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Nigeria
Nigeria’ll recover from recession this year, NSE predicts
Stanley Opara The Nigerian Stock Exchanges has expressed optimism that the country’s economy will recover from its current recession this year with a modest Gross Domestic Product growth forecast of 0.6 per cent. The recovery, according to the bourse, will be driven by the vigour of fiscal policy implementation, with ...
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USA Nigeria
Top four places to do business in Nigeria
IFE OGUNFUWA identifies some states with top business investment opportunities Nigeria is a home to people from diverse tribe and one of the top 10 fastest growing countries in the world. Nigerians are known for their resourcefulness, resilience, and they offer good returns on investments. The country is full of ...
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USA
Retraining low-skilled workers
IMAGINE YOU ARE a 45-year-old long-distance lorry driver. You never enjoyed school and left as soon as you could, with a smattering of qualifications and no great love of learning. The job is tiring and solitary, but it does at least seem to offer decent job security: driver shortages are ...
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USA
Turning qualifications into jobs
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS designed to act as a slipway, launching students into the wider world in the expectation that the currents will guide them into a job. In practice, many people get stuck in the doldrums because employers demand evidence of specific experience even from entry-level candidates. Whether this counts ...
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USA Australia Regno Unito
Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative
THE RECEPTION AREA contains a segment of a decommissioned Underground train carriage, where visitors wait to be collected. The surfaces are wood and glass. In each room the talk is of code, web development and data science. At first sight the London office of General Assembly looks like that of ...
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Nigeria
Importation Of Lottery Technology Costs Nigeria N25bn Annually
Despite efforts by the federal government to conserve scarce foreign exchange, facts have emerged that operators of lottery business in Nigeria annually spend an average of N25 billion to acquire, deploy and maintain lottery technology. Disclosing this in Lagos, managing director and CEO of Lotgrand, operator of Grandlotto Yellow Terminal ...
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Nigeria
Kwankwaso’s Foreign Scholarship Scheme Fraud, Says Gov Ganduje
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has alleged that the overseas scholarship scheme of the immediate past administration of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in the state was a fraud, carried out with the connivance of a contractor. He argued that instead of following due process to secure admissions for the students, ...
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Taiwan Nigeria
Nigeria Did Not Cut Ties With Taiwan- Presidency
The Presidency has dismissed incorrect media reports to the effect 1. Nigeria has cut ties with Taiwan. In a statement by the senior special assistant media to the President, Garba Shehu said the correct position is that the official relationship between Nigeria and Taiwan has been at the level of ...
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Taiwan Nigeria
Nigeria Did Not Cut Ties With Taiwan – Presidency
The Presidency has dismissed incorrect media reports to the effect that Nigeria has cut ties with Taiwan. In a statement by the senior special assistant media to the president, Garba Shehu said the correct position is that the official relationship between Nigeria and Taiwan has been at the level of ...
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USA Nigeria
Nigeria May Lose Another $550m Abacha’s Loot To US – Sagay
The chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has disclosed that Nigeria risked losing another $550m recovered from the Abacha family to the government of United States. Speaking during a media parley on asset recovery jointly organised by PACAC and Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign ...