All posts tagged "headline"

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  Nigeria receives $23m grant from GEF for environmental projects

  Nigeria has received grants totalling 23 million dollars in four years from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), under its “Big Full Size” project funding, a desk officer, has said. Mrs Halima Mohammed, GEF’s Desk Officer in the...

  • Posted February 13, 2014
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  Power firms need to spend $23.9bn – BPE

  Power companies in the country require $23.9bn in capital expenditure over the next five years, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has said. Dikki said this at a forum in Abuja, according to a...

  • Posted February 13, 2014
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  FG sets N5tn revenue target for manufacturing sector

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said the Federal Government expected the manufacturing sector to earn about N5tn in revenue annually following the inauguration of the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan and the National Enterprise Development Programme. Jonathan, who...

  • Posted February 13, 2014
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  CBN introduces N132bn MSME development fund for women

  The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, has said that N132bn has been earmarked for providing financial services to women from the N220bn Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund. The amount earmarked...

  • Posted February 13, 2014
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  Global standards: African regulators seek greater role

  Capital market regulators in Africa and the Middle East have emphasised the need for them to play a greater role when it comes to setting global standards. The regulators made the call at the ongoing 32nd Africa/Middle...

  • Posted February 13, 2014
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  NEITI condemns missing $20bn oil revenue

  The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has expressed shock at the alleged non-remittance of $20bn oil revenue, attributing the development to the neglect of its audits and recommendations. The Chairman, NEITI, Mr. Ledum Mitee, who was at...

  • Posted February 12, 2014
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  Agric minister donates N10m to Plateau farmers

  The Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has donated N10 million to Plateau Fadama III Farmers’ to aid them in establishing Fadama Micro-finance Bank. The bank is a brain child of the Fadama III farmers...

  • Posted February 12, 2014
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  Coscharis partnership excites Rolls Royce

  Preparatory to the formal launch of Rolls Royce in Nigeria by May this year, Rolls Royce top officials were in Nigeria recently to access the level of work done by its Nigerian representative, Coscharis Motors. The visiting Rolls...

  • Posted February 12, 2014
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  Queues resurface as marketers disagree over fuel supply

  Queues by motorists resurfaced in some parts of Lagos on Monday over fears of an impending petrol scarcity. Though it could not be distinguished on Monday whether the queues were as a result of panic buying or...

  • Posted February 12, 2014
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  No substandard cement in the market – SON

  The Director-General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, has intervened in the controversy over the quality of the different grades of cement in the market, saying there is no substandard cement in the market, but that...

  • Posted February 12, 2014
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