Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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‘How Gen Ike Nwachukwu Used Economic Diplomacy To Salvage Nigeria’s Growth And Development’
One of Nigeria’s most outstanding military-diplomats, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, turns 80 years today, 1st September, 2020. Born in the “Garden City” of Port-Harcourt, this urbane-debonair-cavalier and gentlemanly former military officer, stands tall and celebrated as the man with the mida’s touch, who brought aggressive economic engagement to define ...
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Lumos Nigeria Unveils New Products, Partners MTN
Lumos Nigeria, Africa’s leading provider of high-quality solar home systems, in partnership with telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria Plc, today announced the launch of two new product offerings – Lumos Prime and Lumos Eco. The new products will enable Lumos’ customers to save up to 70% on their power cost, whilst ...
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Heritage Bank Reiterates Commitment To Youth Empowerment
Heritage Bank Plc has reiterated its commitment to deepen its support to young entrepreneurs in Nigeria to grow their businesses either as start-ups or prospective business owners. This, the bank said, is in line with its culture as timeless wealth partners, which would impact positively on the nation’s socio-economic development. ...
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Nigeria: Trade and Investment Challenges Persist As Adebayo Clocks One Year in Office
[Premium Times] On August 21, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Niyi Adebayo, a former governor of Ekiti State, as Minister of Trade and Investment.
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COVID-19: Is Nigeria Winning The War?
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruption for global health and the economy. Like other countries, Nigeria is striving to minimise the spread of the disease and maintain a low fatality rate, as eradication of the virus remains elusive, PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA writes. Winning the war against the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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Naira Firms As CBN Prepares Forex Sales To BDCs
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) say it has set aside N432 billion to fund nine agricultural commodities value chains in the 2020 wet season. Similarly, the apex bank also said it plans to release a framework for the integration of non-interest window in all its intervention programmes, particularly, the ...
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COVID-19: Most Nigerian CEO’s Worry Over Future Of Real Estate – Study
About 84 per cent of Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s) in Nigeria have agreed that real estate industry in Nigeria is plagued due to the Coronavirus pandemic, especially companies in the business of office rentals. This revelation is contained in the recently published CEO Report, a Philips Consulting initiative for 100 ...
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FG Moves To Block Annual Loss Of $2.1bn To Capital Flight In Telecom Sector
The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has said there is an indication that the telecommunication sector is losing as high as $2.157 billion annually to capital flight. To this end, the ministry of Communication and Digital Economy of Nigeria has moved to block the loopholes by developing a ...
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Buhari, COVID-19 And Salvation In Agriculture
Even President Muhammadu Buhari’s harshest critics will acknowledge that the man has made some very appreciable strides in the agricultural sector which is the bedrock of the economy, politics, security and social stability of any serious nation. The single idea underlying his policies in that sector is to free Nigeria ...
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Assets Recovery: Senate, AMCON To Move Against Saboteurs – Sen. Uba Sani
The Chairman Senate Committee on Banking Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Uba Sani, has said that his committee and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) have identified strategies and tactics being employed by debtors to stall the repayment of loans. Uba Sani explained further that one of their ...
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Need For Blood Safety Crisis Regulation, Quality, Innovation
JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH in this piece writes on the need for blood safety crisis regulation and innovation in Nigeria. During the public hearing on the Bill for the Establishment of a National Blood Service Commission, the sponsor of the proposed law, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, revealed that his daughter who was born ...
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CMN autoriza a transferência de R$ 325 bi do BC para o Tesouro
O órgão pleiteava R$ 400 bilhões. Recursos serão destinados ao pagamento da Dívida Pública Mobiliária Interna O Conselho Monetário Nacional (CMN) autorizou nesta quinta-feira a transferência de R$ 325 bilhões do Banco Central (BC) para o Tesouro Nacional. A medida era um pleito do Tesouro, que vinha ...
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Sindifisco vai apresentar proposta tributária que pode render R$ 13,6 bi em receitas
Sindicato Nacional dos Auditores Fiscais da Receita Federal do Brasil vai enviar a proposta para o Congresso e o Ministério da Economia Na próxima semana, o Sindicato Nacional dos Auditores Fiscais da Receita Federal do Brasil (Sindifisco Nacional) vai apresentar aos parlamentares e equipe econômica uma proposta de tributação da ...
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PENGASSAN Tasks FG On PIB, Economic Recovery Amidst COVID-19
Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has urged the federal government to come up with a roadmap that will prevent a total collapse of the economy from the global effects of the COVID1 9 pandemic. President of Union, Engr. Ndukaku Michael Ohaeri, while speaking at the 6th Triennial ...
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Siemens: Setting The Pace for Good Corporate Citizenship in Nigeria
In this piece, ANTHONY AWUNOR reports that Siemens’ technology, products and services have contributed to driving the Nigerian economy with a robust corporate governance which is worthy of emulation. Nigeria has the largest economy in Sub Saharan Africa driven by growth in agriculture, telecommunications and services. It is however, predominantly ...
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RTS Global Insurance Brokers Expands Operations To Alaro City
RTS Global Insurance Brokers Ltd, a leading insurance and re-insurance broker, will expand its business in Lagos with a move to Alaro City, Lagos’ new city in the Lekki Free Zone. The firm, which provides solutions for insurance and risk management, announced that it will build its new office in ...
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Uba Sani And Kaduna North Central In The Senate
It is not unusual but it is certainly not a regular occurrence during sittings of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for the presiding officer to slam the gavel and then proceed to eulogize a fellow Senator for a job well done, especially following the passage of an ...
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NBS Report: How Nigeria Mitigated Effect Of Negative Growth – Presidency
The Presidency has said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published on Monday August 24, 2020, the 2nd Quarter (Q2) 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates, which measures economic growth. According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, Nigeria’s (GDP) declined by –6.10% (year-on-year) in real terms in the ...
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CNC: queda na intenção de consumo das famílias desacelera
A Intenção de Consumo das Famílias (ICF) apresentou a quinta retração consecutiva em agosto (-0,2%), permanecendo com a pontuação estável no comparativo mensal com 66,2 pontos em uma escala de zero a 200 pontos. Este é o pior índice para um mês de agosto desde o início da série histórica, ...
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Peace Returns To Enugu APC As Onyema’s Parallel Structure Returns.
The crisis rocking the All Progressive Party( APC) in Enugu State may have finally been laid to rest as aggrieved members of the party loyal to the foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyema have pledged their loyalty to the state chairman, Dr Been Nwoye. It would be recalled that the party ...
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Nigeria: New PIB Designed to Make Nigeria Investment Haven - Sylva
[Leadership] The minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday said the country's oil and gas industry was being positioned to become an investment destination as the new petroleum industry bill (PIB) will take care of all issues related to making the sec- tor attractive to investors.