Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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CSOs Condemn Blackmail Of FG, CBN
A Coalition of civil society group in Abuja has condemned the recent attacks on both the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria as it drummed support for policies of the government particularly on current foreign exchange policy. Backing the CBN decision to restrict access to foreign exchange to ...
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We Are Taking Nigeria Back To The Top In Cocoa – Ogbeh
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has described as embarrassing the downgrade of Nigeria in the global cocoa business. To revive the industry, however, he disclosed that a re-launch will be done early this year as part of activities to bring cocoa back to public consciousness. ...
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Pakistan-Nigeria Cooperation At Highest Point – Foreign Minister
Pakistani foreign minister,Syed Tariq Fatemi has revealed that the ties between Pakistan and Nigeria had moved beyond commercial and economic gains to defence cooperation. Speaking with LEADERSHIP in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, Fatemi said that the recent purchase of 10 Pakistani – made Trainer Aircraft by the Nigerian ...
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SANs Tackle US, NDLEA Over Kashamu
Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), Lateef Fagbemi, Alex Izinyon and Akin Olujimi, yesterday described as illegal any attempt to extradite Senator Buruji Kashamu. Fagebmi, Izinyon and Olujimi, in a joint statement, said the United States and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) would be overstepping their bounds by ...
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Nigeria’s Ezekiel Bassey joins Barcelona
Nigeria’s Ezekiel Bassey has joined Barcelona B squad on loan till the end of the season as the side chase promotion to the Segunda División. Bassey, a winger who plies his trade with Enyimba International, is Barcelona second signing of deadline day after Uruguayan defender Santiago Bueno joined the Catalan club ...
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USAID supports Nigeria’s agriculture sector with $600m yearly
The United States Agency for International Development’s office in Nigeria, on Tuesday announced that it supported the development of Nigeria’s agriculture sector with $600m (about N183bn) annually. USAID’s Mission Director in Nigeria, Mr. Michael Harvey, made the announcement in on the sidelines the inauguration of a new agricultural private sector ...
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Journey man Akpom joins Brighton
Nigeria born Chuba Akpom has joined Championship leaders Brighton on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season. The 21-year-old striker has enjoyed loan spells at Brentford, Coventry and Nottingham Forest in his fledgling career and helped Hull to promotion back to the Premier League last season, ...
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Amina loses African Union Commission chair vote to Chad's Mahamat
Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed has lost the election for African Union Commission chairperson to Chad’s Moussa Mahamat. Amina, 56, lost to Mahamat after heads of state voted in the seventh round. Kenya garnered 27 votes and Chad 26, while one country abstained in the fifth round In the sixth ...
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Former IEBC bosses to get diplomatic jobs
The nine former IEBC commissioners ejected from office under a cloud could land lucrative ambassadorial postings. This would be a yet another gift — part of the deal — to Issack Hassan's team who got packages estimated at Sh330 million each for their early exit. There was a national consensus ...
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Has CBN’s forex restriction on 41 items helped local industries?
The restriction of foreign exchange on the importation of 41 items by the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria has not been helpful generally in the industry. To start with, we have had several engagements with the Federal Government on the list of the 41 items. Our position ...
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Reps to probe corruption allegations at NAICOM
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The leadership of the House of Representatives has mandated its joint committee on Insurance and Actuarial Matters; Finance and Labour; Employment and Productivity to commence investigations into the protracted face-off between the management of the National Insurance Commission and the workers’ union. The workers, under the aegis ...
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Market posts N38bn loss as 21 stocks tumble
Opeyemi Soyoye The Lagos State Government said on Monday that it would partner Service City and Microsoft to create a platform to support operators of small and medium-scaled enterprises and artisans in the state. The Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, spoke at the Service City/Microsoft Digital Literacy ...
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LASG creates platform to support SMEs, artisans
Opeyemi Soyoye The Lagos State Government said on Monday that it would partner Service City and Microsoft to create a platform to support operators of small and medium-scaled enterprises and artisans in the state. The Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, spoke at the Service City/Microsoft Digital Literacy ...
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Bankole, Obanikoro, Okupe, others meet over S’West economy
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro; and a former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe; were among members of the Yoruba Patriots Movement that met behind closed ...
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Comply with stamp duty ruling, NECA tells CBN
Ife Ogunfuwa The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association has expressed concern over the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria to comply with the Court of Appeal’s ruling directing all Deposit Money Banks to discontinue charging N50 on every deposit into current accounts above N1,000. The employers’ group, in a statement ...
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CBN, AGF trade blame over oil bloc account
• House summons Kupolokun WHO has the records of Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 257’s proceeds? At the public hearing on the investigation of $22billion OPLs and Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) conducted yesterday by the Gideon Gwani-led ad hoc Committee, the Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN ) and the Office ...
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Trump defends travel ban as Obama backs protests
Business giants kick 1.3m sign petition in UK against president Former United States President Barack Obama yesterday gave his backing to the global protests against the travel ban by President Donald Trump. Citizens of seven mainly-Muslim countries have been banned from entering the United States for 90 days while refugees ...
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Saudi Arabia, UNIABUJA To Collaborate On Peace Studies
The University of Abuja and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are to work together on programmes that seek to boost academic learning, research, and the promotion of world peace. According to a statement signed and made available to LEADERSHIP by the deputy registrar (Information and Publications), Waziri Garba, yesterday in ...
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Leveraging On ICT For Economic Diversification
The diversification of the Nigeria economy has become imperative in the face of dwindling revenue from the oil sector. Stakeholders in the Information and communication technology (ICT ) sector posit that the sector provides a veritable option for diversifying the nation’s economy because it has the added advantage of being ...
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Nigeria’s Crude Export To Rise As Forcados Pipeline Reopens
Nigeria’s oil export will receive a boost as a major export facility, Trans Forcados Pipeline which was shut for most of 2016 is set to be reopened. Seplat Chief Executive, Austin Avuru, said the pipeline, operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), would reopen no later than the second ...
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Local, Foreign Airlines Rake In N330bn In 2016 Q3
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has put the amount of ticket proceeds by foreign and local airlines operating in Nigeria to the tune of N330, 548,324,796.84 billion in the first nine months of 2016. The figure was disclosed by the director-general of NCAA, Captain Mukhtar Usman yesterday in a ...