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March 6, 2026 No Responses

Indian Firms Commit $27b Investments In Nigeria

High Commissioner of India, Amb. Abhishek Singh,on Thursday estimated that Indian firms have cumulatively invested around $27 billion in Nigeria.These companies, he said, are active in sectors including pharmaceuticals, power, transmission, manufacturing, hospitality, retailing of consumer goods, construction and air...

June 25, 2025 No Responses

Nigeria Customs, India Strengthen Bilateral Ties

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reaffirmed its commitment to deepening strategic cooperation with the Indian Customs Administration, as both sides advanced discussions on key customs issues on the margins of the 92nd Session of the World Customs Organisa...

November 19, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Customs Signs Mutual Administrative Agreement With India

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on 16 November 2023, signed a Customs Mutual Administrative Agreement (CMAA) with its Indian counterpart. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, represented the NCS during the signing ceremony, held at the Minis...

November 18, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria, India Harp On Investment Treaty, Trade, Cooperation

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu and Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, have directed their officials to finalise pending bilateral trade agreements between the two countries. The leaders announced this in a joint statement issued on Sunday in Abuja at the...

June 14, 2024 No Responses

Customs Impounds N4.1b Hard Drugs Imported From Canada, India At Tin-Can Island Port

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin-Can Island Customs Command has impounded hard drugs and unwholesome pharmaceutical products worth N4.1billion imported from India and Canada.Briefing Journalists inside the Tin-Can Island Port on Friday, Comptroller Gener...

June 10, 2024 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts 176,000 Codeine Shipment From India

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted another consignment of 175,000 bottles of opioid imported from India. The is coming barely a week after seizing a shipment of codeine-based syrup at the Port Harcourt Ports co...

June 5, 2024 No Responses

TINUBU CONGRATULATES INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, NARENDRA MODI ON ELECTION VICTORY

President Bola Tinubu extends his warm congratulations to the Prime Minister of India, His Excellency, Narendra Modi, on his epoch-making victory in the nation’s parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Modi’s coalition – the National Democrat...

May 15, 2024 No Responses

TotalEnergies Supports Clean Cooking In Africa, India With $400m

At the Clean Cooking Summit organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA), TotalEnergies announced its ambition of giving 100 million people in Africa and India access to clean cooking by 2030. Under the arrangement, TotalEnergies will invest m...

March 11, 2024 No Responses

India Signs $100b Free Trade Deal With Four Countries

India has signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with a group of four European countries that are not members of the European Union. The deal with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) will see investments in India of $100bn (£77.8bn),...

January 14, 2024 No Responses

10 Corps Members Depart For India On Youth Exchange Programme

Ten National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members will travel to India on Sunday to participate in a Youth Exchange Programme organised by the Indian National Cadet Corps. The annual programme is held to commemorate the Independence Anniversary of the Republic.....

December 26, 2023 No Responses

Plane Held Over Trafficking Lands In India

A plane carrying hundreds of Indian nationals who were held for days at an airport in France over human trafficking fears has arrived in India. BBC report that the chartered Airbus A340, which had been flying from the United Arab...

July 21, 2023 No Responses

India Bans Rice Exports

India has outlawed the export of non-basmati white rice in an attempt to ward off looming domestic price spikes. BBC report that heavy rains have hurt crops in the country and rice prices have risen by more than 11% over...

March 31, 2023 No Responses

Air Peace Launches Nonstop Flights To India

West and Central Africa’s leading airline, Air Peace, in its characteristic way of setting aviation records, achieved another first on March 31, 2023, by launching direct, nonstop flight services to Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra State in Southweste...

March 27, 2023 No Responses

Envoy: All Set For Air Peace Direct Flight To India March 31

The much-anticipated direct flights from Nigeria to India is set to commence on March 31, 2023, Mr Gangadharan Balasubramanian, Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, has said. Balasubramanian told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that Air Peace, a...