Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Court Sentences Man To 15 Years In Prison For Peddling Cocaine
A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday, sentenced a 36-year-old man, Onyeka Efobi, to 15 years in prison for unlawful importation of 1.5 kg of Cocaine. The convict was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on a three count charge which bordered on unlawful possession, conspiracy, and ...
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Relocate From Lagos, Ogun Now, Police Tell Ritualists
The new assistant inspector general (AIG) of Police in-charge of Zone II, Lawal Shehu, has declared war on some native doctors and human parts dealers within Lagos and Ogun, urging them to relocate or face the wrath of law. The police boss said the decision to clamp down on the ...
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Toma posse diretoria da nova Agência Reguladora de Mineração
Tomaram posse hoje (6) os diretores da recém-criada Agência Nacional de Mineração (ANM), que substituirá o antigo Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral (DNPM) e será responsável pela regulamentação e fiscalização do setor de mineração no país. Quatro diretores, além do diretor-presidente, tomam posse na Agência ...
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BNDES pode superar em 2019 investimentos feitos em 2018, diz Oliveira
O presidente do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), Dyogo Oliveira, disse que a instituição tem condição de superar em 2019, o volume de desembolsos de R$ 70 bilhões previsto para este ano, mas aposta no crescimento do mercado privado no financiamento de investimentos. De acordo com ele, ...
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FG, Petroleum Marketers Meet, Agree On Settlement Of Unpaid Claims
The Federal Government and petroleum marketers on Thursday after a joint meeting have agreed on settlement of outstanding claims and assured that operations at all depots and sales will continue until further notice. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by officials of the federal government and representatives of ...
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Reps Halt Debate On Bill To Regulate Foreign Studies
The House of Representatives yesterday, stood down a bill for an Act to regulate International studies for wards and children of public officers, to strengthen indigenous institutions to provide efficient educational services for national development. The bill sought to check the rising rate with which children of public officers study ...
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NYSC Lagos to provide 20,000 corps members for election
The Lagos State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Prince Mohammed Momoh, has said the scheme would present a list of over 19,000 corps members to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to participate in election duty today. In an interview at the closing of the orientation programme for Batch ...
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Pregnancy Shouldn’t Be Death Sentence – Don
Prof. Ayodele Atsenuwa, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, says that pregnant women in Nigeria must not be allowed to die in the process of giving birth as it was part of their constitutional rights. She made this known at the 6th Annual Population Lectures Series (APLS), tagged ‘Governance: ...
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Guinness Nigeria’s Profit Before Tax Hit N1.2bn In Q1
Guinness Nigeria yesterday said its profit before tax increased to N1.2 billion in its unaudited results for first quarter period, ended September 30, 2018. The results which were released to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), showed that profit before tax was driven by lower finance charges, as a result of ...
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Senate Commends NADDC On Prudent Use Of Budgetary Allocations
The Senate Committee on Industry, Trade and Investments has commended the Nigeria Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), over the level of work that has been done to supervise the project at Lagos Polytechnic. The Senate Committee lauded the NADDC over its prudent use of budgetary allocations especially in funding ...
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Our Priority Is To Create Job Opportunities For Nigerians – Dangote
The chairman and chief executive of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said yesterday in Kano that the main priority of the company was to provide job opportunities to teeming jobless Nigerians Dangote was represented by Alhaji Mansur Ahmed, at the Dangote Day at the ongoing Kano trade fair. According ...
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Nigeria: How Nigeria Can Attract and Keep the Right Kind of Foreign Direct Investment
[The Conversation Africa] Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative offices in Nigeria.
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Fomento negocia con Hacienda para bajar los peajes de las radiales en enero
El Ministerio de Fomento ha abierto negociaciones con los ministerios de Hacienda y Economía para pactar una rebaja de las tarifas en las autopistas de peaje quebradas que han revertido al Estado. El objetivo es llegar a un acuerdo en las próximas semanas para poder aplicar el nuevo régimen de ...
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I ‘ll sponsor Media Welfare Bill in Senate, says Adeola
SENATE Committee on Local Content Chairman Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West) has pledged to sponsor a bill in the Senate for the protection and adequate welfare for journalists in the performance of their constitutional role in nation-building. He stated this at a media interaction with members of Nigeria Union ...
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KEDCO Targets N48bn In 2019
The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) says it had put in place necessary modalities to boost its revenue generation in 2019. The Managing Director of KEDCO, Dr Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna (Sardaunan Gombe), disclosed this at the just concluded marketing conference which held recently in Kano. He said, “Assessment had been done ...
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I’ll Turn Oyo’s Economy Around If Elected – Makinde
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State in the 2019 general elections, Seyi Makinde, has promised to turn around the economy of the state if elected governor. The governorship candidate in a statement in Ibadan yesterday, said he was running to be people’s governor who ...
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Nigeria: Stock Market Investments - SEC Steps Up Action On Investor Protection
[Vanguard] As part of the recovery plan for the nation's capital market the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has mapped out strategies in key areas, especially investor protection and education, to boost investor confidence and enhance the expansion of the capital market role in Nigeria's economy.
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Nigeria: Data Analytics Help Investors Execute Trade On Real-Time Basis - SEC Director
[Vanguard] Mr. Henry Adekunle Rowlands, Ag. Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services, Securities & Exchange Commission, SEC, in this interview at the 2018 SEC Academy for journalists, spoke on issues bothering on the need for capital market operators and stakeholders to embrace technology, stressing that digitization has been changing the world around ...
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Presidente do BC projeta inflação abaixo de 4% para este ano
O presidente do Banco Central (BC), Ilan Goldfajn, disse hoje (3) que o país vive um momento de crescimento econômico – lento e gradual, mas de crescimento – e deve o fechar o ano com expansão de 1,4% no PIB. De acordo com Goldfajn, no próximo ano, o Produto Interno ...
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SWAN, Nguroje Salute Super Falcons Over Victory
The chairman, governing board of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) and former deputy speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Babangida Nguroje and Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) have applauded the resilience of Nigeria’s senior national female football team, the Super Falcons for overcoming all odds to win the 2018 African ...
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Obispo Báez: Sanciones de EE.UU. son una "oportunidad" para rectificar del régimen
El obispo auxiliar de la Arquidiócesis de Managua, Monseñor Silvio José Báez, opinó que las sanciones estadounidenses contra Rosario Murillo,[...]