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Cina
Trump Targets Steel Trade, but China Will Be Tough to Contain
Global steel makers blame Chinese rivals for swamping the world with unwanted product, but closing mills there can be expensive and difficult.
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Nigeria
No medical screening, no marriage, Kaduna Assembly passes new law
It is now unlawful to get married without undergoing medical screening in Kaduna State. This followed the passage into law, the Pre-medical Examination Bill 2017, by the State House of Assembly on Thursday. The law now compel would-be couple to undergo medical test to determine their health status and compatibility before marriage. The new ...
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Nigeria
BREAKING: Buhari appoints Bello NEXIM Bank MD
Friday Olokor, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Abubakar Abba Bello as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive of Nigeria Export-Import Bank. Others appointed for NEXIM Bank are Dr. Bala Mohammed Bello (Executive Director, Corporate Services) and Stella Okotete (Executive Director, Business Development). A terse statement issued in Abuja on Thursday evening with Ref. ...
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Nigeria
FG inaugurates committee to expand trade with other countries
Ifeanyi Onuba,Abuja The Federal Government in a bid to expand Nigeria’s trade with other countries of the world has inaugurated a national committee for the Continental Free Trade Area negotiations. African Union Heads of State and Government at their summit in 2012, decided to establish a Continental Free Trade Area, ...
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Nigeria
PMB Appoints New Management For Nexim Bank
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Abubakar Abba Bello as the new Managing Director of Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM). This is contained in a statement issued by the director media, Bolaji Adebiyi in the office of the Secretary to the government of the federation. He said also appointed ...
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Nigeria
IGP Idris Tasks Nigerians To Expose Corruption In Police
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has urged Nigerians to use the various social media platforms and expose corruption and misconduct in the police. The IGP, who stated this yesterday, in Abuja during the inauguration of the partnership between the Nigeria Police and Akin Fadeyi Foundation on an anti-corruption initiative ...
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Nigeria
Medical Tourism: Saudi German Hospital To Collaborate With Nigerian Doctors
Doctors from Saudi German Hospital in Dubai have disclosed intentions to partner with Nigerian Doctors on Neurosurgery training and use of the state of the art medical equipment. “Saudi German Hospital is keen to train doctors from this region and set up telemedicine centres in Abuja. In long term, it ...
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Nigeria
Economic Recovery: Emphasising Made-in- Nigeria Goods
The love for foreign goods and services to the detriment of locally produced ones has remained a debilitating economic drain which has, in turn, contributed immensely to the current recession. It is for this reason that the current campaign to promote the patronage of Made- in -Nigerian goods has been ...
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Nigeria
CBN Releases Fresh $100m To FOREX Market
Apart from the $280 million it injected into the Foreign Exchange Market on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on yesterday, carried out spot, wholesale interventions in the interbank FOREX market by offering a total sum of $100m to authorized dealers to meet the 7 to ...
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Nigeria
Abuja Airport: British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Others Resume Full Operations Today
Barely 24 hours after the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) was opened for flight operations, no fewer than seven foreign airlines are expected to resume full flight operations into and out of the airport today. Ethiopian Airlines had on Tuesday landed with over 200 passengers on-board an A350 aircraft, making ...