However, the chairperson of NLC in Lagos State, Comrade Funmi Sessi, insisted that the presence of the young men constituted a security threat in the state, adding that bringing them also violated labour laws.
The Bank of Agriculture (BoA) wants to raise N1.5 trillion (approximately $1 billion) in a major recapitalisation drive aimed at improving liquidity and expanding its lending capacity to the nation’s agricultural sector. In a statement, BoA Managing Director, Mr. Ayo Sotinrin, said the fund will be channeled towards financing key agricultural value chains, addressing infrastructure…
Leading the debate, Senator Ndubueze said that the bill sought to make it mandatory for Ministries, Departments and Agencies to give priorities to local manufacturers and indigenous companies in the procurement of goods and services
“My shop practically lives on these platforms, especially Instagram,” Lagos-based baker Fatima Tunde said. “If it’s gone, I’m out of business.”
“President Tinubu has proposed that we will no longer just sit there and allow importation to come into this country where there is the capacity for production of these commodities locally.”
Brazil leads in South America with $300 billion in manufacturing value.
Its industrial economy is anchored by automotive production, food processing, chemicals, and aerospace, particularly through companies like Embraer.
The President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, says he has accepted his appointment to the World Bank’s Private Sector Investment Lab, joining a select group of global business leaders tasked with driving investment and job creation in emerging economies. In 2023, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, co-chaired the Private…
Digital photography is much more enduring than its predecessor, analogue photography, but, at least when you expose a roll of old film to the light, the worst you can do is lose a week’s worth of holiday photos or a day’s worth of wedding shots that can never be replaced. When a plastic SD memory…
The Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has disbursed $50 billion for the execution of various projects in Nigeria in the last 19 years. The President of the bank, Prof. Benedict Oramah, disclosed this during the recently commissioned Afreximbank Africa Trade Centre, AATC, in Abuja, where he also reaffirmed the Bank’s vision to dismantle trade barriers and…
The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has unveiled its different brands of made-in-Nigeria products in Katsina State as part of efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s industrial sector and reduce reliance on imports. The products, which include a Hilux vehicle, laptops, phones, batteries, smart TV, microwaves, water dispensers, hydraulic equipment, were unveiled at the…
