The Government of Nigeria is considering on making it compulsory to produce school uniforms from domestic fabrics, according to the Minister of Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga. Speaking at a stakeholders’ workshop on ...
Tags: School Uniforms, Fabrics
China's investment in Africa has increased 30-fold since 2005, a commerce official said Thursday. According Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian, who spoke at a press conference in Beijing Thursday, the investment was divided amongst ...
Tags: African Investment
A new garment factory, said to be the largest in West Africa, will start functioning in Osogbo, the capital of Nigerian state of Osun, in August this year. Sam & Sara, a Lagos-based uniform and garment manufacturing company, has ...
Tags: Garment Unit, Apparel
Philips partnered with the Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) to propose a new solar-powered LED lighting concept, which will benefit at least 26 communities spread across Ghana. At the Accra stop of Philips’ pan-African Cape ...
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) has disbursed about 60 percent of the N100 billion Textile Revival Fund, according to the bank’s managing director Evelyn Oputu. Ms. Oputu, who is currently attending the 20th Anniversary ...
Global insurance broking and risk management firm Marsh has completed the acquisition of Alexander Forbes' stake in Nigerian insurance broker Femi Johnson & Company (FJC). Marsh intends to merge the newly-acquired business with its ...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has been requested to restore the non-operational textile industries of the country, in order to promote the indigenous fabrics of the West African country. The ongoing decline in the number of ...
Tags: Textile Units, Fabrics
Egi MJG Float Glass, a joint venture between Egi Community, Mara Group, JS Group and Ghani Group will build a $210 million float glass manufacturing plant in Nigeria. The production facility in Rivers State will produce 500 tonnes of ...
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An exhibition displaying an array of aristocratic, performance and ritual clothing of Africa is going on at the famous encyclopaedic art museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, US. Titled as Majestic African Textiles, the ...
Tags: Textiles, African, Indianapolis
Nigerian cement producer Dangote Cement has formally expressed interest to build a US$550m cement plant in Nepal. Investment Board Nepal (IBN) has received an application from Dangote, according to a press release from the IBN. IBN CEO ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, cement
Shell said it reduced by 50% the volume of oil spills from its onshore operations in Nigeria's Niger Delta in 2012 compared with the previous year, but that oil theft from the company's facilities remain a long-term challenge. "The volume ...
Tags: Shell, Oil Spill, Nigerian Fields
The Angolan Nemba crude premium to heavier grade Hungo crude has hit a near two year high as the naphtha-rich grade gains support from soaring Nigerian crude values, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed Nemba Thursday at Dated ...
Shell's Nigeria unit may be forced to shut down completely its key Nembe Creek oil pipeline in the Niger Delta following repeated attacks on the facility by thieves siphoning crude, the chairman of Shell companies in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, ...
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Sergey Brin envisions Google's Internet glasses hitting the market this year with an eye toward freeing people from unsocial habits engendered by "emasculating" smartphones. The Google co-founder who immigrated to the US when 6-years-old ...
Tags: Brin, Google Glass, smartphones
jcpenney has teamed up with some of the world's leading designers and brands to bring their styles to more Americans at an affordable price. In addition to the highly anticipated debut of Joe Fresh in nearly 700 stores, Pearl by Georgina ...