Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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NGOs call for independent international inquiry on Yemen
Source: Amnesty International, CIVICUS, World Organisation Against Torture, Society for Threatened Peoples, CARE, International Service for Human Rights, Saferworld, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, MADRE, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, PAX Country: YemenSixty-two organizations state that an inquiry should be given the mandate to establish the facts ...
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Report: Nigeria, South Africa likely out of recession
Nigeria’s economy is out of recession, a report said yesterday. The economy broke out of a long slump in the second quarter with a median forecast for 1.55 per cent year-on-year growth, the Reuters report said. The report also shows that South Africa quit shrinking with 2.2 per cent quarter-on-quarter ...
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My committee didn’t investigate Diezani in Senate – Makarfi
GODWIN ISENYO The Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said the Senate Committee on Finance headed by him did not investigate a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke in 2015. Makarfi told journalists in Kaduna that his panel was saddled with the responsibility ...
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Marital rape under Nigerian law
As human beings evolve and our societies change, our laws must keep up with the changes and define our interactions in the context of our new societies. There are many areas of our laws in Nigeria that have not kept up with the times. And there are areas of modern ...
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Floods forcing up demand for insurance cover
Insurance companies are already coughing out huge claims from recent floods that ravaged some high-brow areas of Lagos State, even as there has been an increase in the demand for cover from residents in Lekki and its environs, NIKE POPOOLA reports Excessive rains that wreaked havoc in recent weeks in ...
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Nigeria spends N5tn yearly on off-grid diesel generation — Report
Stanley Opara Aside from the massive recurrent national grid investments in Nigeria running into several billions of the United States dollar, the country is said to be spending N5tn ($14bn) on off-grid diesel generation yearly. Off-grid diesel generation refers to systems that have no connection with the national utility grid, ...
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Hurdles As South-east, South-south Governors Seek Integration
CHIBUZO UKAIBE and ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, X-ray the import of the recent meeting of governors from the South-south and South-east in Port Harcourt, Rivers State On Sunday, August 27, 2017, governors of the 11 states that make up the South-east and South-south geopolitical zones of the country, met in Port Harcourt, ...
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Nigerian Business Leaders Receive U.S. Congressional Delegation
By David Abakpa, Abuja Chairman of Oriental Energy Resources, Mohammed Indimi, President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Heir Holdings, Tony Elumelu, Stanel Group Chief Executive Officer, Stanley Uzochukwu, and other top Nigerian business leaders on Wednesday received an eight-member Congressional delegation from the United States at the U.S. ...
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Falana insists CJs free to release inmates
Tunde Ajaja Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, (SAN), has said he maintains his earlier position that the Chief Justice of Nigeria and chief judges are empowered by law to conduct prison visits and order the release of any prison inmate if satisfied that the detention of that person is ...
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U.S. delegation meets top Nigerian businessmen
President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote; Chairman of Heir Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu; Chairman, Stanel Group, Mr. Stanley Uzochukwu; Chairman of Oriental Energy Resources, Mohammed Indimi, and other top Nigerian business leaders, on Wednesday, received an eight-member Congressional delegation from the United States at the U.S. Consulate General’s resident ...
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Nigeria, UK In Joint Crackdown On Human Trafficking
BY Sunday Isuwa, Abuja The federal government and the United Kingdom (UK) have concluded plans to begin a crackdown on the barbaric crime of human trafficking in Nigeria. Accordingly, in a bid to ensure a world, free from this abhorrent trade, the British government has committed £7 million to tackle ...
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No communication yet on Ornis, or on enforcement during hunting season - BirdLife
Contrary to what was stated in a Government press release by the Ministry for the Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change on Tuesday to respond to BirdLife Malta’s earlier press conference, up till today BirdLife Malta has not yet received any form of communication from the Government on the Ornis ...
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FG seeks private sector investment from UK
The Federal Government on Thursday said it would work with government of the United Kingdom to stimulate more direct private sector investments into Nigeria. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma said this in Abuja during a meeting with a delegation from the British government led ...
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Kwara community protests five-month outage
Success Nwogu, Ilorin Scores of members of Checking Point community, near International Aviation College, Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday protested against a five-month power outage in the area. The protesters marched to the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, Otte Service Unit, Baboko Business Office, singing war songs and displaying placards. Some ...
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Benue workers begin strike Tuesday
John Charles, Makurdi The Benue State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress has declared a one-week warning strike. It will commence on Tuesday, September 5, 2018. In a communique issued at the end of the State Executive Council of both the NLC and the Trade Union Congress held at the ...
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Fitch affirms Nigeria at ‘B+’, negative outlook
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Nigeria’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating at ‘B+’ with a negative outlook. Reuters on Thursday reported that Nigeria’s ratings were supported by its large and diversified economy, significant oil reserves, its net external creditor position, low external debt service ratio and large domestic debt market. These ...
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NDIC boosts capacity building initiative
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation says 46 members of staff have graduated from the Chartered Banker/Master in Business Administration Programme at Bangor University, Scotland The graduates have also earned themselves triple qualifications of MBA, Bangor University; Associate, Chartered Institute of Bankers, Scotland the oldest professional banking institute in the world ...
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UK defends £200m aid budget for Nigeria
Rasheed Bisiriyu and Ifeanyi Onuba The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development has defended its £200m ($258m) aid budget for Nigeria, even as the Federal Government pledged to work with the British government to stimulate and attract more direct private sector investments into the country. The UK Foreign Secretary, Boris ...
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American companies affected by CBN capital curbs — US senator
The United States companies are deterred from investing more in Nigeria by its capital controls, according to the head of a US Congressional delegation visiting Nigeria, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware. “Some of the currency controls that remain I think raise the question of whether foreign direct investment, if successful ...
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‘Off-grid solar ’ll transform businesses’
Mobile solar revolution will transform Nigeria’s small-business economy, Lumos Nigeria Chief Executive Officer Mr. Yuri Tsitrinbaum has said. He said access to power is a major constraint to the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and many are using the Lumos Mobile Electricity service, which provides customers with reliable, clean, affordable ...
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Minister: Nigeria’ll be self-sufficient in rice by end of 2017
Nigeria will be self-sufficient in rice production by the end of this year, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Chief Audu Ogbeh has said. Ogbeh, who gave the assurance at the First International Cocoa Summit, organised by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, in collaboration with Cocoa Farmers Association ...