• Ecuador

    Korea Airports Corporation close to signing a deal to operate airport in Ecuador

    Korea Airports Corporation said Friday that it is close to signing a business deal with the Ecuadorian government to operate Manta Airport. A negotiation team is currently visiting Ecuador for talks to finalize the deal, the corporation said. The d

  • Nigeria

    Customs FOU Zone’B’ Siezes 98 Contrabands Worth Over N390m DPV

    The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operative Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ with headquarters in Kaduna has made 98 siezures of various prohibited Items within 30th September – 16th November, 2021 worth N390,992,674.8 Duty Paid Value (DPV). In the same vein, 393,900 unregistered pregabalin capsules, 80 bottles of codeine syrup and ...

  • Nigeria

    Customs Beams Searchlight On Exporters Over Irregularities

    The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Wednesday, said it had shifted focus from import to identifying irregularities in export trade. Speaking when executive members of the Shipping Correspondents Association of Nigeria (SCAN) paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Lagos, the coordinator of the comptroller-general Strike Force Unit, ...

  • Nigeria

    Federal Govt’s Unpaid Pension Liabilities Stand At N90.1bn

    Despite recent efforts to cut the lump sum of inherited liabilities under the Defined Benefits Scheme, official data has showed that the federal government is still owing an accrued pension arrears of N90.1 billion unfunded liabilities to pensioners of some agencies of the government. The agencies affected are: Nigeria Re-Insurance ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria Needs To Invest N1.9trn Annually On Sanitation – UNICEF

    As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s World Toilet Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that the country needs to invest 1.30 per cent of its GDP per year ($5.3 billion or N1.9 trillion) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets ...

  • Nigeria

    MTN Partners With Landafrique On High-speed Internet Services

    In its continued commitment to enhancing broadband access and internet penetration nationwide, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has entered into a partnership with Landafrique Nigeria Limited to deploy fibre-optic infrastructure connecting homes and businesses in Agbara industrial Estate, Ogun State. This is following the installation of the same infrastructure in Dakkada ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA Chairman Visits Governor Lalong, Decries Ravaging Effects Of Drugs

    The chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Gen. Buba Marwa, rtd., has visited Plateau State governor, Simon Bako Lalong, at the Government House, Rayfield Jos, where he lamented the ravaging effects of drug abuse on the society, particularly violent crimes. Marwa, who was on a courtesy visit to ...

  • Nigeria

    FCT NUT Calls Off Warning Strike

    Teachers of primary and government secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have called off the five- day warning strike which started yesterday. This followed a promise by the FCT minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, to pay their arrears of ...

  • Nigeria

    Sen Uba Sani Elated As Buhari Signs AMCON Bill Into Law

    Senator Uba Sani of Kaduna Central has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for signing into law, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment No. 3) Bill, 2021, saying the new Act will remove obstacles to the smooth operation of AMCON and safeguard the banking sector and the economy in trying times. ...

  • Tunisia

    Tunisia: Third Tranche of Bond Loan Issue - 622.5 Md Raised

    [Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The value of the third tranche of the national bond issue amounted to 622.5 million dinars, meaning 166% of the initially announced amount (between 350 and 400 million dinars), the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.