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Nigeria: Survival Fund - Govt Releases Registration Schedule As Portal Opens
Daily Trust, 21 September 2020
As the portal for the registration of prospective beneficiaries for the Survival Fund opens on Monday, the Federal Government has released the timetable for categories of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Survival Fund - Nigerians Now Have Auto-Gas Option for Petrol - Presidency
Daily Trust, 17 September 2020
The Federal Government is committed to ameliorating the pains and the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigerians through the active implementation of the Economic… Read more »
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Nigeria: Why We're Doing Mass Registration for MSMEs - DG SMEDAN
Daily Trust, 21 September 2020
Dr Dikko Umaru Radda is the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN). In this interview, he speaks on the… Read more »
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Nigeria: What Govt Can Do to Lift Its Citizens Out of Poverty - Bill Gates
Vanguard, 16 September 2020
Microsoft co-founder and foremost philanthropist Bill Gates has spoken on possible steps to lift Nigerians out of poverty. Read more »
Nigeria Govt's Covid-19 Fund for Small Business Survival
The government has established a survival fund which is a conditional grant to support vulnerable micro and small enterprises to meeting their payroll obligations and safeguard jobs, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has seen its reserves hit heavily with its oil revenue, the biggest income earner, taking a heavy knock as world prices took a dive. The pandemic has also spurred on government talks on ways of diversifying the economy to ensure continued growth.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria has waived the requirement for the provision of guarantors by households and small and medium enterprises applying for its U.S.$129 million targeted ... Read more »
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Nigeria has been relying solely on crude oil as its major source of revenue. Now the government has said unfolding events of the past few months, the coronavirus pandemic and the Read more »
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Pressure is mounting on Nigeria's economy to create jobs as COVID-19 tightens its grip. The Minister of Labour Festus Keyamo has been complaining of growing pressure from ... Read more »
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According to the World Bank, the cost of power shortages in Nigeria is estimated at approximately U.S.$29 billion. The figure is equivalent to 2% of the country's Gross Domestic ... Read more »
