Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Birdlife Malta takes on management of Salini, restored site to be opened to the public
An agreement signed today will see Salini being transferred by the Government of Malta to BirdLife Malta who will now be responsible for the management of the site. The Heads of Agreement (HOA) was signed during a ceremony at Salini this morning. Currently BirdLife Malta already manages a number of ...
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CBN approves special forex sale for airlines, others
Okechukwu Nnodim and Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi The Central Bank of Nigeria has approved a special secondary market intervention retail sales of foreign exchange for airlines operating in the country. According to a statement from the aviation arm of the Federal Ministry of Transportation on Friday, the arrangement is dedicated to the ...
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Presidency’s justification of DSS raid on judges’ homes disappointing –Oyebode
Mudiaga Affe A renowned academic and professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, who is also the Chairman, Office of International Relations, Partnerships and Prospects, University of Lagos, in this interview with TUNDE AJAJA shares his thoughts on the recent happenings in the judiciary There have been divided opinions ...
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Customs impound N1.9bn goods in S’East, S’South zones
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone C, Owerri says it has recorded a total of 231 seizures of contraband goods with an Overall Duty Paid Value of N1.9bn in the third quarter of the year 2016. This is in contrast to the 379 seizures with a DPV of ...
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Nigeria may lose N69tr to climate change —FAO
Nigeria may lose the sum of N69 trillion to climate change leading to a reduction in the National GDP by 11percent in 2020 and 30 percent by 2050,the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has revealed. The Minister of State Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri ,who stated this yesterday ...
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CBN Approves Special Forex Intervention For Airlines
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved a Special Secondary Market Intervention Retail Sales (SMIS) for airlines operating in the country to enable them to access foreign exchange. Mr James Odaudu, Deputy Director, Press and Public Affairs, Ministry of Transportation, announced the plan in a statement in Abuja on ...
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Iran condemns clampdown on Shiites
Adelani Adepegba, Leke Baiyewu and Godwin Isenyo Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the attacks on Shiite Muslims attending religious mourning processions in Kano and Katsina states, stressing the Federal Government’s responsibility to ensure security for the people. The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, in a statement called for efforts to ...
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Vietnam ready to help Nigeria develop non-oil sector – Trade official
The Head of Trade Office of the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Dao Duc, on Friday expressed his government’s readiness to support Nigeria in the development of its non-oil sector. Dao, who made the disclosure at the Nigeria-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Stakeholders’ Forum in Lagos, ...
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Nigeria to float development bank –Buhari
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday disclosed that a new bank, Development Bank of Nigeria, would soon begin operations to strengthen the government’s economic diversification programme. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while addressing the German-Nigeria ...
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Nigeria’s $20bn import bill unsustainable – Aregbesola
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Friday said the nation’s $20bn food import bill was unsustainable. The governor, who spoke during an interactive meeting with farmers at Otan-Ayegbaju in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of the state, said Nigeria must be ready to take up the challenge of feeding its population. ...
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No exact figures for looted funds, says Malami
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), says the Federal Government has no exact figure of Nigeria’s looted funds abroad. Malami, who made this known at a Media Roundtable on Open Government Partnership in Abuja on Friday, said Nigeria would continues to liaise with other countries on the ...
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CBN approves special forex intervention for airlines
The Central Bank of Nigeria has approved a Special Secondary Market Intervention Retail Sales for airlines operating in the country to enable them to access foreign exchange. The Deputy Director, Press and Public Affairs, Ministry of Transportation, Mr. James Odaudu, announced the plan in a statement in Abuja on Friday. ...
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An emergency within an emergency - placing polio response in a broader response in Nigeria
Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, NigeriaIn the first instance, the emergencies team and polio team work together on a day-to-day basis as ‘one WHO’, citing collaboration as "the most effective way" to achieve polio-free Africa.The polio outbreak response in Nigeria and across the Lake Chad basin is ...
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Audit calls for reduction of MPs, MCAs
Kenyans are over-represented by exorbitantly paid lawmakers and should slash the number of elected leaders and reduce their allowances, an audit report on the Constitution says. The report presented to Parliament yesterday says Kenyans are spending far too much on their far too numerous MPs and MCAs in 47 counties. ...
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Corruption’ll drive away investors unless tackled –Jimoh Ibrahim
Billionaire businessman and politician, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, yesterday said no nation would do business with Nigeria with the current high level of corruption in the country. Barrister Ibrahim disclosed this while delivering a paper entitled: “Nigeria’s economy: The roles of worshippers in the temple of justice”, at an event organised ...
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Waarom het kabinetsvoorstel levenseinde niet ver genoeg gaat
Huib Drion bepleitte dat mensen zelf over de pil van Drion beschikken. In het voorstel van het kabinet is dat nog niet het geval, schrijven Petra de Jong, Hans van Dam en Jos van Wijk.
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Maafa renews the stage at National Theatre
Akeem Lasisi When the National Troupe of Nigeria invited theatre lovers to come and savour Maafa, an enactment of the agonies of the slave trade era, the Akin Adejuwon-led troupe offered them one of the best gifts that anyone could get during the Independence Day anniversary season. So engaging was ...
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First Bank gets approval to sell forex to BDCs
First Bank of Nigeria Limited says it has received the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria to commence the sale of foreign exchange to licenced Bureau De Change operators. The lender, in a statement on Thursday, said it had strengthened its money transfer services in compliance with the rules ...
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Senate summons CBN, MTN, banks over $13.9bn transfer probe
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate on Thursday summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria, MTN Nigeria, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, three commercial banks and some businessmen over alleged violation of the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous) Act. The upper chamber of the National Assembly had instituted a probe into ...
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I didn’t bribe judges to validate my election –Wike
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt THE Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has described as false an online report that he bribed some Supreme Court justices to get his governorship election victory validated. Wike said his election was upheld in line with the same principles of law that also validated the ...