011206 | Nigeria Exports $169m Goods Under AGOA, Oil Prices Climb Above $62 a Barrel, Ecobank Earns GCR Top Ratings, NDIC Assigns 2000 Debt Recovery Briefs To Solicitors, Philip Emeagwali Article

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Nigeria Exports $169m Goods Under AGOA
1st DEC 2006

Nigerian non-oil exports under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) have been pegged at $US169m. According to Presidential Adviser On Export Matters Gladys Modupe Sasore, the media have not given accurate information of the position of the country in respect of the agreement...
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Oil Prices Climb Above $62 a Barrel
1st DEC 2006

Other factors contributing to the market's upward momentum include a decline in the dollar, the currency in which crude oil is traded, and the possibility of further production cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which meets next month in Nigeria...
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Ecobank Earns GCR Top Ratings...
The improved performance of Ecobank Nigeria Plc in the 2006 financial year has earned it an "A+" long term and "A1" short term ratings from Global Credit Rating Company (GCR), an internationally acclaimed rating agency...
1st DEC 2006

NDIC Assigns 2000 Debt Recovery Briefs To Solicitors...
Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) said it had assigned over 2000 debt recovery briefs to solicitors in respect of the banks that were undergoing liquidation...
1st DEC 2006

Fidelity Bank Inaugurates Two Products...
Fidelity Bank Plc has introduced two electronic products called fidelity schoolsonline and fidelitytravelsonline...
1st DEC 2006

Bellview Aircraft Explosive ‘Not Bomb’...
Aviation experts under the aegis of Aviation Round Table (ART) have said that the item recovered from a passenger at the boarding point of a Bellview aircraft about two weeks ago was not a bomb...
1st DEC 2006

Obasanjo Flags Off $8.3b Rail Project...
President Olusegun Obasanjo eyes a 10 per cent economic growth in the next "one or two decades," and he pressed on the vision on Tuesday as he laid the foundation of a $8.3 billion Lagos-Kano standard gauge rail line at Kajola, Ogun State...
30th NOV 2006

Bank PHB Posts N3.5b Profit...
Bank PHB on Tuesday announced a pre-tax profit of N3.52 billion for the financial year 2006, a 233 per cent rise over the previous figure of N1.05 billion...
30th NOV 2006

Columnist Weekly

How Do
We Reverse
the Brain Drain?

Follow the thoughts of one of Africa’s greatest brains who was voted history's greatest scientist (#1) of African descent — and the 35th greatest African of all time — in a survey for the September 2004 issue of the London-based New African magazine. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing and in 2000 was extolled by Bill Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”

How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
- By Philip Emeagwali

For 10 million African-born emigrants, the word “home” is synonymous with the United States, Britain or other country outside of Africa. Personally, I have lived continuously in the United States for the past 30 years. My last visit to Africa was 17 years ago...
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PHCN & Online Electricity Payment System
By Chyke 9 OCT 2006

This is a great achievement for the country. My only concern here is the motivation for this implementation...
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