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Energy Shortages Cripple Businesses in Lagos
Despite being Africa’s leader oil exporter, Nigeria’s shambolic indigenous energy infrastructure is negatively affecting the country’s businesses.
Action Congress of Nigeria Promises to Offer Free And Compulsory Education If Elected
The Nigerian opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has promised to offer free and compulsory education if it takes power from the ruling PDP in the forthcoming elections.
World Bank to Invest $250m in Nigeria’s Special Agriculture Project
The World Bank is to invest N37.5 billion ($250 million) in the third phase of Nigeria’s special all-year-round agriculture project, FADAMA III, Mrs. Poonam Gupta, the Bank’s Country Programme Coordinator of the project, said on Saturday in Lagos. Gupta,...
Dance Guild of Nigeria Planning a Dance Carnival in Abuja As Part of Nigeria’s 50th Independence Anniversary
The Dance Guild of Nigeria (GOND) has said it will hold a dance carnival in Abuja in March as part of Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary which comes up on October 1, 2010. The Chairman of GOND, Mr. Steven James, told journalists on Tuesday in Lagos...
University Don Raises Alarm Over the Incorrect Use of English By Nigerians
A Nigerian university lecturer, Dr Adeyemi Daramola, has raised the alarm over the “inappropriate use of the English Language in the country.” Daramola, a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Lagos, said on Sunday...
Pan-African Hotel Group African Sun, Targets Investments in Botswana, Nigeria
Zimbabwean-based Pan-African hotel group, African Sun, has said that it planned to launch two new properties in Nigeria and Botswana this year as part of an expansion program that will see the total number of rooms raised to 8,500 by 2012. Pipeline projects...
Nigerian Government Commended for Installing New Scanning System At Airports
Nigerian aviation experts have commended the Nigerian government for installing the Total Body Imaging Scanning System at some of the nation’s airports. The experts said that the scanners would not only improve security at the airports, but also help...
Nigeria Earns $2b Revenue From Oil in Three Months
The new Director in charge of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Billy Aghah, says Nigeria earned N312 billion (about US$2 billion) from oil between July and September this year. Aghah told journalists on Thursday in Lagos that Nigeria’s...
