The launch of the Guided Trade Initiative (#GTI) under #AfCFTA, by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, along with the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment #Doris Uzoka-Anite, and other top officials of the government.
▪︎Melaku Alebel, Luo Zhaohui, Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) and DG Gerd Müller. ▪︎ ETHIOPIA The Ethiopian Minister of Industry, Melaku Alebel, has officially inaugurated the China-Africa-UNIDO Centre of Excellence located in Addis – Ababa. UNIDO reports that the centre is a pioneering tripartite initiative, to promote sustainable industrialization, agricultural modernization,…
◇ GEF Council The Global Environment Facility’s governing body has approved more than $700 million for nature protection and renewal projects, including support for the Great Green Wall and investment in large-scale initiatives for sustainable cities, cleaner industries, improved ocean and land health, and greater climate change resilience. The funding from the GEF Trust Fund, Least…
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Achieved 81 percent of the collection of the first quarter of 2024 amounting to N3.94 trillion being an all-time highest in the same quarter and 56 percent higher than Q1 2023.
NACETEM is currently awaiting the Federal Executive Council approval on some of its innovative policies including commercialisation of some research outputs
▪︎ Wale Edun The Federal Government has categorised all electricity companies, including the Generation and Distribution Companies (GenCos and DisCos), as those exempted from the payment of Withholding Tax in the country. This was contained in the new Withholding Tax regulation document signed by the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun. The new Withholding Tax regulation…
▪︎ WTO DG, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala UNIDO, WTO, ITC, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), have begun mobilizing $12 billion to support the development of a sustainable cotton industry in the Cotton Four countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali – or “C4”) and Côte d’Ivoire. The project, tagged ‘Partnership for Cotton…
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, says that investors applying for a Mining Lease license would pay N3 million, while Small Scale Mining Lease (SSML) applicants will pay N300,000 for the first two cadastral units. The Minister also said : “The cost to obtain an Exploration Licence (EL) is N600,000 for the first…
Mining is a win-win thing if done responsibly, but destructive and disruptive when it is irresponsibly carried out.
