Nigeria
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— Chinua Achebe
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Endividamento e inadimplência de famílias crescem em junho, diz CNC
O percentual de famílias brasileiras endividadas (com dívidas, em atraso ou não) e inadimplentes (com dívidas ou contas em atraso) cresceu em junho deste ano. Segundo dados da Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC), o percentual de endividados em junho deste ano chegou a 67,1%, acima dos ...
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Twenty-six Million Unemployed Did Not Seek Jobs During Pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil counts 25.6 million people who would like to be working, but did not look for a job in May during the novel coronavirus pandemic in the country, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported on Tuesday, June 16th. Of that total, 17.7 ...
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Man Jailed 6 Months For Peddling 400g Of Cannabis
LEADERSHIP : A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Basit Akangbe, to six months imprisonment for trafficking in 400g of cannabis sativa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arraigned Akangbe on a count charge of drug trafficking. He ...
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Nigeria Telecoms Sector Growth And Match To Digital Economy
LEADERSHIP : In this article, CHIMA AKWAJA, looks at the last four years of Nigeria’s telecom industry, the challenges and the milestones recorded by the telecoms regulator and why the future is bright for the citizenry. Nearly a fortnight ago, President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta for another ...
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Agropecuária pode faturar R$ 703,8 bilhões em 2020, diz ministério
O valor bruto da produção agropecuária (VBP) deve registrar, em 2020, um crescimento de 8,5% na comparação com com 2019, e chegar a R$ 703,8 bilhões, segundo dados atualizados em maio pelo Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento. Segundo o coordenador-geral de Avaliação de Políticas e Informação da Secretaria de Política Agrícola ...
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We’re Currently Rejigging Kogi Security Architecture, Restoring People’s Confidence – Commissioner
LEADERSHIP : Kogi State commissioner for Finance and Budget Planning, Asiwaju Asiru Idris has described as unfortunate the brazen attacks by gunmen within days in Isanlu and along Lokoja-Abuja Road in an interactive session as the Personality on Patriots Chat on Okun Patriots Platform. He declared the sad incidents as ...
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Oil Industry Experts See Huge Opportunities At Samsung’s Welding Facility
LEADERSHIP : Oil Industry experts have seen some opportunities that is rapidly advancing Nigeria on its path towards an industrial economy.. Some of the experts who spoke at a Webinar conference, themed, “Advancing Nigeria’s Industrial Economy” Private Sector Intervention” at the weekend, called for appropriate framework that will attract more ...
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NSCDC Reiterate Commitment To Protect Agricultural Investments
LEADERSHIP : As Federal and State governments encourage investments in agriculture, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kaduna State command has assured of its preparedness to secure such investments in the State. Commandant of Corps, Babangida Abdullahi Dutsinma made the disclosure after an inspection exercise to some Agro allied industries ...
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Experts Highlight Opportunities Of Samsung Welding Facility
LEADERSHIP : Oil industry experts have highlighted the opportunities in Samsung Welding Facility in Tarkwa Bay, Lagos, saying it will rapidly advance Nigeria’s path towards an industrial economy. Some of the experts who spoke at a Webinar conference, themed: Advancing Nigeria’s Industrial Economy: Private Sector Intervention, at the weekend, called ...
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Sterling Bank Kits 5,000 Highway Managers In Lagos
LEADERSHIP : Sterling Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, has donated 5,000 customised reflective uniforms to Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) in a bid to make highways managers in Lagos State safe as they work at dawn and dusk to keep the environment safe. Regional business executive, Institutional Banking ...
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Beneficiaries Confirm Getting CBN’s COVID-19 Fund
LEADERSHIP : Beneficiaries of the COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility (TCF) of the Central Bank of Nigeria being disbursed through the NIRSAL Micro Finance Bank have commended the apex bank as they testified to the promptness at which the fund reached their accounts. The CBN had last week announced that applicants ...
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Nigerian Mutual Funds Hit N1.26trn In 5 Months
LEADERSHIP : Total net asset of collective investment schemes and funds in Nigeria has risen to N1.257 trillion in the first five months of the year. There is no doubt that COVID-19 has affected various parts of the Nigerian economy and indeed, the world economy. One industry in Nigeria that ...
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How Millz Olawale Has Rejuvenated Entertainment Business, Others
LEADERSHIP : While reviewing a series of iconic personalities of reputable standards and skilled capacity in the Public Relations industry in Nigeria, Abuja Press was able to easily spotlight Millz Olawale. With the brightness in his career engagements and excellence in his outstanding PR records of accomplishment, it was quite ...
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Armed Forces: Guaranteeing A Secure, Terror-free Nigeria
LEADERSHIP : “Ending insurgency, banditry and other forms of criminality across the nation is being accorded appropriate priorities and the men and women of the Armed Forces of Nigeria have considerably downgraded such threats across all the geo-political zones�, were some of the excerpts from President Muhammadu Buhari’s 96-paragraph national ...
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Group Endorses Odey For C’River North Senatorial Bye-election
LEADERSHIP : A political group, Dr Stephen Odey for all Support group, Abuja chapter, has endorsed the leading contender for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Cross River State north senatorial district by￾election, Dr Stephen Odey. Dr Odey who received the group in Abuja, commended members ...
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We’ve Identified $20bn Recoverable Funds – NEITI
LEADERSHIP : Nigeria’s transparency watchdog, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said it has identified about USD 20 billion, which can be recovered from those perceived to have diverted such funds through some unethical practices in the nation’s extractive industries. According to the agency, this feat was achieved through the ...
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A’Ibom Commences COVID-19 Testing In New PCR Lab
LEADERSHIP : …Health workers comment Gov Emmanuel The newly certified Akwa Ibom State category 3 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) inbuilt laboratory at the Infectious disease unit/Isolation centre of the General hospital Ituk Mbang has commenced the testing of COVID-19 cases. The PCR lab approved last week by the Nigeria Centre ...
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E-learning: Challenges And Opportunities
LEADERSHIP : According to a 2019 executive summary on poverty and inequality by the National Bureau of Statistics, 40.1 per cent of the population in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and the largest producer of oil in Africa, is classified as poor. A UNICEF report states that over 10 million ...
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June 12: Varsity Don Tasks Nigerians On Post-COVID-19 Devt Policies
LEADERSHIP : A senior lecturer in the University of Port Harcourt, Professor Eme Ekekwe, has called for investment in agriculture, health care, restructuring of the economy, reduction in the cost of governance, and possible home a grown solution to coronavirus in a post-COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Ekekwe made the call ...
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Unity Bank To Restart Recapitalisation Talks As Agric Loans Hits N102bn
LEADERSHIP : Unity Bank Plc has said the Covid-19 pandemic may have slowed down its talks with investors, assuring that it is on course with its recapitalisation plans, as it restated its commitment towards funding the agric sector in Nigeria. Speaking at a virtual press conference yesterday, executive director, Finance ...
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Covid-19: São Gonçalo autoriza reabertura do comércio
A prefeitura de São Gonçalo decidiu autorizar a reabertura do comércio, fechado desde o início da pandemia do novo coronavírus (covid-19). O decreto, que autoriza o funcionamento de estabelecimentos comerciais no segundo município mais populoso do estado do Rio foi assinado ontem (10) pelo prefeito José Luiz Nanci. Hoje, as ...