• Nigeria

    Wike Assents To Judicial Officers Housing Scheme Bill

    Rivers State governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said the provision of personal homes to judicial officers of Rivers’ extraction will serve as good motivation to resist enticements of all forms capable of compromising the rectitude of their judicial functions. Wike stated this yesterday at the Government House, Port Harcourt, after ...

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    Fidelity Bank Seeks Private Sector Participation In Non-oil Export

    For developing countries such as Nigeria to accelerate economic growth, there needs to be greater private sector participation in  export sector. The divisional head, Export and Agriculture, Fidelity Bank, Isaiah Ndukwe, stated this at the just-concluded 11th edition of the Fidelity Bank Export Management Programme held in Lagos. The programme ...

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    NDIC Boss Charges Nigerians To Support Elders

    The managing director and chief executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr Bello Hassan, has stressed the need to consistently assist and uplift the elderly in recognition of their contribution and years of service to the nation. Hassan, who joined the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo ...

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    Duties: Customs Threatens To Impound 29 Jets After 14-day Ultimatum

    The Nigeria Custom Service has said it would impound 29 privately owned aircraft in the country if the owners and their representatives fail to take advantage of the 14-day ultimatum given them to rectify issues with regard to payment of customs duty. Customs had in the past invited owners of ...

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    Africa Shipper’s Council Decries High Freight Charges

    The union of African Shippers’ Councils (UASC) has decried what it described as unfair shipping surcharges and high local shipping charges on the economies of West and Central Africa. Speaking at a UASC meeting / mini-sensitisation workshop on African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in Abuja, the minister of transportation, ...

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    Emefiele Bags Juris Law Award, Says BOFIA Will Change Banking Operations

    Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has been awarded the Juris Law award by the Juris Law Office in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute. The award was given to Mr Emefiele yesterday in Abuja for his support towards the development of law for economic growth in ...

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    NACCIMA Women Group Gets N25m Advocacy Support From NEPC

    In recognition of the impact of the advocacy activities of the National Association of Chambers Of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) Business Women Group (NAWORG) in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment of women since 2004, the federal government through the Nigeria Export Promotion Council has awarded the group ...

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    FG To Create 500,000 Export-linked Jobs Annually

    The federal government has said it plans to add $150 billion to the nation’s foreign reserves cumulatively from non-oil exports over the next few years. Minister of state, budget and national planning, Prince Clem Agba, gave the assurance in Abuja yesterday during a press briefing on the forthcoming Nigerian industrialisation ...

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    ABCON Advocates Measures To Curb Naira Depreciation

    Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has advocated measures to curb the continued depreciation of the naira. The measures were contained in the ABCON Quarterly Economic Review for the 3rd quarter of the year (Q3’21). ABCON noted that recent developments in the foreign exchange market have   proved ...

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    30% Of Nigeria’s Forex Spent On Fuel imports – SGF

    Secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha has said up to 30 percent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange is spent on petroleum imports. He stated this yesterday in his closing remarks at the Mid-Term Ministerial Performance Review Retreat Abuja, at the Presidential Villa. He said, “Both the fiscal ...