Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Law Doesn’t Forbid A Woman To Be Speaker– Nkeiruka
LEADERSHIP: Hon Onyejeocha Chidubem Nkeiruka is one of the long serving female legislators in the National Assembly and currently, a contester for the speakership of House of Representatives. In this interview, she told select journalists why the cap fits her. You have declared your intention to want to be the ...
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Visa Introduces Virtual Payments To 2m In Sub-Saharan Africa
LEADERSHIP: Visa, the global payments technology company and Branch, the most downloaded finance app in Africa, have announced a partnership that will see virtual Visa prepaid debit cards offered to over two million consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This partnership represents Visa’s broader strategy to collaborate with and invest in rapidly ...
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Firm Transforms To Carbon, Expands Financial Services
LEADERSHIP: Paylater, a Nigerian financial technology company specializing in consumer lending, has relaunched its brand changing its name to Carbon as part of its transition to a fully-fledged digital financial services platform that now offers bill payments, fund transfers and savings products, in addition to loans. Carbon positions itself as ...
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Infrastructure Breach Undermining Operations – IBEDC
LEADERSHIP: The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, has lamented harsh operating environment, saying as a business it is currently operating at a great loss. The company said despite other challenges it is facing community unrest leading to infrastructure damages at some point and customer aggression towards its staff is impacting ...
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NCC Reads Riot Act, Threatens to Jail Yahoo Boys
LEADERSHIP: Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has threatened to jail yahoo boys who take delight in defrauding their countrymen through the use of mobile phones to desist forth with or be prepared to face the full weight of the law stressing that the era where Nigerians are defrauded through the internet ...
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NSE Moves 232.77m Shares In Positive Trading
LEADERSHIP: The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday moved 232.77 million shares valued N1.97 billion exchanged in 2,677 deals. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this was in contrast with a turnover of 224.03 million worth N2.10 billion on Thursday. An analysis of the activity chart indicates that ...
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CEO CONFIDENTIAL : Kenneth’s Passion For Smallholder Farmers
LEADERSHIP: Mr. Kenneth Obiajulu, the Co-Founder and Managing Director, Farmgate Africa, in this interview with OLAJIDE FABAMISE and OYINLOLA AWONUGA, sheds light on the need to diversify Nigeria’s economy from oil, as well as improving agricultural businesses and smallholder farmers in the process. KENNETH IN SHORT • A first-class graduate ...
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Governo vai rever monopólio da Petrobras no setor de gás, diz ministro
O ministro de Minas e Energia, Bento Albuquerque, anunciou hoje (11), que o governo federal vai abrir o mercado de gás natural à concorrência. Para o ministro, o fato da empresa estatal Petrobras atuar com exclusividade na maior parte das atividades relacionadas à importação e produção do gás é contrária ...
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Modelo de capitalização da Eletrobras deve ser anunciado até junho
O modelo de capitalização da Eletrobras deve ser anunciado até junho, reafirmou, hoje (11), o ministro de Minas e Energia, Bento Albuquerque. Conforme o próprio ministro já tinha explicado em março, a meta do governo com a capitalização é permitir que a empresa continue investindo na expansão do setor elétrico ...
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Zimbabwe GDP Grows By 4% In 2018 -Treasury
LEADERSHIP: Zimbabwe’s economy grew by four per cent last year, below an initial target of 4.5 per cent, Treasury said on Thursday, as the country struggles with a severe shortage of dollars and surging inflation. Treasury said in its fourth-quarter report ending December that the government’s foreign and domestic debt ...
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FG, IMF Disagree On Rising Debt
LEADERSHIP: The federal government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have expressed divergent views on the subject of rising debt and taking loans from foreign sources. While the IMF says that rising government debt levels could make the global economy more vulnerable to another severe downturn, the federal government has ...
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Stakeholders Task FG On Ease Of Doing Business
LEADERSHIP: Business stakeholders under Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) have called on the federal government to scale up its commitment to the ease of doing business agenda. This formed the discussion of the Council of the LCCI bi monthly meeting in Lagos on April 3, 2019 , according ...
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Emefiele’s Control And IMF’s Applause
LEADERSHIP: In a world where many economies are suffering and where there is no shortage of gloom forecast, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut Nigeria a break when it applauded the ‘tight monetary policy stance” of the Central Bank of Nigeria as yielding positive results for the economy. The IMF ...
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Niger Goes Tough On Forest Degradation, Depletion
LEADERSHIP: Niger State government has warned illegal forest exploiters against degradation and depletion of the biological resources, as the government was ready to enforce the existing law against deforestation for economic gains. The deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Mohammed Ketso who made this known when he flagged off the ...
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CBN Defends Position On Agriculture Financing, MSMEs
LEADERSHIP: The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says it is directly involved in financing agriculture, infrastructure and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to ensure real growth in the economy. Mr Isaac Okorafor, CBN’s Director, Corporate Communication, said this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...
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KIEK Foundation Calls For Unity, Fairness, Love Through Sports
LEADERSHIP: …as Kuchingoro IDP camp emerges Winner of the KIEK foundation Peace Cup 2019 In an effort to celebrate and honour the vulnerable of the society, KIEK foundation in partnership with UNESCO marked International Day Of Sport For Development And Peace over the weekend with a Peace Competition. The event ...
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Edo, CBN Partner To Boost State’s Agripreneur Programme
LEADERSHIP: Determined to provide farmers with access to funding and other inputs to increase productivity, the Edo state Government has partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on a synergy between the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme and the state’s Agripreneur programme. Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Agriculture, ...
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IMF Projects Slow Global Economic Growth In 2019
LEADERSHIP: …Increases growth projection for Nigeria The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has projected a slowdown in growth for 70 per cent of world economy in 2019. The chief economist and director, Research Department at the IMF, Ms Gita Gopinath, said this in her presentation of the World Economic Outlook for ...
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Terrorism Has No Religion, Race –Çavuşoğlu
LEADERSHIP: The Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has urged all hands to be on deck to surmount all forms of global terrorism, insisting that terrorism has no religion, language, race or nationality. In a statement made available by the Turkish Embassy in Abuja to LEADERSHIP, Çavuşoğlu made the statement ...
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Libya Crisis: Foreign Powers Evacuate Personnel
LEADERSHIP: International powers have begun evacuating personnel from Libya amid a worsening security situation. US Africa Command said it had relocated an unspecified contingent of US forces, while India said it had evacuated peacekeepers to Tunisia. Rebel forces under Gen Khalifa Haftar have advanced from the east with the aim ...
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Two Weeks After, No Respite For Kubwa Ophanage Home
LEADERSHIP: On Tuesday, March 27, 2019 at exactly 3.00pm, heavy duty machines of the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, descended on an orphanage home, Divine Wounds of Jesus Christ Orphanage in Kubwa, Abuja, and demolished the building which was reportedly housing 150 orphans. The action of the Department of Development ...