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Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Chinese Students Embrace Degrees In Hausa
Diplomatic ties between Nigeria and China dates back 46 years, however citizens of both countries barely know enough about each other culturally. In these changing times some Chinese students at Beijing Foreign Studies University take up Hausa language as a major. BUKOLA OGUNSINA writes. There was festivity in the air ...
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FMDQ records N130.17t turnover in 11 months
FMDQ OTC Securities Ex change recorded a turnover of N130.17 trillion in the first 11 months of 2017, according to provisional data provided by the over-the-counter platform for debt securities. The turnover included all products traded on the FMDQ secondary market including foreign exchange, treasury bills, sovereign bonds, other bonds ...
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Workers resume in Anambra after holidays
Federal and state offices in Awka, Anambra, opened for business on Tuesday after the Yuletide and New Year holidays. Some of the workers ( in Anambra) told newsmen that they were thankful to God for making them to come this far. Others said they were hopeful that government would listen ...
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Work resumes in Osun as Labour Unions suspend strike
Workers in Osun on Tuesday returned to work after the Joint Labour Unions in the state called off the indefinite strike embarked on last week Wednesday. The leadership of the labour unions in the state had called for indefinite strike, which commenced on December 27 to demand for outstanding salaries ...
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Anxiety As LADOL Keeps Mum Over NPA Bans On $3.8bn Egina FPSO
There is palpable tension at the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) over the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) ban Engina FPSO due to arrive in January to access the Nigerian waterways or berth at LADOL jetty. LADOL who is local content partner of the Egina FPSO are doing everything possible ...
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Trade Unions Hail Lagos Over Workers Welfare
Trade Union leaders in Lagos State have lauded the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode for improved welfare of the state workers. Chairman, Lagos State Public Service Joint Negotiating Council (NJC), Comrade Obafemi Oyenubi who spoke on behalf of Trade Union leaders at the Retreat organised by the State Ministry of Establishments, ...
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We Have Restored Rivers’ Economy – Wike
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that his administration has been able to restore the economy of the state in spite of the challenges that came with the past year, 2017. Wike, who made the declaration yesterday in his New Year message to the people of the state, said ...
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Video: President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2018 New Year address
Our problem ‘more of process than restructuring’ Ogoni clean-up on Rice import to stop Boko Haram beaten Power hits 7000mw The government will fish out the blackmailers behind the crippling fuel scarcity, President Muhammadu Buhari promised this morning. In his New Year address to the nation, the President regretted the ...
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Fuel crisis blackmailers ’ll be punished, says Buhari
Our problem ‘more of process than restructuring’ Ogoni clean-up on Rice import to stop Boko Haram beaten Power hits 7000mw The government will fish out the blackmailers behind the crippling fuel scarcity, President Muhammadu Buhari promised this morning. In his New Year address to the nation, the President regretted the ...
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Board Appointments: APC, Former Guber Aspirant Commend PMB Over Nguroje
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Vanguard, north east zone chapter has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing former deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, honourable Babangida Nguroje as chairman of the governing board of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) as well as all other appointees from the north ...
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Have Confidence In Buhari’ s Govt, Ajimobi Tells Nigerians
Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has urged Nigerians to keep hope alive in the New Year on the ability of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to revamp the economy. The governor while congratulating Nigerians on the occasion of the New Year in a New Year message issued by his ...
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Women Need Society’s Support To Excel
Women have been urged to seek for knowledge as part of efforts to support their immediate family and most especially to contribute to the economic development and growth of the Nigeria economy. This was the message at the 23rd National Al Mu’minaat Training Forum (ATF) organised by Al-Mu’minaat (The Believing ...
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Fed Govt’s renewable energy projects: An overview
President Muhammadu Buhari told the National Assembly that the Federal Government would launch the first African Sovereign Green Bond in December 2017 to finance renewable energy projects. The President, while presenting the 2018 Budget proposal, said: “I am pleased to inform this distinguished assembly that the Federal Government will be ...
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AFAN wants direct sales of fertilizer to farmers
All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Edo has appealed to Gov. Godwin Obaseki to ensure fertilizer from the state owned fertilizer plant are sold directly to farmers in the state. The Edo North coordinator of AFAN, AlhAji Abdullahi Oshiobugie, made this appeal in an interview with the News Agency ...
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10 MODULAR REFINERIES CLOSE TO TAKE-OFF – PRESIDENCY
• Says Ogoni clean-up recording progress The promotion and establishment of privately financed modular refineries in the country remain a priority of the federal government, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday. The objective is to increase local refining capacity, create jobs and ensure peace and stability in the Niger Delta ...
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Obaseki signs Edo’s N150bn 2018 Budget into Law
…As Agric estimate rises by 100% The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has signed the state’s 2018 appropriation bill as passed by the Edo State House of Assembly, into law. At the signing ceremony in Government House, Benin City, on Friday, Obaseki said the speedy passage of the ...
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ICYMI: New soldiers stab policeman in Ekiti
A group of soldiers of Ekiti State origin who had just completed their recruitment training went on rampage in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday and attacked some policemen on duty. A police Corporal, Abdulkadir Yakub, who was allegedly stabbed with jack-knife, is now on danger list at the Police Clinic, Okesa, where ...
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Gunshot Victims To Receive Immediate Care As PMB Signs Bill Into Law
Succor has come the way of gunshots victims as President Mohammadu Buhari has signed into law compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 which provides for the compulsory treatment and care for victims of gunshots and for related matters. In a statement by the senior special assistant ...
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DPR Dispenses 57,000 Litres Free To Motorists
By FESTUS OKOROMADU, Abuja A team of officials from Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and security agencies on Thursday dispensed 57,000 litres of petrol free to motorists in Abuja. Mr Umar Ajiya, the managing director, Nigerian Product Marketing Company, NPMC, also known as PPMC, had ...
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Lagos vai amortizar antecipadamente dívida do Programa de Apoio à Economia Local
O município de Lagos anunciou hoje que vai amortizar antecipadamente o valor em dívida referente ao Programa de Apoio à Economia Local (PAEL), de 2,3 milhões de euros, até ao final do ano.
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Fim da recessão, queda de juros e da inflação marcaram a economia em 2017
Em um ano marcado pelo fim da recessão, a economia brasileira ainda registrou reflexos da crise, com sucessivos cortes de gastos, interrupção de serviços públicos por falta de recursos, aumento de tributos e situação crítica nas contas públicas de alguns estados. Com o início da retomada a partir do segundo ...