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Nigeria
Local cement production saves Nigeria $2bn annually – Dangote
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja Nigeria is saving about $2bn annually as a result of the local production of cement by different manufacturers, the Dangote Group has stated. It also stated that the upsurge in cement production had helped increase the manufacturing sector’s contribution to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product from about four ...
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Nigeria
FG proposes jail term for dollar hoarders
Oyetunji Abioye with agency report The Federal Government has proposed an amendment to the Foreign-Exchange Act to enable the imprisonment of anyone who holds foreign currencies, especially the dollar, for more than 30 days. This is the latest measure the government and the Central Bank of Nigeria are considering to ...
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Nigeria
Southwest governors meet today on economy
Southwest governors will meet today in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on the economic development of the region, it was learnt last night. Expected are Governors Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Ayodele Fayose (Ekiti) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun). They are to discuss how ...
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Nigeria
Investors sell shareholdings to cushion recession
Institutional and individual major investors are selling their shareholdings to cushion the effects of the recession and cash crunch The Nation has learnt. Transactional documents on recent major sales showed that many institutional investors are increasingly turning to the stock market to source for funds through secondary shares sale to ...
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Nigeria
Tompolo, kinsman trade accusations over pipelines bombings
Embattled former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta Chief Government Ekpemupolo has disavowed threats to attack oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Some groups recently vowed to resume attacks on oil facilities, unless the EFCC drops fraud charges against Tompolo. But Tompolo not only dissociated ...
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Nigeria
Mamma Daura, Buhari’s Chief of Staff escapes abduction
…gunmen abduct ex-minister of state, Hirse Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse, was yesterday abducted in Kaduna. According to an eyewitness, the incident happened in front of the residence of Alhaji Mamman Daura on Inuwa Wada Road, Unguwar Rimi GRA, Kaduna. Our correspondent learnt that, President Muhammadu Buhari’s ...
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Vietnam Italia Pakistan
Anti-mondialisation, en Algérie le Brexit et le vote Trump sont déjà au pouvoir
Une question essentielle se pose : si la mondialisation ne convient plus aux pays qui en sont le cœur nucléaire, alors peut-être est-ce parce qu’elle profite surtout aux pays de la périphérie dont fait partie l’Algérie. L’argumentaire du Brexit et du vote Trump le laissent penser. Ils reprochent à la ...
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Algeria Italia
Scepticisme des uns, optimisme des autres
«Libérer les initiatives ne doit, dorénavant, plus être un vain mot. D’autant que c’est dans un minimum d’actions que peuvent se trouver le maximum des ressources potentielles. Mais à une autre condition : que les feuilles de route ne soient pas définies par la soumission aux contraintes, mais par la ...
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Algeria
Lever les contraintes pour favoriser la création de richesses
Ancrer les mécanismes de gouvernance locale, élargir l’assiette fiscale et garantir l’autonomie fiscale sont, de l’avis des experts, les principales conditions à assurer pour permettre aux communes de jouer un rôle dans le développement économique. Pour Ahmed Bouguermouh, enseignant et spécialiste du développement local, le lancement d’un véritable Développement local ...
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Spagna
Economía/Empresas.- FacePhi firma un contrato para desarrollar el proyecto europeo FACCESS por 1,7 millones
MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS) FacePhi ha firmado con la Comisión Europea el contrato para el desarrollo y la implantación del proyecto FACCESS por un importe cercado a los 1,7 millones de euros, según ha informado este lunes la compañía al Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB).