The 18th edition of the Abuja International Trade Fair will hold from 29th September to 9 October 2023. Director General of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Dr. Victoria Akai, said at a press conference, yesterday.She said that this year’s fair with the theme, ‘Sustainable Financing and Taxation,’ would be as a platform…
The FRSC disclosed that recent nationwide enforcement operations led to the interception of about 1,000 vehicles allegedly using fake diplomatic plates, cloned registration documents, and other unauthorized identifiers.
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has critiqued the Raw Materials Research and Development Council [RMRDC] Bill in the National Assembly, calling for its withdrawal. The RMRDC Bill proposed by Senator Peter Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, which aims to ensure local processing of at least 30 percent of Nigeria’s raw materials before exportation, has…
No sooner than the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) requested the Central Bank of Nigeria to reduce the size of the Bureau De Change (BDCs) operators in the country, than the apex bank announced that it has revoked the licenses of 4,173 Bureaux De Change Operators across the country. Data obtained from the CBN website,…
▪︎Dr. Doris Anite -Uzoka, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment From the ban on styrofoam, popularly known as “take away packs” to Single-Use Plastics (SUP), the Lagos State Government is on the march again to ban pure water and table waters starting January 2025. The state’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, revealed…
Japanese auto giants Honda and Nissan confirmed on Thursday they had scrapped the merger talks that would have created the world’s third-largest automaker by unit sales. AFP reports that the bid to join forces had been seen as a bid to catch up with US titan Tesla and Chinese firms in the electric vehicle market,…
▪︎Aliko Dangote with Sen Heineken Lopkobiri. Photo credit: Sen Heineken Lopkobiri’s X. In Summary 1. Nigeria and Africa can become completely self-sufficient in petroleum products, and saves annual imports bill of $17 billion. 2. Nigeria must develop a refining capacity of 1.5 million barrels per day and prioritise domestic crude supply obligations. 3. He urged…
Benjamin Hundeyin, police spokesperson in the state, said the feat was achieved by the Lagos Marine police with support from the navy.
The big manufacturers being reached out to across the country includes Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company, Dangote Cement, LaFarge, Julius Berger, MTN, Airtel, Oando, Transcorp, Marriott, Eko Hotels, TotalEnergies, Obasanjo Farms, R.T Briscoe, Dantata Organisation, Nord Motors and many others.
The United States, China and India as major AI-producing economies, while several Asian countries, including Thailand, were contributing to the infrastructure supporting the technology.
