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Nigeria
Oyo Customs record N8.8bn revenue in six months
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service said that it generated a total of N8,895,206 revenue in the first half of the 2017. While giving a report of the command’s activities within the period, the Area Controller of the command, Udo-Aka Emmanuel, said the command ...
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Nigeria
Averting a worse recession
THE alarm sounded recently by the Central Bank of Nigeria on the economy effectively poured cold water on earlier optimism that the country was poised to emerge from recession to significant growth. Like the apex bank, the International Monetary Fund has also passed a less optimistic verdict on the economy. ...
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Nigeria
Board sets 70% local content target to retain $14b
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has set an ambitious target of 70 per cent growth in local content over the next 10 years. This will enable the country to retain $14 billion from the $20 billion spent yearly in the upstream oil and gas industry. When the ...
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Nigeria
Insurers pay flood victims N168.4m
•Lagos flood victims file claims The Nigeria Insurance Association (NIA) has said insurance firms paid N168.44 million to flood victims in 2015. It also said flood victims in the Victoria Island and Lekki axis of Lagos State were already filing their claims. NIA Chairman Eddie Efekoha, at a media parley ...
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Nigeria
I’m far from being religious–Asiri Comedy
Asiri Comedy whose real name is Osundare Damilare has blazed the comedy circle together with his partner, Arole. In this interview with Olowe Praise, Solomon Odeniyi and Segun Odunayo, he explains his journey into comedy, the secularity of his jokes and his relationship with Arole. Excerpts How did comedy begin ...
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Nigeria
2019: PDP Professionals and Business Group Urge Atiku, Others Back To Party
By ANDREW ESSIEN, Abuja Ahead of the 2019 general elections, concerned citizens under the aegis of National PDP Professionals and Business Group (NPPBG) has urged the leadership of the party to urgently put in motion activities to bring former members of the party back home. Coming out of her National ...
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Senegal
Conférence de presse de présentation du trophée des Nations, ce lundi
Dakar, 6 août (APS) – Les zones ouest A et B de la Confédération africaine de football organisent en partenariat avec le groupe Fox Network Group une conférence de presse de présentation du trophée de la Coupe des nations des dites zones ce lundi à 9h au Terrou Bi, a ...
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Turchia
What foreign investors want in Turkey is clear
The government has recently been holding a series of meetings with foreign investors in a bid to recover Turkey’s deteriorated perception.
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Turkey’s Çavuşoğlu talks Syria with US, Russian counterparts in Manila
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met on Aug. 6 with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in the Philippine capital Manila during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum, before holding a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later in the day
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Israele
Tel Aviv shares down sharply as Teva falls off cliff
Business in Brief | S&P raises Israel’s sovereign rating outlook to Positive ■ Noble expects to have customers for most Leviathan output by 2019 ■ Cellcom Israel boosts net while revenues fall