Dangote Group: Soon Nigeria Will Become A Rice Exporting Nation   The Dangote Group has pledged to change Nigeria’s narrative as a rice importing nation, to major exporter of the staple food. The group said that its 150,000 hectares rice farmlands in Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger,...

Nigeria, US Trade Now $5.21bn   US Consul General Pierangelo Nigeria and the United States recorded 5.21 billion dollars bilateral trade between January and August this year. The Consul General, US Consulate in Lagos, Ms Claire Pierangelo, disclosed this during the 2019 International Investment Conference on Wednesday...

Nigeria Working On Becoming Africa’s Leading Digital Economy, Says Pantami     Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has said Nigeria is being repositioned to become the leading digital economy in Africa. Speaking at a meeting with the management of Huawei Technologies Nigeria Limited in...

Report Reveals Nigeria Records Highest Oil Theft Rate In The World   The highest ever reported crude oil theft in the world has taken place in Nigeria with the country recording approximately 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude theft, a report showed. Mexico came second with...

To Fight Poverty, Nigeria Must End Reliance On Oil – IMF   The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Ms Kristalina Georgieva, has said that there is a need for the Federal Government to diversify the economy from the oil in order to reduce the...

Nigeria, Germany Sign 70M Euros Bilateral Agreement The Federal Government has signed a 70M Euros additional financing bilateral agreement with the Republic of Germany on sustainable economic development, renewable energy, polio eradication, strengthening resilience of internally-displaced persons and host communities in northern Nigeria, education, peace...