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Nigeria Finlandia
BUA, Wartsila Oy Partner On 70mw Gas Power Plant
BUA has signed yet another agreement with Wartsila Oy of Finland for the construction of a 70megawatts dual-fuel power plant for its BUA Cement Obu Line 3 project in Edo State, Southern Nigeria. This agreement was signed between both companies at a ceremony in Abuja presided over by the Deputy ...
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Nigeria
Lagos Stakeholders To Tackle Workplace Violence Against Women
A group, the African Women on Board (AWB) and other stakeholders in public and private sectors of the economy have concluded plans to hold talks on work place violence against women today in Lagos State. The programme, organised in partnership with the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos ...
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USA Nigeria
Federal Govt Charges States To Domesticate Gender-based Violence Laws
Federal government has asked states yet to domesticate the law on violence against persons to do so without further delay. The minister of women affairs and social development, Pauline Tallen, stated this at the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) yesterday at an event to mark the International Day for the Elimination ...
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Nigeria Emirati Arabi Uniti
Samsung Receives Forbes Award, Says Nigeria Is Investment Hub
Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria (SHIN) has received the Forbes’ Best of Africa Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities Development Award in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Speaking at the Forbes Oil and Gas Roundtable session of the Africa-UAE Trade Investment Forum on November 21, SHIN, representative Mr. Youngkwon Lee appreciated Nigeria’s ...
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Nigeria
At His Father’s Service
There is a young man in Nigeria who is all about his father’s thriving business. His name is Mr. Babajide Akeredolu, son of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. His father has decided to set up a seat of nepotism right by himself, for his son – whatever anyone thinks. ...
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USA Nigeria
Nigeria Must Bring Down Trade Barriers For AfCFTA Success – NGF
Governors of the 36 states of the federation have said for Nigeria to overcome challenges that would come with African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) , it needs to maintain its leading position in Africa’s integration by bringing down ideological limitations and artificial trade barriers. Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ ...
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Qatar
Diamond agreement brings Israel and Qatar closer
Qatar plans a free trade zone for diamonds and gold, and needed Israeli consent to join the countries entitled to trade in diamonds.
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Emirati Arabi Uniti
After NSO scandal, Israel slashes list of countries that can buy cyber tech, report says
Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist reports that the cyber export list has shrunk from 102 countries to 37, and now excludes NSO customers like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Mexico
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Brasile Colombia
Colombia’s exports to FTA countries have grown 9.9% on average each year
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia's exports between 2005 and 2020 to countries with which it has trade agreements in force registered an average annual growth of 9.9% in value and 17% in volume. Meanwhile, when taking into account the world in general, the increase in these exports was 2.6% ...
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Brasile USA Ecuador
Bananas and shrimp, two pillars of Ecuador’s economy, get stuck in the global logistics crisis
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Ecuador lives from selling bananas and shrimp to the world, but a critical link in the production chain has been loosened with the global logistics crisis. The lack of containers interferes in the production and export process of the two economic pillars of the country, ...