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Nigeria
Fitch Reviews Nigeria’s Growth to 2.1% For 2021
Fitch Solutions, an arm of the international rating agency, Fitch Ratings says it expects the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow by 2.1 per cent by the end of 2021 an upward review from 1.8 per cent which it previously projected for the country. Nigeria’s real GDP grew by ...
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Nigeria
Global Export Trade To Hit $30trn By 2030
A research by Standard Chartered has projected global exports will almost double from $17.4 trillion to $29.7 trillion over the next decade. The report also revealed 13 markets that will drive much of this growth, as Nigeria is expected to drive future trade growth by $112 billion at an average ...
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Nigeria
Osinbajo Harps On Return Of Stolen Artefacts From Nigeria
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has harped on the need to return artefacts stolen and illegally taken from Nigeria, especially Yoruba land. Speaking at the launch of the Yoruba World Centre, an initiative of Alao Adedayo, publisher of Alaroye Newspapers, towards promotion of Yoruba custom and tradition in Ibadan, he urged ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA Intercepts N2.7bn Cocaine At Abuja Airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a 32-year-old suspected drug trafficker based in Liberia, Maduabuchi Chinedu, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja with 9.30 kilograms of cocaine worth over N2.7billion in street value. He was arrested during an inward joint search of Ethiopian ...
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USA Nigeria
Federal Govt Canvasses Involvement Of States In AfCFTA Implentation Plan
Minister of industry, trade and investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, said for Nigeria to succeed in AfCFTA, state governments must be actively involved. Adebayo who stated this at the AfCFTA Subnational Strategy Workshop, with the theme: “Creating Economically Viable Communities,” said it has become very important to be closer to subnational ...
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Nigeria
Federal Govt, LUTH Commend Airtel For Investing In Quality Healthcare Delivery
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie E. Ehanire, has commended a leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, for its consistent investments in the health sector and for partnering with government at various levels to revamp the relevant institutions as well as deepen access to quality and affordable healthcare in Nigeria. ...
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Nigeria
‘Insecurity, COVID-19 Responsible For Economic Downturn In Nigeria’
An economist and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Saka Ibrahim Ominiwe, has blamed the present harsh economic situation in the country on insecurity, COVID-19 and naira devaluation. Speaking in an interview with LEADERSHIP in Ibadan, Oyo State, he said the nation’s economy is experiencing galloping or hyperinflation. ...
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Turchia
Israel to join major treaty on violence against women, but with caveats for foreign women
Israel plans to sign the Istanbul Convention, a major step in fighting violence against women. But the interior minister, who does not want to turn gender-based violence into justification for residency, has her own terms
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Tunisia
Tunisia: Apia - 2,562 Agricultural Investment Operations Approved in First Ten Months of 2021
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Figures released by the Agricultural Investment Promotion Agency (French: APIA) show 2,562 operations amounting to 391.9 million dinars (MD) were approved over the first ten months of 2021, posting a 18.4% rise in value compared to the same period in 2020. These investments will help ...
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Tunisia
Tunisia: Minister of Economy Meets Board Chairman of Libyan Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Privatisation
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Economy and Planning, Samir Saied and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Privatisation Jamel Ali discussed at a meeting Wednesday in Tunis the scope of progress in the creation of free trade areas between ...