The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cyber security instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyber threats, according to a group of experts. The lack of an overarching cyber security ...
An oil field off the Nigerian coast with substantial reserves and potential risks has become the latest foreign prize scooped up as part of China Petrochemical Corp.'s African expansion campaign. The state owned oil gorilla better known ...
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vanguardngr reported that Ajaokuta Steel Company was a big dream, and Mr Noel Onoja remembers with nostalgia the splendor of the complex, and the dream that it had the potential to place the country on the path of international industrial ...
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According to a Reuters survey, Iran posted increases in its oil output in November. Iranian supply has risen by 40,000 barrels per day to 2.71 million barrels per day. Sources in the survey said that a resumption in sales to South Korea ...
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Singapore-based agricultural group Olam International has announced the resignation of its CFO Krishnan Ravi Kumar. Kumar, who is leaving to "pursue a new career outside the agri-commodity sector", will be replaced by Shekhar ...
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The boss of Nigerian cement company Dangote Cement has revealed plans to open a plant in Iraq.Aliko Dangote,who is Nigeria s richest man,told the Financial Times that he is planning to open cement plants in Iraq and in Myanmar next year.He ...
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Effort by the Federal Government to comply with the Supreme Court ruling ceding the management of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State to its rightful buyers, BFIG Corporation has been rebuffed by ...
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The Nigerian state of Lagos is working with cooperative societies to help fish farmers to boost the production of fishes. Lagos State Agriculture and Cooperatives commissioner Lawal Gbolahan was quoted by the News Agency of ...
Reuters reported that OPEC crude oil output has declined in November to its lowest since January because of disruptions to Nigerian output and reduced supplies from Angola and Libya. A Reuters survey found that supply from the 12 member ...
South African food company Tiger Brands,which acquired 63.3%stake in Dangote Flour Mills,is planning to buy off the other minority shareholders in the company. In September 2012,Dangote Industries completed the sale of its 63.3%in Dangote ...
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South African food company Tiger Brands has agreed to acquire 63.4% stake in Dangote Flour Mills, a leading manufacturer of pasta and flour in Nigeria, from Dangote Industries. Tiger Brands announced in May 2012 that it was holding ...
Omoyele Akerele, founder of the Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW), has said that the Nigerian Government should support the farmers in cotton production. She said this while briefing a press conference held to announce the beginning of ...
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Nigerian Government has doled out N 54 billion to revive cotton farming and production in the country,Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,Akinwumi Adeshina said while speaking at a cotton stakeholders'workshop in Kaduna,a state in ...
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The Nigerian textile industry has the potential of bringing the redundancy rate in the country to minimum, Jayeola Olanrewaju, National Chairman of Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association, has said. Speaking at the fifth National ...
The Archive Group,a leading garment company in the East African region,is investing in Nigerian garment sector. The company plans to build a manufacturing unit in the Lekki Free Trade Zone,which ...