Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Love-struck nigerians outdo one another with creative marriage proposals
Morenike Ayodeji almost ran for cover when she heard screams behind her at a section of the packed mall that afternoon. A busy company secretary, who works with a stock broking firm at Marina, in the heart of Lagos’ central business district, Saturdays are the only days she has to ...
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N30tn revenue loss: Senate gives Dana, 12 other firms Monday ultimatum
The Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff and Marine Transport has directed the Dana Group and 12 other companies, allegedly involved in N30tn revenue scam, to appear before it or face the full wrath of the law on Monday, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. The Chairman ...
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30tn revenue loss: Senate gives Dana, 12 other firms Monday to appear or face sanction
The Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff and Marine Transport yesterday gave Dana Group and 12 other companies allegedly involved in N30 trillion revenue scam up till Monday to appear before it or face the full wrath of the law. In a statement issued in Abuja, the Chairman ...
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Osinbajo directs heads of PenCom,ICPC, others to resume ahead of Senate’s confirmation
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has directed the newly appointed chairmen of the National Pension Commission, Code of Conduct Bureau, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission to resume duty. Mr Bolaji Adebiyi, Permanent Secretary and Director Press Office of the Secretary to the Government of the ...
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Record violence targeting aid workers and civilians in West and Central Africa
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, WorldSo far, in 2017, crises across the region have recorded more than half of all violent incidents against aid workers in the world. UN agencies and NGO ...
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Nigeria produces less than 3% of potential honey output
An official of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says the country cannot export honey because it produces less than three per cent of its current needs. A Director in the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services of the ministry, Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, made the statement in Abuja on Friday on ...
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Nigeria to start bee export by 2018
Nigeria will start exporting bees to other countries next year, the National President, Federation of Bee keepers Association of Nigeria, Dr Bidemi Ojeleye, has said. Ojeleye on Friday said that a European Union team had visited Nigeria for training and guidelines on the residue monitoring plans for bee export. Ojeleye, who ...
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FG sets up N15bn fund for Niger Delta
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Federal Government has set up N15bn industrial reactivation fund in the Niger Delta partnership with the private sector. The Minister of Niger Delta, Pastor Usani Uguru, disclosed this on Thursday in a statement by the ministry’s Director of Press, Marshal Gundu. Uguru reportedly spoke in Imo ...
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When sense goes sour
PERSPECTIVE Reading a recent attack on the person of Dr Dakuku Adol Peterside, Director-General, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, by Governor Nyesom Wike, through a proxy, Simeon Nwakudu, I felt obliged to render a voluntary duty, to state the facts in a simple, unambiguous manner, and next, leave ...
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UNICEF, EU battle water-borne diseases in Bayelsa
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is worried about water-borne diseases in the country especially in the Niger Delta region. The UN interventionist agency is particularly concerned that lack of access to potable water has led to deaths among infants. UNICEF in partnership with the European Union (EU) is deploying ...
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Between Nigeria’s Ailing Economy And War Of Attrition
It was a war of attrition during the week as former President Goodluck Jonathan and the presidency engaged in heated verbal exchange over who did what in forging the piteous fate of the country’s ailing economy. In this report, JONATHAN NDA- ISAIAH examines the issues raised. Former President Goodluck Jonathan ...
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New Benin Transit Vehicles’ Tariff Threatens Nigeria’s Auto Investments
By YUSUF BABALOLA, The federal government tends to lose more revenue and investment over the recent slash of charges on transit vehicles following the decision of the government of Benin Republic last month to approve the reduction by 27 per cent. While the development has already set in tension ...
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Kebbi plans rice, livestock export
Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi says the state is planning to produce rice and livestock in commercial quantities for export to earn foreign exchange. Bagudu said this in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday when he received a team of agricultural experts from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan. He said ...
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$12bn Software Market: VoguePay, Varsities Move Entrench Local Content
By CHIMA AKWAJA, VoguePay Nigeria, a leading online payment gateway has declared it willingness to help Nigerian undergraduates in Nigerian universities develop local content applications that would support the $12 billion Nigeria software market currently dominated by foreign software vendors. Michael Simeon, VoguePay’s chief executive officer, who disclosed at the ...
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Why public officials send children abroad –Senate panel chair
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Jibrin Barau, has dismissed the call by Nigerians that children of public officials should be restricted to the country’s public schools. The lawmaker said Nigeria needed to have socio-cultural exchanges with other countries. According to Barau, any law that ...
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FG to diversify economy with $41bn railway investment
Lekan Adetayo and Stanley Opara The Federal Government has started a $41bn railway expansion to reduce dependence on oil and diversify the economy, the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said. “The plan we have now will go to every nook and corner,” Amaechi said on Wednesday in an ...
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‘High duty taking medicine away from reach of poor’
Eric Dumo The high cost of duty paid on imported pharmaceutical products has been identified as a major factor making access to basic medicines difficult for Nigerians. Speaking during a visit by members of the Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria to the office of World Wide Commercial ...
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Sounding the death knell (1)
It has become fashionable – and indeed a status symbol – to post pictures of Nigerians graduating from foreign universities. A close look at the surnames of the graduates says one thing: they’re mainly the children of the elites. Even in the posting of such pictures, attention are often paid ...
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Tears, tributes for hotel fire victim
Atmosphere of sorrow enveloped the Department of Mass Communication of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Monday, as students, lecturers and non-academic staff held candlelight procession for a 200-Level student, Roli Odogwu, who died in a hotel fire, last week. The late Roli and her friend, Linda Elegeonye, a 300-Level ...
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"Nunca descansaremos hasta que se derogue ley canalera"
José Pérez Flores llegó procedente de la comarca El Limón a La Fonseca, Nueva Guinea, a las 9:50 de la[...]
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Trump sacks Nigeria’s Ogunlesi as adviser
Nigerian born international CEO, Adebayo Ogunlesi has now ceased to be an adviser to embattled US President Donald Trump. Trump sacked him today along with other distinguished CEOs counselling him via two councils on how to “Make America Great Again”. Trump sacked Ogunlesi on Twitter, when he announced the dissolution ...