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Nigeria slams BA, Virgin

13:27 18.11.2011 | 0 comments

Nigerian airport officials have fined British Airways $135-million and Virgin Atlantic $100-million amid a dispute over ticket prices, the country's civil aviation authority said on Thursday.
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Cassava flour for bread

13:25 18.11.2011 | 0 comments

Nigeria to save US$ 2.1 billion, using cassava flour for bread - Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adeshina, said if bakers adopt 50 per cent cassava flour inclusion in bread bakery, the country, which is the world's largest..
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How govts are killing local industries

15:22 26.10.2011 | 0 comments

The Kaduna state government has expended over N200 million for the purchase of 34 Toyota Camry cars for the 34 members of the State House of Assembly representing the 23 local government areas of the state, investigations by the Peoples..
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FG’s Fertiliser Subsidy Is Fraudulent – Sanusi

10:33 25.10.2011 | 0 comments

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, on Monday, said the subsidy on fertilisers to Nigerian farmers by the Federal Government is a fraud, saying that only about 11 per cent of the subsidised fertilisers get to..
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D8 Commission establishes Preferential Trade Agreement

13:51 06.07.2010 | 0 comments

The D8 Commission on Monday in Abuja established a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) to facilitate the improvement of investment and economic cooperation among member states.
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Nigeria cabinet dissolved

12:49 18.03.2010 | 0 comments

Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's acting president, has dissolved the country's cabinet, just a month after assuming executive powers.
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Clashes in Nigeria kill hundreds

06:07 08.03.2010 | 0 comments

According to witness and media reports, at least two hundred people in Nigeria have been killed after pastoralists and villagers near the city of Jos, which has been the source of repeated tension between Christians and Muslims.
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Nigeria signs 875-million-dollar railway deal with China

16:07 27.10.2009 | 0 comments

Nigeria on Monday signed a deal worth almost a billion dollars with a state-owned Chinese engineering firm to resuscitate part of its dilapidated railway system, the transport minister said.
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Vice President woos global investors in the Emirates

18:00 15.10.2009 | 0 comments

The Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has said that with Nigeria’s vast untapped resources in agriculture, agro-allied and solid mineral sectors, coupled with high prospects for massive and quick profits in petroleum and..
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