Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Telecoms Operators Seek Policy Flexibility In Favour Of CDMAs
LEADERSHIP The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) on Wednesday called for policy flexibility in favour of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators. The ALTON chairman, Mr Gbenga Adebayo, told journalists in Lagos that the federal government should give the operators access to capital and other incentives to survive. ...
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Customs Intercepts 15 Trucks Of Smuggled Rice In South West
LEADERSHIP The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 15 trucks load of 9,049 bags of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country from neighboring countries. Speaking yesterday, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Compt. Mohammed Uba said aside from rice that were intercepted mostly from ...
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Nigeria:Govt Rakes $70bn From It Investments
[Leadership] Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the Federal Goverment has generated up to $70 billion from Information Technology investments.
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Presidente do BC diz que oferta de swaps cambiais serão intensificadas
O presidente do Banco Central (BC), Ilan Goldfajn, voltou a defender hoje (11) o uso de swaps cambiais (venda futura de dólares), em coordenação com o Tesouro Nacional (TN), para dar liquidez ao mercado de juros. “Estamos usando swaps cambiais e podemos ir além dos valores máximos utilizados no passado ...
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Indústria pede ajustes para se recuperar de prejuízos da paralisação
Presidentes de duas entidades do setor industrial se reuniram hoje (11) com o presidente Michel Temer para apresentar demandas referentes às consequências da paralisação dos caminhoneiros, que durou 11 dias e encerrou há pouco mais de duas semanas. O presidente da Federação das Indústrias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Firjan), ...
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Número de inadimplentes passou de 63 milhões em maio, aponta SPC
O número de consumidores inadimplentes atingiu 63,29 milhões em maio, com crescimento de 2,78% em relação ao mesmo período do ano passado. Os dados do Serviço de Proteção ao Crédito (SPC Brasil) e da Confederação Nacional de Dirigentes Lojistas (CNDL) indicam a região Sudeste com o maior aumento no número ...
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Cleric Lauds LIPTON On Ramadan Outreach
LEADERSHIP Chief Imam of the Area One Central Mosque, Garki, Imam Rabiu Sheikh Suleiman, has commended Lipton, Nigeria’s leading tea brand, as they celebrate with Muslim faithfuls across the country during the holy month of Ramadan. Imam Sheikh made the remark at the Mosque activation in Abuja during the brand’s promotion ...
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Tesouro vai manter leilões extraordinários de títulos até fim de junho
O Tesouro Nacional anunciou que continuará fazendo, até o final de junho, leilões extraordinários de venda e recompra de títulos públicos. Ao longo da próxima semana, os leilões serão diários, mas depois o órgão avaliará se mantém ou reduz a frequência das operações. O anúncio foi feito pelo subsecretário da ...
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Minding The Gap: Embracing A Digital Culture Will Shape Nigeria’s Economy – Meflyn Anwana
LEADERSHIP The Special Assistant to the Akwa Ibom State Governor on New Media, Mrs Meflyn Anwana, has called on Akwa Ibom people to adopt a digital culture, so as to expedite the emergence of the digital economy envisioned by Governor Udom Emmanuel. Mrs Meflyn made the statement at her office in ...
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Nigeria:AfDB Claims $1.64 Billion Investments in Innovations, Stem
[Guardian] An initiative that is expected to put youths in Nigeria and other parts of Africa on a new pedestal of development, especially through job creations has been sealed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), with its partners- Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook.
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Who Needs “Not Too Young To Run” Law?
LEADERSHIP Who truly thinks that anything is going to change in the political space now that we have the “Not Too Young To Run Act”? I don’t think so because in Nigeria the more things change, the more they remain the same. While there is nothing wrong in having the new ...
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#NotTooYoungToRun: Nigerian Youth And Governance
LEADERSHIP History was made last week when President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law, the ‘Not-Too-Young-to-Run’ bill. KAUTHAR ANUMBA-KHALEEL gives an insight to the bill and the reactions that followed its passage to law. Since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, elective offices have been occupied by the same circle of people, ...
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FMI: el exministro de Economía José Luis Machinea explicó las diferencias entre este acuerdo y el megacanje
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Nigeria:Nigeria's Gas Sector Holds $51 Billion Investment Opportunity
[Guardian] About $51 billion worth of investment opportunities currently exists in Nigeria's gas sector.This investment could be spread to Free Trade Zones (FTZ), central gas processing facilities, fertilizer plants, gas exploration & production, pipe milling & local fabrication yards.Other available investment areas are virtual pipelines, gas transmission, and power plant ...
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21st Century, Schneider To Build Tier 4 Datacentre In Nigeria
LEADERSHIP Pioneer telecom company, 21st Century Technologies Limited has Technologies has entered into strategic partnership with Schneider Electric to launch the first ever Tier IV datacentre in Nigeria. The innovation being the first also in Africa is a major boost to the country’s technology profile which would further draw huge investment to the country. ...
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Siderurgia estima prejuízo de R$ 3,2 bilhões com tabela de frete
A indústria de siderurgia estima que a tabela de frete mínimo definida pelo governo federal como uma das medidas para pôr fim à greve dos caminhoneiros pode resultar em um prejuízo de R$3,2 bilhões ao setor, pois o tabelamento diminui as margens de negociação. As perdas apenas no período da ...
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Comercio mundialista: la relación con Nigeria
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NDLEA Seize 17, 932 Metric Tons Of Drugs, Nab 26 Suspects
LEADERSHIP The Chairman/Chief Executive, Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (rtd.) has said that the NDLEA, German Government Canine Project which started in 2010 has yielded 26 major arrests, leading to the seizure of 17, 932 metric tons of sundry drugs within the country. He said this ...
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Nigeria:How Repatriation By Foreign Investors Dipped External Reserve
[Daily Trust] Lagos -External reserve, which experienced continuous growth from $38.91 billion as at January 2, 2018, to $47.87 billion on May 10, 2018, began to decline, to $47.85 billion on May 11, 2018, and further dipped to $47.66bn on May 28, data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ...
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First Bank, WorldRemit To Boost Diaspora Remittances
LEADERSHIP First Bank Nigeria Limited has partnered international remittance company, WorldRemit to increase the level of diaspora remittance into the country. The partnership is expected to double the number of transactions by the digital money transfer company by the end of the year. Speaking at the launch of the partnership in ...
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Akwa Ibom FDI Next To Lagos – Gov. Udom
LEADERSHIP The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanual on Tuesday revealed that the Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) of his state is second to Lagos state among other states of the federation. The Governor stated this in Lagos during an interactive session with journalists, noted that his administration has succeeded in boosting ...