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Nigeria
WTO’s trade agreement will boost exports – Awolowo
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The coming into force of the World Trade Organisation’s Trade Facilitation Agreement last week will increase the volume of export of non-oil products from Nigeria to other countries, the Executive Director/Chief Executive, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Mr. Segun Awolowo, has said. Awolowo stated this on Monday in ...
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Nigeria
NACCIMA to promote trade, investment with N1.5bn centre
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has commenced the construction of a N1.5bn centre that will help it to facilitate trade, investment and promotion of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise sector of the economy. The centre, which is expected to be ...
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Nigeria
Naira gains more as CBN pumps in $180m
In less than one week, the naira has gained over N85 against the dollar – thanks to the increased liquidity in the foreign exchange market. The currency exchanged for N430 to the greenback yesterday at the parallel market. It was N460 to the dollar at the weekend. The Central Bank ...
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Nigeria
PDP crisis: Makarfi warns of breakdown of law and order
The blame game continued yesterday in the troubled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A faction of the main opposition blamed the reopening of its national secretariat for Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff on the police, which it accused of taking sides. Besides, the party accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of ...
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Nigeria
Lagos to crush, recycle 4000 seized Okada
•Bikes may be banned in Lekki, VI Over 4000 commercial motorcycles seized for flouting the Lagos State Traffic Law 2012 will be crushed and recycled, Police Commissioner, Fatia Owoseni said yesterday. The law prohibits Okada and tricycles also known as Keke Marwa from operating in at least 495 of the ...
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USA
Amina Mohammed Assumes Duty At UN Today
The immediate past Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, will be sworn-in today as the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations at the UN Headquarters in New York. Mohammed, who was appointed by the UN secretary-general, António Guterres on December 15, 2016 as his deputy, was supposed to assume office on ...
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USA
FG Adopts PPP Model For $20bn Niger Delta Gas Project
In what is called a ‘Gas Revolution,’ and following the renewed interactive engagements of the Federal Government with oil-producing communities in several states in the Niger Delta region, a plan to put in place a gas industrial park that is valued at about $20billion through a Public-Private Partnership model is ...
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Nigeria
Dollar To Crash Further As CBN Pumps Additional $180m To Banks
It became clearer in the forex market yesterday that Nigeria’s local currency, the naira, may be on a permanent journey back to its former value, put at less than N300 to the dollar. This is coming just as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released fresh $180 million into ...
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USA
FG Activates $20bn Ogidigben Gas Industrial Project In Niger Delta
In what is called a ‘Gas Revolution,’ and following the renewed interactive engagements of the Federal Government with oil-producing communities in several states in the Niger Delta region, a plan to put in place a gas industrial park that is valued at about $20 billion through a Public-Private Partnership model ...
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Nigeria
Economic Performance Of Every Nation Pointer To It’s Dev’t Strides – NSA
The National Security Adviser (NSA) Federal Republic of Nigeria Major General BM Monguno (Rtd) has said that the economic performance of every nation is a major pointer to its development stride. General Monguno stated this in his keynote address at an international conference on Defence, Security, Economy and Development in ...