelou preocupação com as propostas de alteração da ...
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Law School Education in Nigeria Under COVID-19
Legal education is at a crossroads as its model was under siege before the pandemic. In this piece, VICTOR OKEKE writes on how a new online platform is helping students weather the storm. The Nigerian Law School (NLS) has been on lockdown since March following the outbreak of coronavirus in ...
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Nigeria @60: FG Seeks Thematic Entries To Mark Anniversary From Nigerians
The federal government has called on talented, critical thinking and creative individuals or teams to produce the slogan, photograph, and a poem for Nigerians to mark the country’s 60th Anniversary. A statement by Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, and Chairman, Diamond/Innovation/Change Sub-Committee, Nigeria ...
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Don’t Mediate Crime, FIDA Urges Enforcement Agencies
The chairperson of International Federation of Female Lawyers, (FIDA) Mrs Racheal Adejoh -Andrew has urged law enforcement agencies not to mediate any form of crime especially rape noting that the law should take it full course for any crime committed. The FIDA chairperson stated this in Abuja during a training ...
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Strengthening Local Meter Manufacturing
Local Meter Producers are feeling threatened with recent deferment of 35 percent import levy by federal government. This is regarded as disincentive to local content, writes CHIKA IZUORA. Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for one year deferment of the 35 per cent import levy on electricity meters to help improve ...
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No Going Back On Planned Peaceful Protest In Rivers – TUC
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has declared that there is no going back on the planned peaceful protest by the organised labour, scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, from Monday, September 7, 2020. The Rivers State government had, on Friday, announced that it obtained an order ...
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I Have Not Been Declared Wanted, Says Yemi Idowu
Business mogul, Mr. Yemi Idowu, has refuted an online report claiming that he has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The report alleged that 250,000 hectares of land in Lekki, Lagos belonging to one Mr, Patrick Ononenyi Okonkwo was converted by Mr Idowu and Chief ...
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Nigeria Remains China’s 3rd largest Trading Partner In Africa – Envoy
The Charge d’Affaire of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, Zhao Yong, in this interview with BUKOLA OGUNSINA, said Nigeria is China’s third largest trading partner after South Africa and Angola. The envoy spoke on China, Nigeria relations in times of COVID-19, cooperation between both countries in terms of infrastructural projects, ...
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Rivers Govt Threatens Labour Leaders Over Planned Protest
The Rivers State government has reminded labour leaders in the country that it would amount to contempt of court should they go ahead with the planned peaceful protest in the state on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress ...
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Firstbank Graduates Third Batch In Development Programme
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has graduated 12 candidates in its Senior Management Development Programme (SMDP), to enhance their leadership and strategic business skills for sustainable growth in the banking sector, group head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, First Bank, Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney, disclosed, yesterday, in Lagos,. The graduation was the ...
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FG Tasked On Implementation Of Community Policing Design
The founding executive director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (CentreLSD), Dr Otive Igbuzor, has tasked the federal government on implementation of the community policing design in Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja at the 12th graduation ceremony of 45 set of students from its Leadership School, with the ...