Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Family planning saves lives and promotes resilience in humanitarian contexts
Source: CARE, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, Women's Refugee Commission Country: Afghanistan, Australia, Burundi, Canada, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Germany, Honduras, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States of America, World, YemenThe ...
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Nigeria: Elumelu - All Arms of Govt Must Collaborate to Make Nigeria Investment Destination
[This Day] Chairman of Heirs Holding, Tony Elumelu, has said that the federal government's Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria initiative can only work when the three arms of government, the executive, the judiciary and legislature, work together to put up right business policies that will prepare Nigeria as investment ...
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Nigeria: EU, Nigeria to Facilitate Trade, Investment
[Guardian] Abuja -Nigerian Government Monday, deliberated with the European Union (EU) delegation on ways to facilitate trade and investment in Nigeria.The agreement was reached at the meeting between the Ambassador and Head of EU delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michell Arion, and the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama.
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Nigeria: 'Nigeria Not EU Export Designation but Investment Hub'
[Daily Trust] Nigeria is not export designation for the European products but investment hub for EU businessmen, the Ambassador and Head of delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michel Arrion, has said.
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Nigeria: Dicle - This Is the Best Time to Invest in Nigeria
[This Day] Despite the recession, the Managing Director of Phillips Morris, Nigeria, Mr. CoskunDicle, has seen the opportunities in the country and is urging foreign investors to come to Nigeria and invest. He spoke with select journalists. Jonathan Eze presents the excerpts:
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Nigerian dance groups qualify for K-Pop World Festival in Korea
The Ambassador of the Republic of South Korea to Nigeria, Mr Nor Kyu-duk, says that Nigerian dance groups, K-Night Africa and Fragiles Dance Crew have qualified for the preliminary of that country’s World Dance Festival in Korea. K-POP World Festival is an annual event organised by South Korea’s Ministry of ...
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Mikano, Lagos provide corner shops for street traders
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe Mikano International Limited and the Lagos State Government on Monday inaugurated some corner shops for street traders on the Lagos Island. According to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business District, Mr. Agboola Dabiri, the government provided the shops to eradicate street trading. Dabiri noted that ...
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Trade hits $3.8bn at I&E window, CBN sells $142m
Oyetunji Abioye The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Investors and Exporters Foreign Exchange window has traded about $3.83bn since it was established on April 24, it has been learnt. Foreign exchange traders said this on Monday as the naira traded more strongly on the window than on the black market, Reuters ...
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FG moves to insure national assets
Nike Popoola and Ifeanyi Onuba The Federal Government has said that it will ensure adequate insurance of its assets. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said this during the National Insurance Conference of the Insurance Industry Consultative Council with the theme: ‘Nigeria open for business’, in Abuja on Monday. ...
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Nigeria can reap from demography with right investments in human capital – British envoy
British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Harriet Thompson, says Nigeria can reap from its demography with the right investments in human, physical capital and family planning, Thompson made this known at an event to mark the the World Population Day which held at the British High Commission in Abuja on ...
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Mines and Steel ministry eyes N9.7tn contribution to GDP
The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development says it will contribute $27bn about (N9.7tn) to the Gross Domestic Product by 2025. The ministry stated this in its Road Map in Abuja on Sunday, adding that the contribution would be achieved in three phases. It said that the phase one was ...
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W’Bank raises concerns over Nigeria’s debt servicing costs
‘Femi Asu The World Bank has expressed concerns about Nigeria’s rising debt servicing costs in relations to the government’s dwindling revenue. It stated this in its newly released Global Economic Prospects report, where it also observed that the country’s economic recovery was being limited by foreign exchange controls. Noting that ...
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IBB frustrated dad’s plan to study law at UNILAG — Ore Falomo’s daughter
Opeyemi is a daughter of Dr. Ore Falomo, the personal physician to the late June 12 hero, Chief MKO Abiola. She talks about her father’s life and career with TOLUWANI ENIOLA Tell us briefly about yourself. I studied Law at the Lagos State University and graduated from the Nigerian Law ...
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Goodluck Jonathan’s son-in-law shot in Calabar
•Police say it’s ‘3rd or 4th’ attempt on his life A son-in-law of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Prince Goodwill Edward, is now lying critically ill in a hospital in Calabar, after he was shot by unknown gunmen in his residence in the Cross Rivers State capital on Friday. Edward is ...
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One Year Of Maikanti Baru As NNPC GMD
By Bisi Daniels Many people have danced to the imposing Twin Towers in the Central Business District of Abuja in celebration of their appointment as helmsmen of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Why not? It is an exalted, career-peak position many people will lobby or die for, but it ...
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Yam Export May Affect Nigeria’s Food Security, Experts Warn
BY OLAJIDE FABAMISE, Lagos Experts in Nigeria’s agricultural sector have expressed fears about the nation’s new export policy of yams to the United Kingdom and the United States, saying it could be a minus to the nation’s food security. Speaking with LEADERSHIP Sunday, the national president, Sorghum and Millet Farmers ...
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I thank God for Nigerians’ resilience – Onyeama
Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geofery Onyeama, has reaffirmed Federal Government’s determination to lift Nigeria’s masses from the poverty level the president administration met them on assumption of office in 2015. Onyeama gave the assurance on Saturday shortly after inaugurating an Ecological Fund project at Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu in ...
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FG summons Cameroonian ambassador over killing of Nigerians in Bakassi
The Foreign Affairs Ministry has summoned Cameroon’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. Abbas Salahedine, to give explanations on the report of maltreatment and killings of Nigerians in the Bakassi Peninsula by Cameroonian Gendarmes. A statement by the Ministry’s Acting Spokesperson, Mrs. Jane Adams, expressed dismay on the incident said to ...
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FG, entertainment experts to discuss financing Nollywood at summit
Entertainment experts and officials from the federal ministry of information, culture and tourism will meet to discuss ways of ensuring access to long and short-term finance by the movie industry. The creative summit, which has been scheduled to hold on July 17 and 18, will take place at the EKO ...
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Ondo NDLEA impounds 24,596 kilogrammes of Indian hemp
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ondo state have seized 24,596 kilogrammes of Indian hemp, otherwise known as cannabis sativa in the state. The state commander of the agency, Mohammad Sokoto made the disclosure while briefing reporters on the achievements of the command in the last ...
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Dismissed soldier steals friend’s car
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan A dismissed soldier, Obadiah Ayuba, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for stealing his friend’s car in Ibadan. Ayuba was dismissed by the Nigerian Army after a series of unprofessional actions, including robbery and absconding from duty. The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun ...