Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Edo Assembly Passes N10.8bn Supplementary Budget
\ The Edo State House of Assembly on Monday in Benin City, passed into law, a N10,874,000,000 Supplementary Budget for year 2018 fiscal year, and not ‘N160 extra budget’ billion as erroneously reported by some of Nigeria’s newspapers on Tuesday November 6, 2018. With the N10,874,000,000 supplementary budget passed into ...
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2019: Credible Elections Will Boost Respect For Nigeria, Says Gov Okowa
\ Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has said free, fair and credible 2019 general elections will boost respect for Nigeria among comity of nations and attract Foreign Direct Investment. Governor Okowa made the disclosure today when the recently inaugurated executive committee of the Delta State chapter of the ...
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Obaseki’s Sports Reform Propels Bendel Insurance FC To Premier League, As Team Beats 3SC
\ …Edo Gov gives team N25m, says Club’s triumph is promise kept After dropping from the Nigerian elite soccer league, for over a decade, Bendel Insurance Football Club, on Monday in Benin City, made a historic return to the Premier League with a 2-1 defeat of 3 SC Football Club, ...
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Global banks HSBC, UBS close Nigeria offices, foreign investment falls
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Anxiety As Nigerians Await Outcome Of NHIS Probe
\ The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), a Scheme that has the tendency to enable Nigeria make progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) recently experienced what can better be described as pandemonium . PATIENCE IVIE IHEJIRIKA and ODIRI UCHENUNU-IBEH writes that Nigerians are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the ...
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Nigeria Donates $500,000 To Support Guinea Bissau Election
\ The Nigerian government has approved the donation of $500,000, over 350 electoral kits and seven vehicles, to facilitate a successful conduct of Guinea Bissau legislative election, slated for November 18, 2018. The Nigerian, Minister of Foreign Affairs , Geoffrey Onyeama, announced this when Special Representative of the UN Secretary ...
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HSBC, UBS banks close Nigeria bureaus
HSBC and UBS have closed their offices in Nigeria, the country's central bank said in a report on Friday as it revealed foreign investment had fallen.
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CBN Pumps $337.16m, 56.17m CNY Into Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales
\ The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday said it injected 337.16 million dollars in the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) in its first intervention in the inter-bank foreign market for November. A statement issued in Abuja by Isaac Okorafor, the bank’s Director of Corporate Communications, noted that the ...
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Seguradores: “Ainda há passos importantes a dar nas empresas em Portugal”, revela Zurich Portugal
Há novos e emergentes riscos para os seguradores. O cyber insurance é um deles e apenas as empresas de maior dimensão ou com o maior desenvolvimento tecnológico estão sensíveis para as estas matérias. O testemunho de José Coutinho, Chief Underwriting Officer da Zurich Portugal.
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eNigeria 2018 Confab Will Accelerate Access To Digital Products — NITDA
\ As Nigeria strives to increase its digital presence in the global economy, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says the 2018 eNigeria conference will accelerate access to digital products. NITDA made this known in a statement issued by Mrs Hadiza Umar, the Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations of ...
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FG Summons Ghanaian Envoy Over Failure To Reopen Nigerian Businesses
\ The ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the High Commissioner of Ghana to Nigeria, Ambassador Rashid Bawa, over the continue closure of over 400 Nigerian shops in Ghana. Foreign Affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Friday, said the Ghanaian envoy was invited to give a definitive explanation on the treatment ...
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Nigeria:CBN - Foreign Investment Falls By U.S.$500 Million in 2018 Q1
[This Day] Global banking giants, HSBC Bank and UBS Group, have closed their offices in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said yesterday, while also noting that foreign investment had fallen sharply from a year ago.
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FAO Calls For Inclusion Of Nutrition Analysis In Master’s Degree Curriculum
\ The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has called for partnership with the Federal Government and some universities on the inclusion of food and nutrition security analysis in Master’s Degree curriculum. The Country Representative of FAO, Mr Suffyan Koroma, made the call in Abuja on Friday ...
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Organised Labour Insists On Nov. 6 Strike
\ The organised labour on Friday said that there was no going back on the Nov. 6 proposed strike over non-implementation of N30,000 minimum wage. The three labour centres – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress of Nigeria ( TUC) and the United Labour Congress ( ULC) – confirmed ...
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Nigeria Supports Regional Common Tariff, Customs Union, Says FG
\ The Federal Government on Friday, assured Ministers of member countries of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS), on support for regional common tariff and customs union towards trade liberalisation, industrialisation and integration. This was stated in the welcome remarks by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, ...
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Nigeria:'Sustainability, Policy Predictability Key Concerns for Foreign Investors'
[Guardian] For key investments needed to spur the economy to become domiciled in the country, the Nigerian government would have to commit to its policies and sustainably implement them in line with its development goals.
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Strike Or Sabotage – Why The Air Peace Selective Target?
\ In yet another distraction from the on-going arduous task of reviving the nation’s ailing economy, a possible source of hope from the aviation sector has yet fallen victim of “Union’s” anger against the public, destroying a private person’s effort to help others and possibly add to the few emerging ...
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Making China Nigeria’s Investment Partner In Mining
\ Recently, the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Abubakar Bawa Bwari led a Nigerian delegation to the 20th China Mining Congress And Expo, and the 3rd Nigeria-China Mining Road Show. The events provided the opportunities for Nigeria to present to potential investors in that far eastern country ...
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EstoreSMS.com Upgrades Platform For Bills Payment, Political Parties
\ eStoreSMS.com, a leading provider of bulkSMS and mobile marketing solutions in Nigeria has upgraded its platform to provide unique mobile marketing solutions for political parties to reach their target electorates during this election year. The company spokesperson and manager, Tope Olarewaju, noted that SMS marketing outperforms other channels like ...
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Omogo To Oversee NHIS – Minister
\ Mr Ben Omogo, a Director from the Federal Ministry of Health, has been appointed to oversee the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this on Thursday during an investigative hearing organised by the House Ad hoc Committee on the lingering crisis facing ...
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Alleged Fraud: Suspended NHIS Boss Drags Ministers, NHIS To Court
\ Prof. Usman Yusuf, the embattled Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has dragged two ministers and NHIS to a Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging his suspension from office. In the suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1220/2018, Yusuf instituted legal action against the Honourable Minister of Health, and Attorney General of ...