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Monday, January 6th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading champion of entrepreneurship, is pleased to announce that applications for its 2025 Entrepreneurship Programmes are now open. Aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from across Africa are invited to apply for a chance to receive world-class training, expert mentoring, and non-refundable seed capital funding to scale their […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government’s deficit spending surged by 28 per cent, Year-On-Year to N12.1 trillion in the first ten months of 2024. An analysis of data in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Monthly Economic Reports, showed that the increase was from N9.8 trillion recorded in the same period of 2023. This further […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The stock market started the year on a strong note, delivering an impressive N155 billion profit to investors on the first trading day. The positive performance was driven primarily by gains in Tier-one banking stocks, namely, Zenith Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and FBN Holdings, Access Corporation, among other equities. Specifically, […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO Aviance) says it has sealed the extension of handling contracts with three international carriers. The company’s Group Managing Director, Mr Indranil Gupta, made this known in a statement on Monday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the international carriers are Emirates, […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that the restart of operation at the Warri Refinery on Monday has brought lots of joy to him and Nigerians. Bayo Onanuga, the spokesperson of Tinubu, made this known in a statement on Monday as he celebrated the kickoff of the state-owned refinery after years of […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 170 young graduates have benefitted from the NCDMB/PETAN/SPDC JV Graduate Internship programme, in which they were attached to indigenous technical oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors for hands-on experience. This was revealed in a statement issued on Monday and signed by Shell Petroleum Development Company of […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 125, 000 barrels per day Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company (WRPC) in Warri, Delta State is now up and running. This was disclosed by the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari during a tour of the facility on Monday. Before the tour of […]
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Friday, December 27th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A policy and legal expert, Clement Nwankwo, has argued that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other revenue-collecting agencies of government should not be allowed to retain any percentage of the taxes collected on behalf of the government aside from their annual budgetary allocations. Nwankwo, who is the Executive Director of the […]
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Monday, December 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The economy grew by 3.46 per cent in Q32024, with output reaching ₦20.115 trillion, up from 3.19 per cent (₦18.285 trillion) in Q2 2024, driven mainly by the non-oil sector. This was revealed in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s newly released Economic Report for the third quarter of 2024. The report said […]
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Friday, December 20th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria has said businesses, while expressing optimism about the macroeconomic environment, have projected further depreciation of the naira this month and the first three months of 2025. In its Business Expectation Survey Report for November 2024, noted that firms’ outlook on the volume of business activities, financial conditions, […]
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Friday, December 20th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS), has collected a total of N252.83 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2024. The acting Executive Chairman of the service, Mr Michael Ango, made this known at the 2024 end of year media parley, in Abuja on Thursday. Ango said that the amount, collected […]
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
…Say 1965 facility modernized into a state-of-the-art plant, hailed as a significant achievement (African Examiner) – Amid ongoing scepticism and criticism surrounding the revamp of the Port Harcourt Refinery, former Group Managing Directors (GMDs) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) have commended the efforts of the current management team, led by Mr. […]
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – President Bola Tinubu has set a N1500/dollar target in the 2025 Appropriation Bill presented to the joint session of the 10th National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday. According to him, the target was to enable the Federal Government to ensure the smooth implementation of the 2025 budget. This marks a reduction of […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has commended Shell and its partners’ announcement of the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Bonga North Deep Offshore Field. According to a press statement issued on and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanugqa, this landmark development, Nigeria’s first deepwater oil project […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has announced a final investment decision (FID) on Bonga North, a deep-water project off the coast of Nigeria. Bonga North will be a subsea tie-back to the Shell-operated Bonga Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility which Shell operates […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Poultry farmers in Oyo State have expressed concern over the potential decline in chicken sales during the forthcoming Christmas season. The chairman, Livestock and Poultry Farmers Union (LPFU), Oyo State Chapter, Mr Josiah Adebola, aired his worries on Sunday in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan. Adebola […]
Posted by Babatunde Okeowo
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Monday, December 16th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) group is to launch the Debt Management Forum for Africa (DeMFA). DeMFA is a new platform aimed at promoting high-level dialogue on debt productivity and sustainability across the continent. A statement by the bank on Sunday added that the launch will take place on Monday and Tuesday […]
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Sunday, December 15th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Aisha Rimi, has said that the commission is committed to several initiatives aimed at driving further economic growth through investment. According to her, the initiatives align with the 8-Point agenda of President Bola Tinubu, stressing that they are designed to accelerate Nigeria’s progress […]
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Thursday, December 12th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Government and the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, CWEIC, on Thursday, signed a strategic partnership agreement that would accelerate trade and investment inflow to the state. This was even as Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State was named a co-chair of the Governors Roundtable at the 2025 edition of […]
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Thursday, December 12th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was a moment of excitement for the 17 host communities to Dangote Cement, Ibese Plant in Ogun State as the management reeled out 25 multi-million Naira Social Investment projects successfully executed for the people of the communities in the outgoing 2024 year, with an assurance of bigger investment projects in 2025. […]
