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Nigeria
Nigeria signs $1b Intra-Africa trade deal with Afreximbank
Nigeria yesterday signed a $1billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to promote trade. The trade facilitation instrument will be managed by the Nigeria-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion Programme (NATIPP), AFREXIM, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and the Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM). Afreximbank Chairman ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria owes IOCs $5.1b, says NNPC
NIGERIA indebtedness to International Oil Companies (IOCs) stood at $5.1 billion, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) told the Senate yesterday. The $5.1 billion, according to the Corporation, was accumulated from the Joint Venture Cash Call (JVC) business arrangement the country has with IOCs on oil exploration. But the NNPC ...
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Nigeria
PPP Approach To Rehabilitate Refineries Slow – PMB
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern that the Public Private Partnership approach adopted by his administration to rehabilitate the nation’s existing refineries has taken longer than expected. Buhari said this yesterday when he received in audience the newly elected national executives of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas ...
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Nigeria
How A Doctor Helped Turn Lagos Swamp To Sustainable Trade Zone
Unlike most business people who have a doctorate, Dr Amy Jadesimi really is a doctor. The accomplished CEO of a major Nigerian logistics company – that is also the country’s first privately-developed port terminal – started her working life as a medical doctor, graduating from the prestigious Oxford University. She ...
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Nigeria
Nigerian Women Leading In Poverty – UN
The United Nations Women country representative in Nigeria, Ms Comfort Lamptey, has said Nigerian women are leading in poverty, stressing that more than 73 per cent of Nigerian women in business have not had access to any form of financial facility to support their enterprise. To tackle the challenge, the ...
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Israele
Business in Brief: Teva Pharm to move headquarters to Tel Aviv
IAI says working on Tel Aviv share offering ■ TASE finishes week slightly above water
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Nicaragua
Alemania lamenta "prohibición" de ONG en Nicaragua
A la luz de los recientes acontecimientos en Nicaragua, la Comisionada del Gobierno Federal para Derechos Humanos y Ayuda Humanitaria,[...]
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Senegal
Soixante dix-sept motos pour rapprocher l'offre de soins des populations du Sud et de l'Est
Dakar, 13 déc (APS) - Le ministre de la Santé et de l'Action sociale, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, a réceptionné officiellement ce jeudi 77 motos d'une valeur de 97, 5 millions de francs CFA, offertes par le Fonds des Nations unies pour la population (UNFPA), a constaté l'APS. - SANTE
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Senegal Burkina Faso
La prévalence contraceptive passe au Sénégal de 12 % à 26,3 %, grâce au Partenariat de Ouagadougou (ministre)
Dakar, 13 déc (APS) - Le Partenariat de Ouagadougou (PO) a permis de vulgariser la planification familiale dans ses neuf pays d'intervention, dont le Sénégal, où, grâce à cette initiative, le taux de prévalence contraceptive est passé de 12 % en 2010 à 26,3 % en 2017, a indiqué le ...
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Senegal Burkina Faso
Planification familiale : trois millions d'utilisatrices additionnelles en sept ans, dans neuf pays
Dakar, 13 déc (APS) - Le Partenariat de Ouagadougou a permis de faire adhérer trois millions de femmes à "la planification familiale moderne", de 2011 à 2018, a-t-on appris jeudi de Fatimata Sy, la directrice de cette initiative regroupant neufs pays francophones d'Afrique de l'Ouest. - SANTE