Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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GSK, NGO Equip Lagos, Jigawa Hospitals With N100m Medical Equipment
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Save the Children International (SCI) have equipped about 65 public health facilities in Jigawa and Lagos States with over N100 million medical equipment, instruments and consumables. The duo did this under the INSPIRING project partnership. Following thorough assessment by SCI and GSK, the donation was made to ...
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Agric Minister Warns Against Use Of Antibiotics To Promote Animal growth
Minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, has warned Nigerian farmers to desist from the use of antibiotics to promote growth in animals. He said only pharmaceutical companies should be responsible for the marketing, supply and distribution of antimicrobials. The minister handed down this warning in Abuja ...
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Huawei, Arravo Sensitise Customers On New Technology Solutions
Huawei, in collaboration with Arravo, one of its partners in Nigeria, have raised customers’ awareness about new technology trends and solutions that would drive business growth and profitability, while reducing operational cost. At a stakeholders’ forum in Lagos, the CEO, Arravo, Mr. Ayo Adegboye, said the forum was organised to ...
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Total Restates Commitment To Peace, Dignity In Host Communities
Multinational oil company, Total Energies, has restated its commitment to the promotion of peace and dignity in its host communities across the Niger Delta region. The company’s manager, Community Relations, Offshore and Port Harcourt, Dr. Nnamdi Ahiamadu, disclosed this on Saturday while speaking at an event to mark the International ...
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Targeting MSMEs With Huge Financial Bailout
According to statistics from Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), there are over 47million Micro Small Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country, accounting for 50 per cent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is even as MSMEs contributes ...
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Encouraging Preference For Local Materials In Built Sector
Nigeria is not just an import-dependent nation by chance, the libido of Nigerians toward foreign materials has made the country a dumping site for foreign goods. From electronic to cheap things like toothpick and even water, they are all imported into the country. To this end, foreign manufacturers see Nigeria, ...
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What Biden’s Removal Of Nigeria From Religious Violation Watchlist Means
The removal of Nigeria from the religious violators watchlist by the Biden-led US administration in the run-up to the visit of Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State is a triumph of diplomacy and sagacity over hate-driven foreign policy, itself founded on false propaganda. President Muhammadu Buhari is truly satisfied with ...
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NDLEA Warns New Officers Against Temptations From Drug Barons
Chairman/chief executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (retd) has warned 2,000 newly trained officers of the anti-narcotics agency to resist every temptation that will make them compromise their duties and responsibilities. While addressing them at the passing-out parade at the NDLEA Academy, Jos, ...
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Customs FOU Zone’B’ Siezes 98 Contrabands Worth Over N390m DPV
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operative Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ with headquarters in Kaduna has made 98 siezures of various prohibited Items within 30th September – 16th November, 2021 worth N390,992,674.8 Duty Paid Value (DPV). In the same vein, 393,900 unregistered pregabalin capsules, 80 bottles of codeine syrup and ...
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Customs Beams Searchlight On Exporters Over Irregularities
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Wednesday, said it had shifted focus from import to identifying irregularities in export trade. Speaking when executive members of the Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria (SCAN) paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Lagos, the coordinator of the comptroller-general Strike Force Unit, ...
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Federal Govt’s Unpaid Pension Liabilities Stand At N90.1bn
Despite recent efforts to cut the lump sum of inherited liabilities under the Defined Benefits Scheme, official data has showed that the federal government is still owing an accrued pension arrears of N90.1 billion unfunded liabilities to pensioners of some agencies of the government. The agencies affected are: Nigeria Re-Insurance ...
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Nigeria Needs To Invest N1.9trn Annually On Sanitation – UNICEF
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s World Toilet Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that the country needs to invest 1.30 per cent of its GDP per year ($5.3 billion or N1.9 trillion) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets ...
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MTN Partners With Landafrique On High-speed Internet Services
In its continued commitment to enhancing broadband access and internet penetration nationwide, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has entered into a partnership with Landafrique Nigeria Limited to deploy fibre-optic infrastructure connecting homes and businesses in Agbara industrial Estate, Ogun State. This is following the installation of the same infrastructure in Dakkada ...
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NDLEA Chairman Visits Governor Lalong, Decries Ravaging Effects Of Drugs
The chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Gen. Buba Marwa, rtd., has visited Plateau State governor, Simon Bako Lalong, at the Government House, Rayfield Jos, where he lamented the ravaging effects of drug abuse on the society, particularly violent crimes. Marwa, who was on a courtesy visit to ...
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FCT NUT Calls Off Warning Strike
Teachers of primary and government secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have called off the five- day warning strike which started yesterday. This followed a promise by the FCT minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, to pay their arrears of ...
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Sen Uba Sani Elated As Buhari Signs AMCON Bill Into Law
Senator Uba Sani of Kaduna Central has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for signing into law, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment No. 3) Bill, 2021, saying the new Act will remove obstacles to the smooth operation of AMCON and safeguard the banking sector and the economy in trying times. ...
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After 3 Positive Growths, Nigeria’s GDP Slows To 4.03%
After recording positive growths for three consecutive quarters, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew lower than the celebrated growth of 5.01 per cent recorded in the second quarter of 2021 by 0.98 per cent points, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to the official ...
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Customs Seizes 98 Contrabands Worth N390m In Kaduna
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operative Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ with headquarters in Kaduna has made 98 siezures of various prohibited items within September 30 and November 16, 2021 worth N390,992,674.8 Duty Paid Value (DPV). In the same vein, 393,900 unregistered pregabalin capsules, 80 bottles of codeine syrup and ...
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Confiança do empresário do comércio cai pelo terceiro mês
O Índice de Confiança do Empresário do Comércio (Icec) recuou 1,3% em novembro na comparação com outubro. Essa é a terceira queda consecutiva do indicador, divulgado pela Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC). Segundo o presidente da CNC, José Roberto Tadros, apesar do aumento da circulação de ...
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ICT Has Transformed Nigeria’s Economy, Says Pantami
Minister of communication and digital economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), has said the advent of accessible information and communication technology (ICT) has accelerated Nigeria’s economic development. He said a significant number of the present information and communication technology are tools of the digital economy infrastructure promoted by the federal ...
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6 States To Benefit From MTN Mobile Clinics
Six states in the country are expected to benefit from MTN mobile clinics in the country. This gesture was by MTN Nigeria through its foundation and in partnership with the ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, at the state level. The six states that will ...