Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Lagos Assembly Moves To Protect Consumers’ Rights
Lagos State House of Assembly has reiterated its determination to protect rights of consumers within the state by repealing the extant law in conformity with modern realities. The House made the affirmation at the weekend during a public hearing on “A Bill for a Law to Establish the Lagos State ...
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Nigeria: With 559 Days to Go, Buhari On Aggressive International Investment Drive
[This Day] Abuja -- With 559 days to the end of his tenure, a normally reticent President Muhammadu Buhari has come out of his shell, flying from one investment summit to another in aggressive pursuit of foreign investors.
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NDLEA Intercepts N4.9bn Cocaine, Heroin Consignments, Arrests Suspects
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have incepted fresh consignments of Cocaine and Heroin with a combined weight of 16.85 kilograms worth over N4.9billion in street value. The consignments were separately seized at the Apapa seaport and Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, both in Lagos. The NDLEA ...
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Chikun, Fadan Ayu, Kudaru get new Chiefs
Kaduna State Government has appointed Chiefs for Chikun, Fadan Ayu and Kudaru Chiefdoms, signifying the first set of appointments since the new Traditional Institution Law was passed. It will be recalled that the new law specifies rotation amongst ruling houses as the succession pattern, except where there is a sole ...
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COP26: UK Doles Out £27.5M To Accelerate Transition To Net Zero By 2050 In Lagos, Others
The UK government has launched the new Urban Climate Action programme (UCAP) to support Lagos and other regions in developing countries most impacted by climate change to accelerate their transition to net zero by 2050. Backed with £27.5million of new UK government funding as part of the UK’s International Climate ...
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NIMASA To Partner Coastal States On Blue Economy
Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said it would partner with the governments of the coastal states towards the development of the country’s blue economy. Special assistant to NIMASA director-general on strategic communication, Ubong Essien, disclosed this yesterday during an interaction with journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State ...
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South African Speaker, Nontembeko, Proposes Strong Legislation Against Rape In Africa
Speaker of KwaZulu Natal legislature in South Africa, Hon. Boyce Nontembeko, has advised African Parliamentarians to legislate strong laws that would enable successful prosecution of rape cases in the court of law, with the view to bringing suspects to book. Current legislations in most African countries, especially Nigeria, make it ...
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We Will Make Kaduna Sports Business Oriented – Commissioner
The Kaduna State Commissioner, Ministry of Sports Development, Idris Nyam has assured that the ministry will go all out in ensuring that sports becomes big business in the state. He stated this when the Kaduna State chapter of the Sports Writers Association of NIgeria (SWAN), executives, led by its chairman, Comrade ...
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Kunle Afolayan, Others To Lead Sessions On Video Business At 2021 SBI Media Workshop
It is reported that by 2022, video consumption will make up more than 82 per cent of all consumer internet traffic, 15 times higher than the figure from 2017. To this end, SBI Media Workshop, a training programme launched last year by Lagos-based media agency, SBI Media, has enlisted Kunle ...
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Access Bank, Verve Offer Cardholders 10% Discount On Konga Yakata
Access Bank Plc and Verve Nigeria have offered cardholders 10 per cent discounts for purchases using their debit cards at the ongoing Konga Yakata, Nigeria’s Black Friday Sales plus. The Konga Yakata 2021 shopping extravaganza runs from November 11 through Dec 12, 2021. It is widely regarded as the biggest ...
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UNICEF, Jumia To Connect Schools In Nigeria, Others To Internet
UNICEF and African e-commerce platform Jumia (NYSE: JMIA) announced a partnership in support of Giga’s work to connect every school in Nigeria and other parts of Africa to the internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. Jumia’s data science capacity will offer Giga insights into the economic ...
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Separatist Groups Enjoying Global Sympathy, NSA Raises Alarm
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Retd), has said that separatist agitations in some parts of the West African region were gaining global attention due to international sympathy. Monguno stated this in paper he presented at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum in Paris, France, titled: “Combating Persistent ...
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Drug Distribution: Marketers Seek Registered Warehouses In States, Set Up Taskforce
To keep drugs safe and intact from the point of manufacture and import to storage, and distribution to the end users, the Association of Pharmaceutical Products Marketers of Nigeria (APPMAN) has said that it was working on having registered warehouses with regulated facilities in each state of the Federation. APPMAN ...
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Nigeria: Akwa Ibom Woos Investors to $3bn Ftz
[This Day] The need for diversification and collaboration in the wake of the global pandemic, as a vehicle towards achieving a robust economy, cannot be overemphasized. This was the reverberating sentiment opined by guests at the just concluded German-Nigerian Business Forum, which held physically at Eko Hotel & Suites, Lagos. ...
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Onne Port Revenue Rises To N19bn
The Area 2 Command, Onne Port in Rivers State has reaffirmed commitment to value addition through increased revenue drive as it records steady growth from N13.11 billion to N19 billion in October. The command’s comptroller Auwal Mohammed disclosed this during an interaction with the Business and Maritime Writers Association of ...
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Subsidy Draining Nigeria’s Economy – Finance Minister
Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said petroleum under-recovery popularly known as fuel subsidy is a major drain on the nation’s economy, which ought to have been scrapped to free up money for critical sectors like health and education. She said, “It is a major ...
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Jaiz Bank Finances Construction Of 10,000 Housing Units
Jaiz Bank Plc has financed over 10,000 units of houses in the country since inception, partnering with different developers, the executive director, North, Dr Sirajo Salisu has said. Speaking at the 5th African international conference on Islamic Finance in Abuja, Dr. Salisu said Islamic finance is touching lives of people ...
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Aisha Buhari, Others For Women Africa-UAE Investment Forum
Dignitaries including Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari; first female President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan; Zimbabwean First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa; State Governors wives of Kaduna, Kebbi and Kwara: Mrs Hadiza el-Rufai, Dr Zainab Bagudu and Mrs Olufolake AbdulRasaq, will lead a host of other global business leaders to this ...
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BREAKING: Police Arrest 14 Suspects Over Justice Odili’s Home Invasion
The Nigerian Police has arrested 14 suspects behind the raid on Justice Mary Odili’s home in Abuja. One fake Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Lawrence Ajojo and 13 other suspects including some members of other law enforcement agencies involved in the illegal activity were arrested. On Thursday at the Force ...
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Kenya To Work With Nigeria In Tourism, Hospitality
Kenyan High commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Wilfred Machage has indicated the interest of Kenya to work closely with Nigeria in tourism and hospitality. The envoy also decried the stagnation of intra-African trade by 15% in the last few years compared to the levels in Europe and Asia which stand at ...
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Emefiele Woos Foreign Investors, Says Nigeria Ready For Business
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele has appealed to foreign investors to come over and invest in Nigeria, whose economy he said is fast growing after recovering from the COVID-19 induced recession. Mr Emefiele assured the investing community that CBN will continue to monitor progress and ...