Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Leveraging Technology For The Growth Of SMEs In Africa
As we progress into the knowledge economy in the 21st century, technology is playing an increasingly dominant role in human activity. Access to the internet via personal computers and mobile phones has increased capacity to find solutions to problems. In Nigeria, internet access is expanding rapidly. According to Statista, a ...
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A Case For Effective Regulations Of Tobacco Products
The Article titled “A case for Prudent Regulation of the Tobacco Industry” written by one Akeem Ogunlade of the Centre for Promotion of Enterprise and Business Best Practices is a fascinating read for followers of the public discourse about getting Nigeria to implement effective measures towards reducing tobacco addiction and ...
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NDLEA Intercepts 88.6KG Cannabis In Osun
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Osun State Command on Tuesday intercepted a car loaded with 88.6kg of cannabis sativa along Ife/Ilesha express road. A statement made available to newsmen by State Commandant, Mr Sam Egbeola, stated that the car containing the weed which was coming from ...
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Emefiele: Ensuring Financial System Stability
When Godwin Emefiele took office as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2014, his mind was set on not only developmental finance and exchange rate stability. A resilient financial system was also one of the main goals he highlighted in his maiden speech. A stable financial ...
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Nigeria: Defeated election candidate's relative, lawyer arrested
Atiku Abubakar's son-in-law is under money laundering probe, official says.
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Fear Of ‘One Chance’ Grips Abuja Residents
Despite the fact that the public and the law en¬forcement agencies are now famil¬iar with the modus operandi of the popular ‘One chance’ robbery syndicates, these criminals have equally devised new means to con¬tinue to ply their nefarious trade. CHRISTIANA NWAOGU brings stories of victims experiences . Threatening the security ...
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Building a Conducive Business Environment In Nigeria
The Nigerian business environment has been described as one of the most challenging in Africa, OLAJIDE FABAMISE in this report shares stakeholders’ views on the way forward for businesses in the country Last year’s business environment was characterised by inadequate power supply, poor access/high cost of funding and high transportation ...
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Crescimento econômico está associado a reformas, defende Ipea
O crescimento da economia depende da aprovação de reformas, em especial a da Previdência Social. A avaliação é de especialistas em macroeconomia do Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea). O Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) cresceu 1,1% em 2018, o mesmo percentual de 2017. O diretor de Estudos e Políticas Macroeconômicas do ...
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Tereza Cristina anuncia reestruturação da Conab e venda de armazéns
A ministra da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento, Tereza Cristina, anunciou hoje (28), que a Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) vai passar por um processo de reestruturação, incluindo a venda de armazéns. A proposta, segundo ela, é modernizar a instituição. “Nós vamos ter algumas mudanças sim”, disse. “A gente, às vezes, precisa ...
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Wale Tinubu Marks International Day Of Education,Donates Books
In celebrating International Day of Education, group chief executive, Oando Plc, Wale Tinubu, donated 800 Nigerian Oil and Gas books to 15 universities and two national libraries across Nigeria with the aim of educating students and the public on the country’s oil and gas sector which to date forms the ...
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Tax Demand May Delay Shell’s Bonga Oil Field Takeoff
Oil giant, Shell yesterday said that Nigeria’s claims that it was owed billions in taxes could delay the development of a major oil field off the coast of the West African nation. Nigeria ordered several major foreign oil and gas companies to pay nearly $20 billion in taxes it says ...
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Tesouro Direto bate recorde de investidores
O número de investidores ativos no Tesouro Direto cresceu 47,7% e atingiu 845 mil participantes. Só em janeiro, foram registrados 58,8 mil novos investidores ativos. As informações são da Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional, vinculada ao Ministério da Economia. Em relação ao número total de investidores cadastrados, o Tesouro Direto registrou, em ...
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General Silva e Luna toma posse na Diretoria-Geral de Itaipu
O general Joaquim Silva e Luna tomou posse hoje (26) como diretor-geral brasileiro da Itaipu Binacional, em cerimônia em Foz do Iguaçu, no Paraná. Silva e Luna substitui Marcos Vitório Stamm e terá mandato até maio de 2022. Ao tomar posse, ele agradeceu a missão dada pelo presidente Jair Bolsonaro ...
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Nigeria: Moody's - Rising Foreign-Currency Deposits Will Ease Pressure On Banks
[This Day] One of the global rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service has stated that commercial banks' rising foreign-currency deposits will support the financial institutions' foreign-currency funding and ease liquidity pressure in the banking system.
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Embraer tenta reverter suspensão de assembleia de acionistas
A Embraer informou hoje (25) que está tomando todas as medidas judiciais cabíveis para reverter a decisão liminar da Justiça Federal tomada na última sexta-feira (22) que suspendeu a assembleia geral extraordinária dos acionistas da companhia convocada para amanhã. A assembleia iria colocar em votação a aprovação da negociação da empresa brasileira com a Boeing. “A Companhia tomará ...
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Entrepreneurship Key To Nigeria’s Economic Growth – Experts
Economic experts have said entrepreneurship is very essential for economic growth and development of the country, noting that the future of the nation’s economy lies in Entrepreneurial skills. According to the registrar, Institute of Credit Administration of Nigeria (ICA), Professor Chris Onalo, entrepreneurship is the foundation of any developed nation ...
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Engineer Seeks More Private Sector Participation In Housing
The immediate past chairman, Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE), Abuja chapter, Engr. Ben-Osy Okoh has sought the need for all levels of government to open up the space for more private sector participation in housing and other sectors of the economy. In an interview with journalists in Abuja, he ...
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IBEDC Achieves 365 Days Safety Milestone
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), said it recently achieved a milestone of 365 days ‘Lost Time Injury’, translating to 1.6 Million safe man-hours. The IBEDC, in a statement by its head, Branding and Corporate Communications, Mrs, Angela Olanrewaju, quoted the company’s Chief Technical Officer, Mr Ade Ayileka, to have ...
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Inadimplência das empresas fecha janeiro com alta de 5,91%
O número de empresas com contas em atraso e registradas no cadastro de inadimplentes cresceu 5,91% em janeiro ante o mesmo período de 2018. Na comparação com dezembro de 2018, o avanço foi de 7,44%, de acordo com dados da Confederação Nacional de Dirigentes Lojistas (CNDL) e do Serviço de ...
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Nigeria: Expert Woos Nigerians to Stock Investments, Active Trading
[Guardian] Nigerians have been urged to cultivate and sustain the culture of investing in the stock market, as a reliable means of making money and safeguarding their investments.
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Ecobank Promotes Online Platform For Business Owners
Managing director of Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan, has urged business owners to take advantage of the services available on the bank’s platform Omni Lite which he said is specifically optimised for them Akinwuntan reaffirmed that the bank’s recently upgraded online banking platform for businesses, Omni Lite, is versatile, secure and ...