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Nigeria: 'Enabling Environment Will Spur Rapid Devt'

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
Governments at all levels in Nigeria have been called upon to create an enabling environment for the citizens to actualise themselves and partake fully of the endowments nature has bestowed on the country.


Nigeria: FRSC Set to Enforce Use of Helmet

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has concluded plans to introduce the use of crash helmets for motorcyclists and their passengers from next year.

Ghana: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo At IEA Part II

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
To modernise our society, we need to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public services while improving the quality of our lives.

Ghana: Ghana Tours Resumes Operations in Partnership With Air Namibia

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
Ghana Tours (Meridian Africa Ltd), air travel organisers in Ghana has announced the resumption of its operations on the Accra-London-Accra route from Friday 11th July, 2008.


Nigeria: FGN Bond Records N4 Trillion Turnover - Report

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
BARELY 18 months into the market, the secondary Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bond has recorded a turnover of N4 trillion in 30,000 deals, according to the Debt Management Office (DMO).

Nigeria: Govt Releases N17.7 Million UNFPA Partnership Fund

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
Nasarawa State government yesterday at the United Nations building in Abuja, released N17.7 million as its counterpart fund, to finance some projects undertook by United Nations Fund for Population Agency (UNFPA).

Nigeria: River Niger Bridge May Collapse Soon

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
The Permanent Secretary in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, yesterday said if something was not done urgently, the River Niger Bridge in Anambra State may collapse soon.

Nigeria: Kosofe Inaugurates Ogudu-Ojota Solar Project

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
The Executive Secretary of Kosofe Local Government Area, Mr. Ademuyiwa Adedeji, has flagged off the Ogudu-Ojota Solar Power Street Lights Project with a promise that when completed it will further develop the area.

Nigeria: 'New ID Card Scheme to Gulp N30 Billion'

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
A new identity card management scheme, which will commence by the end of the year is to cost about N30 billion, the Director-General /Chief Executive Officer of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Chris Onyem-enam, said yesterday.

Nigeria: Union of Teachers, Labor Congress Picket Private Schools

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday reached an agreement with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Civil Society Organisations on how to join forces to picket private schools in order to get them involved in the ongoing national strike.

Nigeria: Niger Delta Crisis Needs Foreign Intervention

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
Bayelsa State government yesterday sought intervention of the international community in the resolution of the protracted crisis in the Niger Delta region.

Nigeria: Shell's Bonga Field Yet to Resume Full Production

02.07.2008 18:37    allafrica.com
Oil production at the Royal Dutch Shell's Bonga field is yet to return to full capacity after the recent recent attack on the facility be the dreaded Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.

Nigeria: MTN Buys SA Telecom Firm, May Seal $70 Billion Rcom Deal

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
IN it's avowed commitment to become a global leading telecom player, Africa's biggest mobile provider, the MTN Group of South Africa last Friday announced it had entered into an agreement with Verizon Business, to acquire 100 per cent of Verizon

Nigeria: Global Installed PCs to Hit 2 Billion By 2014 - Studies

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
While Nigerian Personal Computers, (PCs) market continues to grow at geometric progression as a result of high demand, analysts house, Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company has predicted that the number of installed PCs around the

Nigeria: Niger Delta Needs Infrastructural Blueprint - Oseya

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
DIRECTOR of the Delta Youth Initiative, Mr. Franklin Oseya says what Niger-Deltans need now is a definite blueprint on the infrastructural turn around of the Niger-Delta area, reminiscence of Abuja and not the proposed Niger-Delta Summit that will turn out

Nigeria: Country and Globalization

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
During his first term (1999-2003), President Obasanjo and his aides repeatedly justified his many trips overseas as efforts to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the country.

Nigeria: Banking Sector Drives NSE Turnover By 58 Percent

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
Equity trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) was driven yesterday by activity in the Banking sub-sector, accounting for 58.45 per cent of the market turnover.

Nigeria: NCC Assures Consumers of Reduction in Sms Tariff

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
THE Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Ernest Ndukwe, yesterday assured consumers that plans were underway to reduce SMS tariff by GSM operators.

Nigeria: Government and People Must Work Together to Reduce Digitalisation Cost - NBC Boss

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
Recently, Vanguard's Asst. Editor, Communications, Okoh Aihe, had a chance encounter with Engr Yomi Bolarinwa, acting Director - General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC.

Nigeria: FCTA to Train 450 NSCDC Staff in Traffic Control

02.07.2008 12:41    allafrica.com
FCT Minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar said Monday that the FCTA is currently training 450 officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Traffic Control cum Parking Enforcement in the Federal Capital Territory.

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