• Senegal

    Vers une conférence nationale des femmes scientifiques et ingénieurs

    Dakar, 18 fév (APS) - L'Association des femmes pour la promotion des sciences et technologies du Sénégal (AFSTech/Sénégal) compte organiser ''à court terme'' une conférence nationale des femmes scientifiques et ingénieurs pour la mise en place d'un réseau international. Dakar, 18 fév (APS) - L'Association des femmes pour la promotion ...

  • Sudafrica Nigeria

    FG orders missions to probe attacks on Nigerians in S’Africa

    John Ameh and Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian High Commission and consulate in Pretoria and Johannesburg to investigate the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, explained that the findings of the probe would be ...

  • Ghana Nigeria

    Sanusi plans law barring poor Kano men from polygamy

    The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says he is on the verge of proposing a law which will restrict poor men in the emirate from marrying many wives. Sanusi said this in Abuja on Sunday at the 50th anniversary of the death of Ambasador Isa Wali, a former Nigerian ...

  • USA Nigeria

    $500m Eurobond: For whose benefit?

    Economic Renaissance by Henry Boyo lesleba@lesleba.com 08052201997 The Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga and his entourage have planned roadshows traversing markets in Europe and the United States to promote Nigeria’s credit worthiness and facilitate popular subscription to a proposed $500m/Euro loan. It will be irrational for anyone to embark on a ...

  • Nigeria

    Jubilee-Life unveils rent-to-own for business owners

    Jubilee-Life Mortgage Bank Limited has unveiled an initiative known as ‘rent-to-own your shop’ for business owners and market women. According to the firm, the initiative was recently inaugurated by the Lagos State Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Gbolahan Lawal, in Ijaiye-Ojokoro, where a modern complex made up of 336 lock-up shops ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Task force uncovers baby factory in Plateau

    Ojogbane Audu, Jos operatives of Operation Safe Haven, the Special Task Force deployed to restore law and order in Plateau and Bauchi states, uncovered a baby factory in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Saturday. Our correspondent gathered that the discovery was made possible through a tip-off by residents, who ...

  • Nigeria

    Osinbajo to declare building material trade expo open

    The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is expected to declare the first ‘Made-in-Nigeria Building Material Trade Expo’ in Lagos, open, the organiser has said. The organiser and publisher of Global Homes Magazine, Mrs. Roni Akins, said in a statement that the event, with theme: ‘Buy Nigeria to build Nigeria’, would ...

  • Nigeria

    Averting the next bailout

    •The problem is not funds per se; government must make the business environment friendly NOTHING exemplifies the dilemma facing the Federal Government than its latest round of lifelines to the two beleaguered but key sectors of textile/garment and aviation. We refer to the latest package of N51 billion in the ...

  • Nigeria

    Compulsory Insurance Alone Can’t Drive Penetration – IT Expert

    The Managing Director of Pinet Informatics, Engr. Lanre Ajayi, has said Nigerians must be persuaded to buy insurance products and services and not by compulsion as it is being done in the insurance industry, through the enforcement of compulsory insurances. Speaking in Lagos last week, Ajayi said people must see ...

  • Nigeria

    Growing The Economy Through Forex Allocation

    While Nigeria faces shortage of foreign exchange, it is essential that critical sectors of the economy that would spur growth and development have access to dollars in order to speed up the recovery of the the nation’s economy. Last year, Nigeria was officially said to be in recession although the ...