Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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I got N500,000 to smuggle drugs through border – Ex-Customs official
Kunle Falayi An ex-customs official, Ngwoke Emmanuel, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for smuggling cannabis through the Seme border to Lagos Island. He told officials after his arrest that he was paid half a million naira to smuggle the drugs disguised as used clothes. The ...
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Oil, gas era gone, says Ogbeh
The Federal Government has explained that with its agricultural export programme, the era of oil and gas is gone. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogeh, who stated this in an interview with journalists on Thursday night in Abuja, said Nigeria needed dollars from agricultural exports to ...
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Agip restates commitment to diversification of Nigerian economy
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Multinational oil giant, Nigerian Agip Oil Ccompany, has said that encouraging small and medium business owners through annual leadership workshops is one of its important programmes in supporting the country’s economy. The Vice Chairman /Managing Director, Agip in Nigeria, Mr. Massimo Insulla, who spoke during a two-day ...
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Lagos to review tenancy law
Gbenro Adeoye The Lagos State Law Reform Commission has said that it has identified the need to review certain provisions of the existing Lagos State Tenancy Law of 2011 with a view to make it reflect current realities. Speaking at the stakeholders’ meeting on Tenancy Law of Lagos State, organised ...
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FG suspends NHIS boss for buying N58m SUV
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Friday announced the suspension of the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, for three months. Findings by our correspondent revealed that one of the allegations against Yusuf was that he ...
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Dogara backs OGFZA bill
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has thrown his weight behind efforts by the National Assembly (NASS) to amend the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) Act of 1996. In his opening remarks on Thursday in Abuja to the public hearing on the bill to amend ...
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CBN injects $254.3m into retail forex market
Players in the retail segment of the Nigerian inter-bank foreign exchange market received a $254.3 million boost from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday. The release of the said sum followed bids received by the apex bank from forex dealers. Information obtained from the CBN indicates that the deals ...
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Naira Suffers Marginal Loss Against Dollar Despite CBN’s Intervention
The Naira on Friday suffered marginal loss against the dollar at the parallel market in spite of CBN’s intervention at the foreign exchange market. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Naira lost one point to exchange at N366, weaker than N365 traded on Thursday, while the pound ...
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Climate change-poverty-migration: The new, inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Source: Inter Press Service Country: WorldRural areas of developing countries, where often poor households have limited capacity to cope with and manage risks, are forecast to bear the brunt of higher average temperatures.By Baher Kamal ROME, Jul 7 2017 (IPS) World organisations, experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change ...
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N-Power: FG trains 774 agric extension workers
Everest Amaefule, Abuja The Federal Government has completed the training of 774 extension workers in the use of modern technologies in delivering extension services in the agricultural sector of the economy under its N-Power programme. The Director-General, National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services, Prof. Mohammed Othman, stated in a ...
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Jonathan’s wife petitions Reps, alleges harassment by EFCC, NDLEA
John Ameh, Abuja Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, has petitioned the House of Representatives, seeking protection against alleged “relentless” harassment by agents of the Federal Government, particularly the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Mrs. Jonathan also listed the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency and the Federal Inland Revenue Service ...
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Conflict: Osinbajo orders security reinforcement in Yala, Cross River
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday ordered security agencies to take urgent steps to avert further breakdown of law and order in Yala Local Government of Cross River. The order followed violence between the Wanikade and Wanihem communities which led to loss of lives and property. A statement by the ...
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U.S. varsity, Delta govt partner on agriculture
The Michigan State University in the U. S. has expressed its determination to partner with the Delta Government in efforts to develop agriculture in the state. Some officials of the university’s Department of International Development expressed the commitment in Asaba when they visited Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. The leader of the ...
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Paris Club refunds: Bayelsa and imperative of Transparency Briefing
When the Federal Ministry of Finance introduced the publication of funds allocated to various tiers of government, it was designed to let the public know the resources available to government at all levels. The publication of funds allocated to states from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee was also meant to ...
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NPA Welcomes Senate’s Investigation Of Its JV Enterprises
BY OLUGBENGA SOYELE, Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman has welcomed the decision of the Nigerian Senate to look into the activities of the Joint Venture Enterprises of the NPA, namely, the Lagos Channel Management, the Bonny Channel Company, and the Calabar Channel Management Company ...
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New funding enables unprecedented collaboration in crisis-prone countries
Source: International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Somalia, WorldJoint multi-year funding from Canada will help FAO, IFAD and WFP to build resilience and tackle food insecurity in parts of Somalia, Niger and the ...
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Prison decongestion bill underway – Gbajabiamila
The leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos-APC), on Wednesday, said a Bill proposing community service as an alternative to prison term for miscellaneous offenders in the country was underway. Gbajabiamila said in Abuja that when presented and passed, the emerging law would check congestion prisons across ...
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Local govts should go for TSA, says SystemSpecs chief
The Treasury Single Account (TSA) should be introduced at all cadres of government including the local government, SystemSpecs Executive Director, Adedeji Olowe has said. Speaking at the 5th Annual Christopher Kolade Lecture on Business Integrity in Lagos, he said the TSA, has great benefits which should be spread across the ...
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‘Point And Kill’ Thriving In Abuja’s Poultry Markets
The fear of consuming strange packaged frozen foods in Abuja the nation’s capital has forced residents to resort to purchase of live birds popularly referred to as ‘point-and-kill’ which, in no small measure is booming poultry business in markets across the metropolitan city. SOLOMON AYADO reports Nazibi Ahmed operates a ...
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Johnson re-elected PENGASSAN president
Ife Ogunfuwa The President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Mr. Francis Johnson, has been re-elected for a second term of three years. A statement on Tuesday said that Johnson emerged the winner during the 5th Triennial Delegates’ Conference of the trade union after contesting against Mohammed ...
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HR Nigeria boss appointed to lead EY’s actuarial services
Nike Popoola EY Nigeria has appointed the Founder/Chief Executive Officer, HR Nigeria Limited, Rotimi Okpaise, as a partner in actuarial services. During the presentation, EY noted that HR Nigeria Limited was a leading actuarial consultancy in the country and across West Africa, and that Okpaise and his team of 16 ...