Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Plateau Govt Gazettes Gender Equal Opportunity Law
LEADERSHIP The Plateau State government has gazetted the Gender Equal Opportunity Law (GEO) passed since 2015 in the state, making it the first in Northern Nigeria. The law gazette on June 27 is to protect women from all forms of discrimination in politics, economy, traditions and social issues amongst others. Speaking ...
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Nigeria Seeks China’s Support In Governance, Anti-graft War
LEADERSHIP The federal government has disclosed that it will collaborate with the People’s Republic of China to digitise the process of governance and the fight against corruption in the country. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, at a seminar on China-Africa Cooperation in Information Technology and Digital Economy, ...
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Anac pode levar 5 anos para saber impacto da cobrança de bagagens
Técnicos da Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (Anac) declararam hoje (29) que podem demorar até cinco anos para avaliar o real impacto da cobrança de bagagem sobre o preço das passagens aéreas no Brasil. A autorização para que as empresas passassem a cobrar pelos itens despachados em voos domésticos foi aprovada pela Anac em ...
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Groups Urge Govt. To Hasten Passage Of Ube Act
LEADERSHIP Two non-governmental organisations, Connected Development (CODE) and Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), have condemned the delay in the passage of the Universal Basic Education Act by the House of Representatives. The call was made by the two organisations while forging a partnership in a bid to improve transparency and ...
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Nigeria:World Bank Approves Projects to Support Nigeria
[Premium Times] The World Bank on Wednesday approved seven projects to support Nigeria's investments in key sectors of the economy.
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World Bank Approves 7 Projects To Support Nigeria’s Access To Electricity
LEADERSHIP The World Bank yesterday approved seven projects to support Nigeria’s investment in nutrition, access to electricity, states’ fiscal transparency, polio eradication, women’s economic empowerment, public finance and national statistics and reducing vulnerability to soil erosion. “The federal government of Nigeria’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan identifies human capital investment, restoring ...
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Empresários negociam ampliar parceria com alemães sobre indústria 4.0
No 36º Encontro Econômico Brasil Alemanha (EEBA), em Colônia, na Alemanha, um grupo de empresários brasileiros apresentou proposta para ampliar o projeto-piloto de digitalização da indústria nacional e alemã. O projeto é resultado da parceria de 13 grandes empresas, seis brasileiras e sete alemães, em busca do salto de produtividade ...
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Nigeria:Why Nigeria Needs More International Investments - Diplomat
[Premium Times] Nigeria needs more international investments amidst a rising population, the European Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Ketil Karlsen, said on Monday.
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Monarch Calls for Amendment of Chiefs’ Law
LEADERSHIP The Oluwo of Iwoland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has appealed to government at all levels to consent a constitutional duty for kings across the nation. Oba Akanbi stated that the constitution of Nigeria recognizes all monarchs as chiefs and not kings. He called on the constituted ...
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National Water Bill Beneficial To Nigerians – FG
LEADERSHIP The federal government, yesterday, said the National Water Resources Bill will be beneficial to all Nigerians, whenever it is signed into law. The Minister of Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, said this on Tuesday at the National Consultative Conference on Water-Use Regulations, Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement Framework ...
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Retiradas do PIS/Pasep alcançam R$ 792,4 milhões na primeira semana
Na primeira semana do novo cronograma de saques de contas inativas dos programas de Integração Social (PIS) e de Formação do Patrimônio do Servidor Público (Pasep) foram sacados R$ 792,4 milhões, informou o Ministério do Planejamento, Desenvolvimento e Gestão. A pasta ressalta que a medida tem potencial para injetar R$ ...
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Clearing Agents Ground Business Activities At Lagos Airport
LEADERSHIP Activities at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos was yesterday afternoon grounded following the introduction of a new policy by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Lagos Airport Command. The new policy as introduced by the Customs Area Comptroller (CAC) stipulates that all consignments irrespective of the weight must be on ...
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Plateau Killings: Nigeria May Cease To Exist If… – Lamido
LEADERSHIP Former Jigawa State governor, Dr Sule Lamido, has predicted that Nigeria may be destroyed in 30 years if incidents similar to the recent killings in Plateau State continue unabated. This is as he stated that the investments of Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike in the educational sector are ...
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World Cup: Nigeria Set To Break Argentina Jinx
LEADERSHIP Nigeria’s Super Eagles will have to put in their best performance when they trade-tackle against Argentina in Saint Petersburg this evening to guarantee a second Round berth at the ongoing FIFA World Cup finals in Russia. La Albiceleste of Argentina have met the Super Eagles four times, all in World ...
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Nigeria:NNPC - $5bn JV Debt Repayment Restoring Investors' Confidence in Nigeria
[This Day] Abuja -The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said its repayment of the about $5 billion negotiated joint venture cash call debts owed to International Oil Companies (IOCs) over the years was now stirring the confidence of investors in Nigeria's upstream oil sector.
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NIMN Now Better Positioned To Attract Required Recognition – Agenmonmen
LEADERSHIP The President, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Mr. Tony Agenmonmen in this interview with , speaks on how the institute has fared under his watch, in the last one and a half years. It is well over one and a half years that you assumed office as the ...
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Yam Export: Group To Establish Quality Assurance, Control Lab To Facilitate Export
LEADERSHIP The Chairman, Technical Committee on Yam Export Programme, a private initiative, Prof. Simon Irtwang, on Monday said the Committee would establish Quality Assurance and Quality Control Laboratory for yam at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi. Irtwang said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in ...
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FG To Launch Voluntary Asset Repatriation Scheme
LEADERSHIP Nigeria is set to partner foreign consultants, comprising legal practitioners and other experts in Switzerland on a voluntary offshore asset repatriation scheme. This is coming barely one week to the expiration of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) which was extended to June 30 by President Muhammadu Buhari after the ...
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Nigeria’s Energy Crisis Hindering Economic Growth
LEADERSHIP Nigeria’s electricity crisis is presenting significant challenges to the economy such that key stakeholders in the sector have called for holistic review of the power sector reform. They said the partial privatization exercise has failed and a new model should be adopted, CHIKA IZUORA, reports. A recent review of the ...
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CBN, Investors, Exporters And FX Window
LEADERSHIP Investors and Exporters’ (I&E) Foreign Exchange (FX) window was established by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in April 2017 to boost liquidity in the FX market. It was also designed to ensure timely execution and settlement for eligible transactions. Industry watchers aver that the policy has lived up to ...
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I Love Putting Smiles On Faces – Hajiya Aisha
LEADERSHIP LIFE IN BRIEF Hajiya Aisha Datti Abubakar is a Kano-born business woman and philanthropist. She was born in Kaduna where her father was serving as military personnel. She later moved back to Kano where she was reared by grandparents. She is a business woman and also runs a charity organisation ...