Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Superávit da balança comercial em 2019 deve ser 38% maior que em 2018
As exportações brasileiras deverão atingir US$ 220,117 bilhões em 2019, que representa recuo de 7,7% em comparação aos US$ 237,485 bilhões estimados para 2018. O dado consta da previsão da balança comercial para 2019, divulgada hoje (13), no Rio de Janeiro, pela Associação de Comércio Exterior do Brasil (AEB). Para ...
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Nigeria signs $1b Intra-Africa trade deal with Afreximbank
Nigeria yesterday signed a $1billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to promote trade. The trade facilitation instrument will be managed by the Nigeria-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion Programme (NATIPP), AFREXIM, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and the Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM). Afreximbank Chairman ...
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Nigeria owes IOCs $5.1b, says NNPC
NIGERIA indebtedness to International Oil Companies (IOCs) stood at $5.1 billion, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) told the Senate yesterday. The $5.1 billion, according to the Corporation, was accumulated from the Joint Venture Cash Call (JVC) business arrangement the country has with IOCs on oil exploration. But the NNPC ...
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PPP Approach To Rehabilitate Refineries Slow – PMB
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern that the Public Private Partnership approach adopted by his administration to rehabilitate the nation’s existing refineries has taken longer than expected. Buhari said this yesterday when he received in audience the newly elected national executives of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas ...
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How A Doctor Helped Turn Lagos Swamp To Sustainable Trade Zone
Unlike most business people who have a doctorate, Dr Amy Jadesimi really is a doctor. The accomplished CEO of a major Nigerian logistics company – that is also the country’s first privately-developed port terminal – started her working life as a medical doctor, graduating from the prestigious Oxford University. She ...
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Nigerian Women Leading In Poverty – UN
The United Nations Women country representative in Nigeria, Ms Comfort Lamptey, has said Nigerian women are leading in poverty, stressing that more than 73 per cent of Nigerian women in business have not had access to any form of financial facility to support their enterprise. To tackle the challenge, the ...
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Las autopistas de peaje rescatadas serán gratuitas por la noche
Dentro de la modificación de tarifas para autopistas de peaje quebradas que han revertido al Estado, el Ministerio de Fomento ha decidido que estas carreteras serán gratuitas de 00:00 a 06:00 horas, según informan fuentes gubernamentales a elEconomista. Esta medida se suma a la rebaja media de alrededor del 30% ...
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Why PIB is delayed – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said that reforming the Petroleum Industry was necessary to unlock numerous untapped potentials for the nation and that he will not be in a rush to carry out reforms. According to him, the reforms in the industry must be well thought out and must have ...
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UN empowers 250 women on financial literacy in Kaduna
No fewer than 250 women have been empowered on financial literacy by the United Nations (UN), in partnership with P and G and afrigrants in Kaduna on Wednesday. The aim of the training for micro and small women entrepreneurs which lasted for three months was for the participants to make ...
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Nigeria expects economy to grow by 3pc in 2019
Nigeria's economy is expected to grow by 2 percent this year and by 3 percent in 2019, the country's Minister of Budget Udoma Udo Udoma has said.
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TCU pede ao governo envio de mais informações sobre cessão onerosa
O Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) determinou hoje (12) que o Ministério de Minas e Energia e o Conselho Nacional de Política Econômica (CNPE) encaminhem informações complementares a respeito das negociações em torno da revisão do contrato de cessão onerosa firmado entre a Petrobras e a União e o ...
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Sign Electoral Amendment Bill now, Atiku, Ezekwesili tell Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari is under intense pressure to sign the controversial Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill into law. Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili yesterday joined those urging the President to have a rethink on his ...
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$8.1b dispute: Court adjourns MTN, CBN case to next year
A Nigerian judge adjourned yesterday a hearing over an $8.1 billion dispute between South African telecoms giant MTN and the central bank until Jan. 22. The dispute is over the transfer of $8.1 billion of funds which Nigeria’s central bank said the company had sent abroad in breach of foreign-exchange regulations. ...
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Customs Intercepts 66 Trucks Of Smuggled Rice In Lagos, Ogun
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has unveiled smuggled items, including 58 vehicles, 39,664 bags of 50kg rice and others with an approximate Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N5.1 billion. The seizures, recorded from August 17 to December 10, 2018 under the incumbent ...
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Bonet: "La reforma del método de financiación de la Cámara de Comercio es urgente"
Es el objetivo con el que el recién reelegido presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de España y copresidente de la compañía catalana Freixenet, José Luis Bonet, afronta los próximos cuatro años de mandato.
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Colnago diz que redução de isenção tributária é caminho necessário
O ministro do Planejamento, Esteves Colnago, disse hoje (11) que a redução de isenção tributária é um caminho necessário. “Hoje temos mais de R$ 300 bilhões de benefícios tributários. Então, isso necessariamente tem que ser pensado”, disse ao chegar para cerimônia de pose do novo presidente do Tribunal de Contas da ...
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Church Trains, Empowers 40 Members
A religious group, Flock of God Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Holy Trinity Parish, Maitama-Abuja, has trained and empowered 40 of its members in different skills acquisition, to enable them become self-reliant. Speaking during the organisation’s 2018 Business Dinner, the chairman economic empowerment committee, Bro Henry Ashiegbu, explained that the beneficiaries were ...
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Workers To Start Embarrassing Govs Owing Salaries – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday said that workers in the country would be put on alert to disgrace governors owing salaries and pensions at the airports. President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, while addressing the Nigeria Union of Pensioners at its 17th anniversary said the Nigerian workers will collaborate ...
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Lagos To Jail Unruly Motorists 3 years
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday urged motorists to comply with the provisions of the State Traffic Laws, warning that government will not hesitate to bring the full weight of the law on offenders. The state government in a statement issued by the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, ...
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Labour plans naming, shaming of debtor-governors
NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) President Comrade Ayuba Wabba yesterday warned state governors owing salaries of their workers and pensioners that international disgrace and embarrassment await them in the countries they visit henceforth. Wabba, who is the newly elected president of International Trade Union Confederation, the global trade union body, said ...
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New Horizons, Academy Partner On Digital Educational Techs
New Horizons Computer Learning Systems Nigeria Limited has partnered with Abuja-based Greater Heights Academy to integrate the new technologies such as robotics, drone technology, AI, coding, 3D printing and Internet of things amongst others into the school’s academic curriculum. This is aimed at stimulating intrinsic innovative capabilities among school children ...