Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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UKaid Spends £14.98m On Nigeria Social Reform, Ease Of Doing Business
The Head of DFID Office in Nigeria, Mr. Chris Pycroft has said that the British government under the UKaid programme spent £14.98 million on the Policy Development Facility Phase II (PDF II) Project which was focused on social reform programmes and the Nigeria ease of doing business. Pycroft who said ...
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South Korea FDI Underway As FG Settles SHIN, LADOL Dispute
Following the intervention of the federal government to resolve the dispute between Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria Limited (SHIN) and LADOL, Nigeria is set to attract more foreign direct investments (FDI) from South Korea. LEADERSHIP gathered that with the resolution of the feud, many of the big Korean companies have shown ...
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SON Destroys Substandard Mobile Phone Accessories Worth N480m
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) yesterday, destroyed substandard mobile phone accessories worth N480 million Director- general, SON, Osita Aboloma, said the phone accessories were seized by SON for not meeting up with required standards. Aboloma said the move was to serve as deterrent to unscrupulous importers who indulged in ...
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el-Rufai Commends Olam On Agricultural Investments, Reforms
Olam Nigeria, a leading player in the Nigerian agriculture value chain, has been commended by governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai of, for paving the way through its agricultural investments and reforms in the country. El-Rufai, who was speaking recently at the ground-breaking ceremony for a Tomato processing factory, held ...
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Access Bank Lagos City Marathon: Driving Economic Growth Through Sports
When in 2016, the management of Access Bank Plc in partnership with the Lagos State Government hosted the inaugural edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, it was basically to encourage healthy lifestyle by encouraging people to engage in physical exercise. Three years down the line, Nigerians are beginning ...
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FG Advocates For Joint Bilateral Agreements With German Govt
The Federal Commissioner, National Commission For Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Sen. Basheer Garba Mohammed on Wednesday advocated for joint bilateral agreements with the Germany government for the promotion of more regular migration. Mohammed said this yesterday in a press conference in Abuja during the visit of the ...
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Nigeria: Wike Tasks Ease of Doing Business Council On Investment Climate
[This Day] Port Harcourt -Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has inaugurated the Rivers State Ease of Doing Business Council (EODBC) with a charge to the council to improve the investment climate of the state.
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FG To Transform Nigeria’s Economy Using Emerging Digital Technologies
As Nigeria continues its quest to move the nation from depending solely on oil, the federal government has revealed its resolve to transform the nation’s economy using emerging digital technologies. The minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami made this known while addressing delegates at the Seventh ...
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Visa On Arrival Takes Effect As FG Launches New Policy
The federal government yesterday in Abuja launched a New Visa Policy (NVP) to boost the nation’s economy and allow travellers to visit Nigeria without visas and only commence the process of obtaining visa upon arrival into the country. The Service Public Relations Officer, Mr Sunday James, who disclosed this in ...
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Why S’South Should Participate In Export Development Programme – NEXIM
Mr Abba Bello, the managing director, Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM) has said the South South states in Nigeria should participate in export development programmes of government because the region is blessed with huge non-oil export potentials, which could be developed to boost export earnings, create more jobs and promote ...
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LCCI Calls For Urgent Traffic Law, Enforcement Strategies
Following motorcycle, tricycle restriction in Lagos State, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has recommended an urgent stakeholder engagement to fine tune the traffic law and enforcement strategies. The director-general of LCCI, Muda Yusuf said that one of the biggest challenges of urbanisation is traffic congestion and this ...
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The Event Xperience Africa Wraps Up As Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, Mo Abudu, Others Engage Event Entrepreneurs
The second edition of The Event Xperience Africa (TEXA2020) convened by one of the pioneers of the Nigerian event industry, Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, ended yesterday in Lagos with Mo Abudu, CEO Ebonylife TV; Mai Atafo, Creative Director, Atafo; Steve Harris, Business Coach; Edi Lawani, Ceci Johnson, Osayi Alile, Chukwuka Monye and ...
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Nigeria: Alaro City Attracts New Investments in Production, Housing to Lagos
[This Day] Exactly one-year after its launch in Lekki Free Zone in Lagos, Alaro City has witnessed a new wave of investments with the commencement of operations of Ariel Foods, a multinational therapeutic food producer, and multi-sector investments in housing, soap and detergent production, construction materials and equipment, media and ...
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Singapore ‘falsehoods’ law shows risks of fake news fight
Nigeria and Thailand see city state as model but activists and news outlets push back
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Flour Mills Nigeria Records 23% PBT In Q3
Nigeria’s leading integrated food business and agro-allied group, Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (FMN), has announced its quarter three results for the year 2019/2020 with Profit Before Tax (PBT) increasing by 23 per cent to N3.7 billion in Q3. Also, the results show that profits increased by nine per cent ...
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Lagos Policy Focus Is To Attract Greater Investment, Says Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the weekend declared that attracting local and direct foreign investment to accelerate growth of the state remains the major focus of his administration’s policies. Sanwo-Olu stated this on the one-year anniversary of its Alaro City launch in Lekki Free Zone and the unveiling ...
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Exploration Of Untapped 42bn Mt Bitumen Will Diversify Economy – FG
Nigeria has taken steps to explore and exploit its bitumen potential put at 42.74 billion metric tonnes located in Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Rivers, and Bayelsa States. The minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, said that when the mineral resource was fully tapped, the diversification of the economy ...
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Edo Govt, Automotive Council Collaborate On South-South Training Centre In Benin1
Edo Govt, Automotive Council Collaborate On South-South Training Centre In Benin In line with the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki’s plans to transform Edo State into a transport and automotive hub in Nigeria, the state government has struck a partnership with the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) ...
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Nigeria To Share From $4trillion Africa’s Blue Economy Potentials
Nigeria can benefit immensely from the $4trilion Africa’s blue economy potential through the diversification of the nation’s economy with specific emphasis on the blue economy, LEADERSHIP Sunday learned. The blue economy is harvesting of the benefits of fishing, agriculture, tourism, energy and other supplementary maritime derivatives to fulfil Africa’s economic ...
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Social Media Proliferated Fashion Business In Nigeria – Ndubisi
Nigerian menswear brand cloths by OGB is certainly one every modish man should consider. In this interview with ADENIYI ADUNOLA and MILLICENT AREBUN ONUOHA, the CEO of the brand Ndubisi OGB Akwiwu decries the terrible state of power supply in the state and the corresponding drain on the financial resources ...
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Nigeria: A New Case for a Commonwealth Based On Trade By Muhammadu Buhari
[Vanguard] The United Kingdom's exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I - like many other Commonwealth leaders - also seek a new settlement: not only of closer relations ...