Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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FAAC: Kwara Govt. Records N400m Reduction For October
The Kwara Government has received N3.4 billion as allocation from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), for the month of October as against N3.8 billion received in September. The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu disclosed this in a statement released in Ilorin on Friday. The News Agency of ...
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Cai número de ações em SP por atraso no pagamento a condomínios
O número de ações judiciais de cobrança por atrasos no pagamento de condomínios, na cidade de São Paulo, teve uma expressiva queda em setembro, alcançando 32% em relação agosto último, segundo pesquisa do Sindicato da Habitação (Secovi) com base nos registros feitos no Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São ...
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Temporada de cruzeiros marítimos injetará mais de R$ 2 bi na economia
A temporada 2018/2019 de cruzeiros marítimos terá impacto na economia brasileira acima de R$ 2 bilhões, considerando 15% de aumento no total de viajantes embarcados, em relação à temporada anterior de 2017/2018, disse hoje (25) à Agência Brasil o presidente da Associação Brasileira de Cruzeiros Marítimos (Clia Brasil), Marco Ferraz. ...
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NLC Intervenes In NHIS Crisis
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has intervened in the crisis rocking the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by calling on its Executive Secretary Prof. Usman Yusuf, to vacate office and allow a full-scale investigation be conducted into the allegations levied against him. Mr Abubakar Shanabo, a representative of the NLC ...
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Restriction On 41 Items Helped Nigeria Move Out Of Recession – Emefiele
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has said the removal of 41 items from the eligible list for foreign exchange was a major factor that helped the country exit recession which it officially entered into in 2016. Emefiele, speaking at the opening ceremony of a seminar ...
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Africa:Foreign Investment Key to Prosperity - U.S. Diplomat Nagy
[allAfrica] The American administration's top diplomat for African affairs, Assistant Secretary of State Tibor P Nagy, Jr, will soon make his first trip to the continent since his appointment. Between November 1 and 10, he will visit Lomé, Togo; Conakry, Guinea; Bamako, Mali; and Abuja, Nigeria. This week he held ...
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Trade Protection Good For Image Of Nigeria’s Economy – Emefiele
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, says the use of trade protection as a monetary policy tool is good for resolving negative perceptions about any country. Emefiele, represented by Mr Moses Tule, Director, Monetary Policy Department of CBN, said this in a keynote address at ...
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FUNAAB Partners LEADERSHIP To Boost Agricultural Sector
Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has entered into a partnership arrangement with LEADERSHIP Group in order boost its efforts aimed at improving the small and medium scale businesses through robust agricultural activities. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Tuesday when the Vice Chancellor of FUNAAB, Professor Felix Kolawole ...
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Ajaokuta Steel Host Community Rejects Planned Sale
A Kogi socio cultural group, Ebira People’s Association (EPA) has out rightly rejected the federal government’s planned sales of the 40 year-old steel company in Ajaokuta. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, the President of EPA, Dr Abdulrahmman Adeiza said, sales is not an option after 6.4 billion dollars has been ...
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Lagos Adopts Technology To Help Residents Access Health Scheme
Lagos State Government on Monday said it would adopt a technology based application that would ease resident’s access to the proposed mandatory Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS) to be unveiled in the state soon. The LSHS is a state-wide health insurance initiative targeted to ensure that all residents of the ...
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Reviving Textile, Allied Industry For Economic Growth
Nigeria’s textile industry has been struggling for survival in the past two decades. This is evident in the reduction in the number of textile industries operating in the country from 200 in the 1980s to only 25 per cent at present. The textile sector was the mainstay of the Nigerian ...
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Empresários que somam 32% do PIB nacional apoiam Bolsonaro
Empresários das áreas química, automobilística, têxtil, de maquinário, construção civil, aço e siderurgia prestaram apoio hoje (22) ao candidato do PSL à Presidência da República, Jair Bolsonaro. O grupo de dez empresários liderado pelo deputado federal Onix Lorenzoni (DEM-RS), apontado como possível futuro ministro da Casa Civil, assinou um manifesto em favor do presidenciável. “Os ...
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Lagos Adopts Technology To Aid Residents Access To Health Scheme
Lagos State Government on Monday said it would adopt a technology based application that would ease resident’s access to the proposed mandatory Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS) to be unveiled in the state soon. The LSHS is a state-wide health insurance initiative targeted to ensure that all residents of the ...
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Customs Seizes 2 Containers Of Rice On Lagos Road
The national coordinator of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) strike force team, Abdullahi Kirawa, over the weekend disclosed that the Service intercepted two container loads of foreign parboiled rice imported through the Lagos port but disguised as raw material. This was even as he said rice importation through the nation’s ...
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FG Condemns Killing Of Another Nigerian In Kenya
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora,Mrs Abike Dabiri-Eriwa, has demanded for full autopsy and investigation from Kenya Government into the killing of a Nigerian, Mr Bamiyo Ashade, allegedly killed by the Kenyan police. Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement by her media aide, Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Sunday ...
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Verification: FG Allays Fear Of Omitted, Missing Names of NAL Ex-workers
…says payment of verified pensioners begins this week The federal government has noted the concerns and fears raised on omitted and missing names in the ongoing verification exercise of the liquidated Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) former workers and has created a help desk to attend to them. The Minister of ...
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Nigeria, Botswana Deepen Cultural, Diplomatic Ties
Nigeria and Botswana have signed agreements on cultural cooperation and diplomatic relations. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs , Geoffrey Onyeama after the 4th session of Nigeria-Botswana Joint Permanent Commission for Cooperation (BNJPCC). The minister explained that “The signing of the agreements on the JPCC signals our ...
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Gunmen Kidnap Traditional Ruler, Wife In Kaduna
Gunmen on Friday kidnapped Mr Maiwada Galadima, the Paramount Chief of Adara Chiefdom in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State and his wife along Kaduna/Kachia road. Mr Ibrahim Yakubu, a son in-law to the Chief, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), adding that the Police orderly ...
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Visionscape Re-affirms Commitment To Innovative Solutions In Waste Mgt
Visionscape Sanitation Solutions has said that the company remains resolute in its quest to provide innovative solutions across the waste management sector to bridge environmental infrastructure gaps in Lagos state and across emerging markets. This is even as the company reiterated its commitment to doing business responsibly, within a circular ...
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Gunmen Kidnap Traditional Ruler, Wife In Kaduna
Gunmen on yesterday kidnapped Mr Maiwada Galadima, the Paramount Chief of Adara Chiefdom in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State and his wife along Kaduna/Kachia road. Mr Ibrahim Yakubu, a son in-law to the Chief, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), adding that the Police orderly ...
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NOGASA: Redefining Petroleum Products Marketing In Nigeria
In what can best be described as an act of putting its house in order, key players in the downstream sector of the nation’s petroleum industry emerged last week under the aegis of Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA). FESTUS OKOROMADU writes on the potentials of the ...