Economy Archives — Page 104 of 114

July 7, 2018 No Responses

Tony Elumelu Pledges N500m For Delta Entrepreneurship Scheme

Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Founder and Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony O. Elumelu, CON has pledged N500 million to create an entrepreneurship programme exclusive to indigenes of Delta State. He made the pledge after presenting 50 beneficiaries...

May 23, 2018 No Responses

Minister: Nigeria Records $83b Investment Commitment In 15 Months

Nigeria recorded a total investment commitment of 83 billion dollars between January 2017 and March, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said. Enelamah spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the opening session of the Direct Investor...

May 23, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Invests $10b In Infrastructure In Three Years

The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says the Federal Government has invested close to 10 billion dollars in infrastructure development in the last three years. He said the investment which focused on roads, power and a new national rail network,...

May 21, 2018 No Responses

‘APM Terminals Contributes N186b Annually To Nigeria’s Economy’

An impact assessment study conducted by a Denmark-based consulting firm, Quantifying Business Impacts on Society (QBIS) has revealed that the operation of leading global port operating company, APM Terminals in Nigeria created a total turnover of around USD610...

May 18, 2018 No Responses

Green Economy To Generate 24 million Jobs By 2020

Twenty-four million new jobs will be created globally by 2030 if the right policies to promote a greener economy are put in place, a new ILO report says. According to World Employment and Social Outlook 2018: Greening with Jobs , action...

May 11, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria To Mobilise More Revenues For Growth, Says Adeosun

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed on Thursday that the Federal Government would mobilise more revenues to drive its growth plan for the economy. The Minister made this known in Abuja at a meeting with a World...

May 5, 2018 No Responses

‘More Than 60 Per Cent Of Employed Population Are In The Informal Economy’

Two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world’s employed population – make their living in the informal economy, the ILO said in a report, stressing that a transition to the formal economy is a condition to...

May 2, 2018 No Responses

John Deere Unveils Agenda For Assembly Plant In Nigeria, Targets 10,000 Tractors

A tractor manufacturing company, John Deer, has unfolded agenda for an assembly plant in Nigeria. According to the company, the Assembly Plant is expected to generate jobs and produce 10,000 tractors in four years. The company unveiled the...

April 19, 2018 2 Responses

Buhari: Trade, Investment Key To Sustainable Development Among Commonwealth Nations

President Muhammadu Buhari has identified Trade and Investment Facilitation as key to sustainable development and ease of doing business and regional integration among Commonwealth countries. He also cited expanded markets with safeguards against injurious tra...

April 18, 2018 No Responses

Elumelu, Kim, Weiner To Open Forum On Digital Economy for Africa

Chairman, Heirs Holdings and Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu will join Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group and Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn CEO at the opening debate of the ‘Digital Economy for Africa’ Forum in Washington, D.C...

March 29, 2018 No Responses

FG, States, LGs Share N647.39b

The Easter break as the Federal, State and Local Governments shared the sum of N647.39 billion from the Federation Account. The money was the revenue collection for the month of February 2018 which was approved at the Federation Account Allocation...

March 22, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Saves N68b On Personnel Cost In 2017

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Wednesday disclosed that the Federal Government saved N68 billion on personnel cost in 2017. This brings the aggregate savings by the Government on personnel cost since 2007 to date to N288...

March 21, 2018 No Responses

FG Targets 7 % Economic Growth In Three Years

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has described Nigeria’s economic outlook for the year 2018 and beyond as positive . She stated that the country was now resilient after exiting recession and has the potential to achieve a seven...

March 20, 2018 No Responses

Adeosun: Infrastructure Gulps N2.5tri In Three Years

The Nigerian Government is to sustain ongoing investment in infrastructure across the country. Speaking in Abuja on Monday, Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun explained that with over N2.5trillion pumped into infrastructure in the last three years, the coun...