Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Hoy por hoy
El alcalde de la ciudad capital, José Luis Fábrega, continúa burlándose de la justicia al hacer gala de su ya conocida soberbia. Ha ignorado olímpicamente el dictamen judicial que concedió un amparo de garantías constitucionales contra el acuerdo del Consejo Municipal de Panamá que autorizó la convocatoria de la licitación ...
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NAC Levy Slows Vehicle Importation Into Lagos Seaport – Clearing Agents
Clearing agents operating at the Tin-Can Island Port complex, on Monday, said the introduction of 15 percent National Automotive Council (NAC) levy by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has slowed down importation of foreign used vehicles, also known as, tokunbo into the country. Speaking to LEADERSHIP, a member of the ...
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OVH Energy Marketing, ACI Partner To Curb Malaria
OVH Energy Marketing has partnered with the African Clean-up Initiative (ACI), a non-profit advocacy organisation, to curb the spread of malaria at community level, through the Roll Back Malaria campaign. The campaign marked under the theme “Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives” empowered local communities ...
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Amaechi Meets Nasarawa Delegates, Promises To Revamp Agriculture
A few weeks to the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the immediate past minister of transportation and a top contender in the presidential race, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has promised to grow Nigeria’s economy by revamping the agricultural sector if he wins the primary and gets elected ...
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Nigeria Will Sustain Investments In Aviation Safety, Security – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said more investments will be deployed to the provision of infrastructure and facilities for safe, secure, environmentally friendly and sustainable civil aviation. The President Buhari stated this yesterday when he received the secretary general of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Mr Juan Carlos Salazar, at the ...
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Enugu Residents Decry Incessant Sit-at-home Order
Residents of Enugu have expressed dismay over the incessant sit-at-home orders imposed on them by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Some of the residents who spoke to our correspondent in an exclusive interview appealed to governors of the Southeast to provide adequate security to enable them open for ...
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Addressing Nigeria’s Dollar Rising Demand
From 85 kobo to a dollar in 1985, the value of the naira has diminished to N590 to a dollar as at last Friday. A situation that has been brought about by many factors, chief of among which are the Nigerians’ high dependence on imported products and the almost insatiable ...
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Lassa Fever: Nigeria, WHO Ratify Rat Control Processes
Nigerian Government in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) has begun processes to develop a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for rodent control and ending outbreak of Lassa fever in the country. This was the thrust at the opening of a three-day Stakeholders’ Review and Validation Workshop for Standard Operating ...
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Customs Uncovers Warehouse Of Foreign Used Tyres In Ogun
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs service (NCS), over the weekend, swooped on a massive stockpile of recently imported used tyres at a warehouse on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The foreign used tyres were massive in quantity and arranged in different batches that it would ...
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Domestic Warehouse To Curb High Rejection Of Non-oil Export – NEPC
The Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has stated that the introduction of its Domestic Export Warehouse (DEW) would address the high level of rejection of non-oil export faced at the global market. The executive director and chief executive officer, Ezra Yakusah, explained that, the initiative, when it finally comes on ...
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Regaining N130bn Transit Cargoes With Lekki Deep Seaport
Another major revenue earner at the nation’s seaports is transit cargoes. Nigeria generates huge revenue from cargoes meant for countries that are landlocked. The countries are Chad, Niger, Central Africa Republic (CAR), among others. However, Nigeria has continued to lose its cargo revenue and investments to neighbouring countries due to ...
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Gombe Governor Faces APC Screening Committee
Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, was upbeat yesterday when he appeared before the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship screening committee headed by Sen Abubakar Sodangi, saying the exercise was smooth sailing. Governor Inuwa who is standing unopposed in the APC governorship primary election in Gombe State arrived, Fraser Suites, ...
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Education Sector Crisis: A Future That Is Ruined
Nigeria is at a tipping point regarding security, human capacity development and economic growth. However, the biggest challenge we face as a country is not about the challenges of today but a bleak future stirring Africa’s biggest economy and the most populous Black nation in the face. Looking beyond the ...
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Nigeria: TotalEnergies Has Invested Almost U.S.$30 Billion in Nigeria Within Eight Years - Govt
[This Day] The federal government has disclosed that French oil major, TotalEnergies EP Nigeria Limited, has invested almost $30 billion in Nigeria's oil and gas sector within the space of eight years. It said the company had made a lot of investments in developing the country's oil resources since it ...
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Dollar Spending Limit: Foreign Exchange Crunch In Banks
Commercial banks in Nigeria early this year had further cut back on monthly international spending limits on Naira cards, in an effort to reduce their dollar obligations. The reduction means that customers can only spend a limited amount to make online purchases or payments via either international websites or point ...
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NDLEA Seizes Italy, UAE-bound Illicit Drugs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has foiled attempts by drug cartels to export Tramadol, Ecstasy MDMA and Cannabis to Milan, Italy and Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos. The agency also seized 203,879 tablets of various pharmaceutical opioids and ...
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Amaechi Inaugurates Five Governing Boards Of Parastatals
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has inaugurated the five Governing Boards of parastatals under the ministry. Amaechi, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said the board members would help restructure and reposition the agencies for a robust, transparent and accountable economy. While inaugurating the boards, he charged them ...
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Nigeria’s GDP Improves By 3.98% In Q4 2021— NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 3.98 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2021. This is according to the NBS Statistics Quarterly Report released in Abuja on Saturday. The report presents statistics on Nigeria’s GDP, foreign trade, capital importation, consumer prices ...
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Nigeria To Partner Switzerland On Digital Education
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Mrs Monilola Udoh has said that Nigeria is ready to partner with Switzerland in digital education through Science, Technology and Innovation. (STI) A statement issued by Atuora Obed Obiora, Deputy Director (Press &Public Relations) of the Ministry, noted that Mrs. Udoh ...
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Elijah Mohammed: Transformative Leadership In Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmacist Elijah Mohammed is the outgoing registrar/CEO of Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) and the founder of ADI Healthcare Initiative, a non-profit and non-political organisation set up with aim of closing the gap between knowledge and action as it pertains to the health of the populace. On assumption of duty ...
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Dangote Group Plans To Invest Heavily In Steel Sector
Dangote Group says it is making plans to invest in the steel sector of the economy “in a big way.” Group managing director, Dangote Group, disclosed this on Thursday during a panel discussion at the Infrastructure Solutions Summit organised by the African Finance Corporation (AFC) in Abuja. Alake said the ...