It added as at 2011, unemployment rate was at 24 per cent compared to 21 per cent in 2010, adding that the rate was high among the age bracket of between 15 and 24 and 25 to 44 at 38 per cent and 22 per cent respectively
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This directive was contained in a press statement signed by the Deputy
Director, AGF’s Office, Charles Nwodo, which was made available to the
News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja
Commenting on the new offering, which went live recently, the Managing
Director/CEO of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Segun Agbaje, said the
upgrade will make it more convenient for people to commence banking
relationships with the Bank
Stated Srivastava: “The Step Up promo is based on general knowledge
questions. While testing out one’s general knowledge, it also offers
one the opportunity to win as much as N2M. This is a great way of
horning one’s general knowledge and at the same time qualifying to
winning prizes
This notwithstanding, the bank said Nigeria had yet to tap into the
huge potentialities in the region for growth, economic diversification and integration
The Vice President, during the meeting, stressed that the President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan-led administration strongly believed that with the measures already put in place regarding laws and regulations, Nigeria should not continue to remain on the public statement of the FATF
“That is why it becomes absolutely necessary that we review to reflect the socio-economic changes in Nigeria and the desire of the Nigerian people
He said there was never a time the audit report was “signed-off” by
the management of the PPPRA, challenging NEITI to make a copy of the
sign-off public, to prove its claim against PPPRA
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, said that adding Nigeria to the 28 developing countries, where the organisation works in providing access to finance to low-income women, is very exciting
African business leader and philanthropist, Elumelu, who is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, said: “Redeveloping one of the country’s most iconic malls is part of our commitment to drive development and move Nigeria forward through our business activities
Julius Berger trailed with N1.43 to close at N179.33 per share, while
Dangote Cement lost N1 to close at N195 per share
The minister said that the country needed to invest an average of $25
billion (N4 trillion) per annum from 2014 to 2018 on infrastructure,
compared with $10 billion (N1.6 trillion) the government currently
spent
The visit equally afforded the Ambassador the opportunity to discuss arrangements for the forthcoming Nigeria-Singapore Business and Investment Forum, being organized by the the High Commission in collaboration with the Singapore Business Federation and International Enterprise, Singapore
The governor reiterated his administration’s commitment to provide basic socio-economic infrastructure development to enhance the actualization of the “Delta Beyond Oil” initiative
The state government was represented by a powerful delegation of its economic team, which included Okubor; the Commissioner for Commerce, Dr. Kingsley Emu; the Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah; and the Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Foreign Relations, Oma Djebah
Stanley explained that the N4.423 billion ‘over-recovery’ that the PPPRA was asked to remit was not correct, noting that only the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation still has an outstanding payment of about N3.98 billion to be paid into the account of the Central Bank of Nigeria
I can tell you that based on the insistence of the Country Director of The World Bank, Akwa Ibom is one of the states expected to benefit from this
This is against the 38,292.06 points recorded on Thursday.
The market capitalisation also grew by N42 billion to close at N12.168 trillion, when compared with the N12.126 trillion transacted on Thursday
He said the presentation also gave Ministers ample opportunity to make observations so that the Finance Minister could
fine-tune the proposal before returning to FEC for final approval and onward transmission to the National Assembly
The Honeywell Group Chairman has requested that to further promote his ideals of philanthropy and giving back to the society, those who plan to send gifts or media messages should channel the funds to Footprints Occupational Training Centers, an initiative of the Oba Otudeko Foundation