All posts tagged "headline"

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  Farmers get 32,000 hybrid plantain/banana varieties

  Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development  has distributed over 32,000 disease free improved varieties of Plantain/Banana suckers to about 1000farmers in four pilot States in  the country. The benefitting States include Abia, Delta,...

  • Posted November 1, 2013
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  Stakeholders list conditions to boost NSE listing by 2018

  Stakeholders in the capital market on Wednesday called for sustained confidence building, as a primary condition for achieving the target of 500 listed firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) by 2018. They also called for legislation requiring...

  • Posted November 1, 2013
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  Norway to promote local content in Nigeria’s maritime, oil sector

  Norway has entered into a strategic partnership with PEM Offshore to promote local content in the Nigerian maritime and oil and gas sector. Speaking during a visit to the proposed site for the PEM Offshore Simulation and...

  • Posted November 1, 2013
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  Nigeria’s inclusion to BRICS countries requires strong industrial sector — MAN

  The quest of having Nigeria included in the league of BRICS countries will remain a mirage without a virile productive sector. The out-going chairman, Manufactucturers Association of Nigeria, MAN Apapa branch, Mr. John Aluya, made the remark...

  • Posted November 1, 2013
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  Evans resigns as Etisalat CEO

  Steven Evans has resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian subsidiary of Emirates Telecommunications Corporation operating as Etisalat in the country. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Evans resigned last month and returned home to the United...

  • Posted November 1, 2013
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  Panic as thunder sets NNPC depot on fire

  Fire on Wednesday engulfed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation deport in the Pogo area of Minna and consumed one of the storage tanks before it was brought under control Although the cause of the fire was not...

  • Posted October 31, 2013
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  World Bank ranks Nigeria 122nd best place to start business

  The World Bank has ranked Nigeria 147th among the best places for doing business. It also ranked the country as the 122nd for best countries to start a business. The report released, yesterday, said Nigeria’s low ranking...

  • Posted October 31, 2013
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  MSMEs contribute 47% to Nigeria’s GDP – SMEDAN

  THE Director General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, Bature Masari, has said that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MSMEs contributes 46.54 percent to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP. Masari made this disclosure...

  • Posted October 31, 2013
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  Auditor-general queries Reps committee over N31m NERC donation

  There were revelations on Tuesday that the House of Representatives Committee on Power collected N31m from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to organise a training workshop for members but did not account for the money. The Committee...

  • Posted October 31, 2013
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  Senate to set timetable for PIB passage

  The Senate has reiterated its commitment to the Petroleum Industry Bill, which has been caught up in the web of ethnic and socio-political controversies in the past eight years. The President of the Senate, David Mark, while...

  • Posted October 31, 2013
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