Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Obaseki Bags 2019 Independent Newspapers’ Award, Dedicates Honour To Shaibu, Edo People
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has been honoured as the 2019 Independent Newspapers’ Governor of the Year for his administration’s commitment to improving the state’s economy and youth empowerment. Obaseki was honoured alongside his counterparts in Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje; Plateau State, Simon Lalong; Cross River State, Ben ...
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Border Closure: Custom Counts Gains In Security, Economy Sectors
The Joint Border Operation Drill, Sector 3, says it has recorded gains by improving security and economy of the country in less than two months of inauguration. The Ag. Coordinator, Joint Border Operation Drill, Sector 3, Compt. Garba Mohammed, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday ...
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Nigeria Will Be Great Despite Current Challenges, NDDC Boss
Director of Project Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Cairo Ojougboh Executive has assured that the country will be great despite it currently challenges, adding that the economy is in the right direction under President Muhammadu Buhari. Ojougboh, while noting that corruption was the major problem of the country, said ...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Critical To Power Sector Devt
A United States of America based Nigerian and a chieftain of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) Chris Emejuru, has stressed the need for foreign direct investment in the power sector, if the federal government is serious about solving the nation’s power challenges. He also canvassed for formal meetings with ...
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Nigeria: Foreign Direct Investment - Govt Score High Marks
[This Day] Nigerians may not notice, but, some agencies of the Federal Government of Nigeria, are stealthily re-writing the essence of doing business, as practiced globally. Often times, government policies have forced international investors to leave the Nigerian shores, but the example recently shown by Ms. Hadiza B. Usman, Managing ...
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With Family Planning You Cannot Be Pregnant By Chance
Getting pregnant and having a child is among the dreams of many couples. This is particularly so in many African countries, like Nigeria. However, it requires your time, energy, and finances to care for and raise a child. It is much easier if you have the support of your partner ...
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KDHA Passes Bill To Reduce Poverty At Grassroot Level
The Kaduna State House of Assembly has passed a bill which is geared towards poverty eradication in the state. The Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Mukhtar Isa Hazo who presided over the sitting said the bill which is to substitute the Kaduna agency for community and social development law, ...
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Army Intercepts Petrol Tanker With 100 Bags Of Foreign Rice
The Nigerian Army has intercepted a petrol tanker conveying 100 bags of foreign rice in Nsukka axis of Enugu State. Brig.-Gen. Christopher Ataki, Commander 82 Division Garrison, Enugu, disclosed this while handling over the tanker and other smuggled items to the Enugu/Anambra/Ebonyi Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Enugu ...
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NIMN Drags Marketers To Court Over Illegal Practice
For allegedly flouting marketing practice rules in Nigeria the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) has announced plans to go ahead with the prosecution of six marketing practitioners, including marketing chieftains of Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Girish Sharma; Anheuser-Buch Inbev’s (AB Inbev), Mrs Tolulope Adedeji and Lafarge Africa Plc’s Mr. ...
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Coronavirus: ECCIMA Allays Fears, Says Enugu Int’l Trade Fair Will Hold
President of the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA), Sir Emeka Nwandu, has said that measures have been put in place to ensure that outbreak of coronavirus does not affect the forthcoming 31st Enugu International Trade Fair, billed for March 13 to March, 23, 2020. The chamber ...
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Condemning NEPZA’s Failure To Save Africoat in the Hands of LADOL
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) abdicated one of its functions of supervising and co-coordinating “the various functions of various public sector organisations operating within the export processing zones and resolving any dispute that may arise among them,” when it allowed the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) to ...
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Why The Law Requires Pre-election Cases To Be Decided Before Elections
In a unanimous judgment delivered on February 14, 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria sacked the Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo who had run on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The judgment was nullified on the grounds that Degi-Eremieoyo presented false information ...
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Concerns Over Rising Cases Of Oil Theft
The recent revelation that Nigeria lost about 17 per cent of its four year budget to crude oil theft by the New Nigeria Foundation (NNF), further lay credence to data by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), that crude theft is bleeding the economy to coma. CHIKA IZUORA reports Late ...
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PMB’s Stand On Assets Declaration And Matters Arising
The spirit and intent of the law on asset declaration was created to make room for public scrutiny of assets declared by public officials. This is clearly expressed but with some shortfalls in the provision of paragraph 3 (c) of the Third Schedule, Part 1 of the 1999 Constitution of ...
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Lagos Reiterates Commitment To Delivering Qualitative Education
Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to invest hugely in its education system to prepare the students for global competitiveness. Speaking at the 2020 Education Public-Private Partnership Dialogue, the event which was themed, ‘Creating A Better Future Through Education’ Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said his government would ...
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Just In: Police Surround APC National Secretariat
A detachment of men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have arrived the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ostensibly to forestall any breakdown of law and order. LEADERSHIP observed that a total of 9 trucks full of well-armed police men are at the APC secretariat with ...
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Percentual de famílias com dívidas cai em fevereiro
O percentual de famílias que em fevereiro de 2020 relataram ter dívidas atingiu 65,1%. O nível representa queda na comparação com os 65,3% registrados em janeiro, e maior do que os 65,6% de dezembro de 2019. As dívidas ser referem a cheques pré-datados, cartão de crédito, cheque especial, carnê de loja, ...
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Obiora Assumes Duty As New CBN Deputy Governor
Dr Kingsley Isitua Obiora has formally assumed office as deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), replacing Dr Okwu Joseph Nnanna, who exited from the Bank on February 2, 2020, the apex bank said in a statement yesterday. Welcoming Dr Obiora on board, the governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, ...
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Sanwo-Olu, Elumelu Harp On PPP For Economic Devt
The governor of Lagos state, Babajde Sanwo-Olu and the chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu has stressed the importance of public private partnership in the development and growth of the economy. Both of them spoke at a ceremony marking the refurbishment of Afriland Towers in Lagos. Sanwo-Olu while commending Afriland ...
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OLAM, Kano Dairy Sign MoU On Pilot Milk Collection Model
Outspan Nigeria Ltd, an Olam Group company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kano Dairy and Cooperative Union on a pilot milk aggregation and collection model in Kano. The partnership which is under the auspices of the Kano State government and supported by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture ...
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Nigeria’s Economy In Perspective
International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent downgrade of its earlier growth projection for Nigeria in 2020 from 2.5 percent to 2 percent did not come as a shock, though some analysts have expressed surprise. The Fund on February 17, 2020 revised down wardsNigeria’s 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) forecast to 2.0 ...