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— Chinua Achebe
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Lagos Commodities, Futures Exchange Raises Awareness On Growth Potential
The Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE) has restated its commitment to create awareness on how the commodities exchange can grow the nation’s Gross Domestic Product(GDP) in 2022. The Exchange, which commended the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on their roles in ensuring uptrend ...
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Stiler firma contrato por obras que implicarán una inversión de US$ 5 millones en San José
Los trabajos abarcarán la remodelación de la avenida Luis Alberto de Herrera y el acondicionamiento de la plaza 4 de Octubre.
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Sonae e IPLF Holding vendem MDS ao Ardonagh Group
A aquisição pelo maior grupo de corretagem independente do Reino Unido do grupo MDS permite o reforço da sua presença nacional e internacional na área dos seguros e consultoria de risco. O negócio terá envolvido 200 milhões de euros.
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2022: Ecommerce’s First Trillion Dollar Year
E-commerce will have its first trillion-dollar year of sales in 2022 as people continue to shift their spending habits online amid the COVID-19 pandemic, new data from Adobe projects. Despite this exciting news for the sector, there are inherent growth hurdles for domestic online marketplaces, particularly the Jumias and Kongas ...
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IFC, Fidson Partner On Local Production Of Pharmaceutical Products
To support Africa’s goal of strengthening its production of medicines and reducing its reliance on imports, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Nigeria’s Fidson Healthcare Plc. have partnered to develop Nigeria’s capacity to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Through the partnership, IFC and Fidson will conduct a feasibility study to ...
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Ganduje Signs 2022 Budget Bill Into Law
Governor of Kano State Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has signed the 2022 appropriation bill into law. Speaking immediately after signing the bill at the Government House Kano, the governor said the budget would be in effect from the first day of January 2022. He said the budget was meant to complete ...
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Governor Yahaya Presents Gombe Devt Plan To Finance Minister
Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, yesterday presented copies of Gombe State 10-year development plan to minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed. The governor who was accompanied by the commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Muhammad Gambo Magaji, on a visit to the minister in her ...
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Lagos Finalises Issuance Of N137.3 bn Bond To Tackle Infrastructure Deficit
Lagos State government has finalized all statutory instruments that will facilitate the raising of N137.328 billion Bonds from the capital market to deliver key infrastructure in critical sectors of the economy. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu personally presided over the ceremony where necessary documents required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
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Petro Union $15bn Fraud Case: Supreme Court Okays Union Bank’s Appeal Bid
The Supreme Court has granted the application by Union Bank Plc to appeal the Court of Appeal judgement against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Union Bank, Minister of Finance and the Attorney-General of the Federation. The Federal High Court had in 2014 awarded the sum of £2.550 billion with ...
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Bet9ja Now Official Partner Of Nigeria Professional Football League
Nigeria’s leading betting platform, Bet9ja, has signed a partnership deal with the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL). The partnership was initiated as a result of the interest and attention the Nigerian elite division was generating on the sports betting platform. According to Bet9ja, the partnership is an opportunity to get involved and ...
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Orange Lecture 2021: Genesis House, Access Women Network Proffer Solutions To GBV
As part of efforts to curb the menace of gender-based violence against women, Genesis House in partnership with Access Women Network, has hosted the 2021 edition of Orange Lecture in Lagos. The event focused on tackling violence against women which has been a problem to people from various regions, countries, ...
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MTN Introduces RCS Business Messaging with Google, Dotgo
MTN Nigeria is set to launch RCS Business Messaging (RBM) Services in partnership with Google and Dotgo, a Gupshup company and a leading cloud communications provider of RBM Solutions. RBM uses the rich and interactive features of Rich Communication Services (RCS)—the next generation SMS that allows sharing of audio, video, ...
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Unicaf Varsity Doctoral Student, Akerewusi, Appointed CIS Registrar/CEO
Unicaf University has received with great joy the news that Josiah Akerewusi, currently a doctoral student and candidate for the Doctorate in Business Administration at the University, has been recently appointed as the new Registrar and CEO of the Nigeria Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS). According to the university, the ...
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INEC Promotes 1,985 Staff
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promoted 1,985 members of its staff nationwide. INEC in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the promotion exercise was in furtherance to its commitment to the welfare and development of its staff. The promotion comes on the heels of the 2021 ...
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Police Begin Trial Of Officers Involved In Extortion
The FCT commissioner of police, CP Sunday Babaji, has ordered the immediate arrest, investigation and trial of police officers seen in a viral video extorting a motorist. FCT police spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh, said the officers who were on traffic duty along Area 11, Abuja, where a young man whose ...
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Federal Govt To Replace NIN Slip With Digital Tokens January 1
The Federal Government has introduced a suite of digital Tokens to replace the aging NIN slip and polycarbonate card. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami said this at stakeholders workshop on the National Identification Number (NIN) Tokenization Solution organised by National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Abuja. ...
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Yuletide: Customs Intercepts 14 Truck-loads Of Smuggled Rice
The federal operations unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Wednesday, said it intercepted 7,059 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country from neighbouring countries. Speaking to journalists in Lagos at the unit’s end-of-the-year press briefing, the acting controller of the unit, deputy ...
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NAF Promotes 60 Officers, Grants Concessional Commission To 6 SNCOs
The Nigeria Air Force Council (AFC) has approved the promotion of 60 senior officers comprising 29 Air Vice Marshals (AVMs) and 31 Air Commodores (Air Cdres) to the next higher ranks in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). The Council also approved the concessional commission of an Air Warrant Officer (AWO) ...
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KADIPA, The One-stop Shop For Kaduna Investors
When was KADIPA established? KADIPA was established by Law No.17 on December 23, 2015 and it began operations in 2016, what the agency does is to promote, facilitate, and originates invesyments into Kaduna State via Greenfield Projects, commercialisation, public-private-partnership PPP and privatisation. We are also tasked wih showcasing the ...
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Building Accident-free Road Transportation Through Dangote Initiative
Nigerian economy depends strongly on the functionality of the road transport system and researches have proved that about 90 per cent of the macroeconomic activities in Nigeria also depend on land transportation. For this reason, the road is vital for economic development of the country. However, road traffic fatalities and ...
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Ekiti, Osun: Violate Electoral Act, Be Sanctioned, INEC Tells Parties
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of next year governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, has urged political parties to respect provisions of the law in choosing their candidates. Chairman, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners insisted that ...