Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Negative Publicity On Insecurity Sending Away Foreign Investors, Says Niger Gov
Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has said the reasons why some investors run from coming to Nigeria in recent times, was because of the negative publicity on the security challenges in Nigeria. He said the situation has discouraged genuine businessmen to invest in the country, despite the investment prospects ...
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Reflections on 61 years of U.S. – Nigerian Engagement
As Nigeria celebrates its national day, we celebrate our enduring bilateral partnership with the continent’s regional, political, and economic powerhouse. We appreciate Nigeria’s leadership in the region, standing up for the integrity of democratic nations in West Africa. Nigeria was among the first to condemn the recent coup in Guinea, ...
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Gov Sani Bello, Others Visit Turkey’s Major Industrial Hub
As part of activities culminating the Turkey-Nigeria business congress, governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State, the deputy governor of Jigawa State Alhaji Umar Namadi and his Bauchi State counterpart, Governor Bala Mohammed, as well as some private investors participating in the business forum yesterday, visited Gebze Industrial zone in ...
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NSE Blames Lack Of Functional Engineering Infrastructures On Low Investments
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has blamed low investments, corruption, poor maintenance culture, and lack of confidence in Nigerian engineers for the near absence of functional general and engineering infrastructure in Nigeria. NSE chairman of Maitama branch, Abuja, Engr. Oladipupo Mabogaje, made this known at the 11th Engineering Conference ...
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Opportunities Abound In Nigeria’s Tourism Industry – Adesanmi
The managing director of DubaiAfrika, a Nigerian luxury tourism & lifestyle brand, Tolu Adesanmi, in this interview with LEADERSHIP explains the opportunities available in Nigeria’s tourism industry and investors can take advantage of them. What are the business opportunities embedded in the Nigeria’s tourism industry? The tourism industry is very ...
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Nigeria Loses $190bn Annually To Exportation Of Raw Cocoa – NEXIM MD
The managing director of the Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Mr. Abba Bello, has disclosed that Nigeria loses up to $190 billion to the exportation of raw cocoa on yearly basis. Bello said Nigeria is supposed to make $200 billion annually if the country has been exporting processed cocoa out of ...
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Fish Out Killers Of Police Officer In Lagos, Sanwo-Olu Tells CP
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, to fish out the killers of Kazeem Abonde, a Chief Superintendent of Police. The governor in a statement he personally signed said the government of Lagos State has noted with deep concern attacks on law enforcement agents ...
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Education: Nigeria, Ukraine Meet On Bilateral Relationship
In a bid to boost the nation’s educational system through foreign educational institutions, the Nigerian and Ukrainian governments met in Abuja to discuss modalities of developing bilateral relationship between both countries. The federal ministry of Education scheduled the expert meeting with the Ukrainian counterparts and heads of prominent universities to ...
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Nigeria Loses $20.4m Annually To NPA’s Retrogressive Towage Charges
Nigerian economy is losing a whopping $20.4million (N10 billion) annually to towage charges carried out on vessels visiting the nation’s seaports. LEADERSHIP recalls that vessels towage is an act by which one vessel, known as the tug, supplies power in order to draw another vessel. According to the National Bureau ...
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Senate Moves To Improve Nigeria’s Power Generation Capacity
The Senate, on Tuesday, considered the Electricity Bill, 2021, which seeks to consolidate all legislations in the power sector into one electricity statute, with the ultimate aim of improving Nigeria’s power generation capacity. The Bill which scaled second reading during plenary is sponsored by Senator Gabriel Suswam (PDP, Benue North-East). ...
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Nigeria Loses $190bn Annually To Cocoa Exportation – NEXIM MD
The managing director of the Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Mr. Abba Bello, has disclosed that Nigeria loses up to $190billion annually to exportation of raw cocoa. Bello said Nigeria ought to make $200billion annually if the country has been exporting processed cocoa. The NEXIM boss made the disclosure in Akure, ...
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Opportunities : It Takes A Reader To Sell Books – Eyinade
Adedotun Eyinade is the co-founder and director of Roving Heights a bookstore with two stores located in Lagos Island and mainland, and Abuja. A family-run business operated alongside his sister and wife, Roving Heights has a staff strength of twenty-two and has held a greater public interest since its collaboration ...
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P&G’s New Partnership Deal To Boost Capacity Of Manufacturing Sector
To further strengthen its local manufacturing footprint in Nigeria, leading consumer goods company, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has announced the expansion of its supply chain manufacturing operations. P&G Nigeria has entered a manufacturing partnership with the SIL Group and Ugee Chemicals for the end-to-end manufacturing of locally produced raw materials ...
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YPP Urges FG To Stabilize Economy For Business Growth
The Young Progressive Party (YPP) has called on the federal government to build a stable economy that would help to grow existing businesses in the country. The party made the call in its message through the Media and Publicity Directorate signed by its national secretary, Vidiyeno Bamaiyi to mark Nigeria’s ...
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Federal Govt To Partner Turkey For Humanitarian Response, Mitigation
The government of Turkey has indicated interest in cooperating with Nigeria in the areas of humanitarian response and mitigation. The Ambassador of Turkey in Nigeria, Mr Hidayet Bayraktar made this known on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development ...
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Insurance Managers Set For Increased Insurance Penetration
Following deliberations at the recently concluded 47th African Insurance Organisation (AIO) conference in Lagos, insurance managers have vowed to implement some of the resolutions by improving on their product and service delivery. This, they said, will equally lead to increased insurance penetration, adoption and acceptance in the country. On his ...
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CBN Pumps N424.14bn Into Power, Gas Infrastructure
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it has given out N424.14 billion to help develop electricity and gas infrastructure in the country. The apex bank maintained that the federal government needs about $100 billion annually to address the nation’s infrastructure deficit. Delivering the keynote address at the Finance Correspondents ...
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ITF To Partner UK On Implementation Of Skills Programmes In Nigeria
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom’s Skills for Prosperity – Nigeria (S4P-N) programme to promote and institutionalise the fund’s intervention programmes to become flagship programmes for the national apprenticeship training system (NATS). A statement issued by Mrs. Suleyol Fred Chagu, director, public affairs ...
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Nigeria, Russia Trade Volume Still Low – Shaposhnikov
The deputy head of mission, Russia Embassy, Ambassador Valery Shaposhnikov has decried that the trade volume between Nigeria and Russia is still low, and stressed the need for Nigerian agro-food export to meet international standards. This is even as the envoy said the trade volume between both nations is $600 ...
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New Nigeria-Russia Chamber Of Commerce, Opportunity To Consolidate Trade, Business – Osinbajo
With mutual diplomatic relations between both countries dating back to the 60s, the formal inauguration of a Nigeria-Russia Chamber of Commerce and Industry will greatly consolidate efforts made to deepen the long-lasting relationship and invigorate business opportunities, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Prof. Osinbajo made the observation yesterday when ...
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SON Partners States To Build SMEs’ Capacity For Export
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has partnered with some state governors in a bid to grow and develop the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in their respective states. To this end, SON signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the concerned States to assist SMEs standardise their production processes, ...