Report sets out practical steps for Africa to survive post Covid-19
As several countries continue to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new guide by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) shows how clean energy investment can support countries to ‘Recover Better’, and use this unique moment to reset their economies and…
Border closure inconsistent with FG’s ease of doing business campaign— MANEG
The Chairman, MAN Export Promotion Group (MANEG), Ede Dafinone has raised an issue of national urgency, saying the indefinite closure of land borders is frustrating struggling local manufacturers involved in exports along the ECOWAS market. While stressing that the policy…
Why Ghana is harvesting Nigeria-bound deep pocket investments—BHIU Report
In the last few years, there had been an observed exodus of Nigerian companies to Ghana and the flow is becoming endless despite claims of the performance of the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), the flagship development…
Nigeria’ll go up in next ease of doing business global rating—FG
Just as the leadership of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is seeking a review of World Bank parameters in measuring Ease of Doing Business, speakers and stakeholders at a recent ‘Doing Business Series’ held in Lagos has decried…
Idle state of N500bn intervention fund frustrating ease of doing business—Exporters
Nigerian exporters have observed that the little or no disbursement from the N500bn Non-oil Export Stimulation Facility established in 2016 to provide single-digit interest loans to non-oil exporters which has forced business operators to contend with high cost of borrowing…
Review import duty, Customs administration to drive ease of doing business—LCCI
Fresh agenda on the best way to deepen ease of doing business in Nigeria has been drawn by the leadership of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). This was made public by the Director General, Mr. Muda Yusuf,…
Customs gives inchoate reasons for continued checks at seaport exit gates
…As NPA, port users’ see act as anti ease of doing business There are strong indications that the insistence of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to continue mounting checkpoints at Nigerian seaports is further frustrating the presidential executive order on…
Delay in budget passage, official minus for FG’s ease of doing business drive—BHIU
Since the second quarter of 2017, the Federal Government of Nigeria kick-started a serial campaign it called ‘ease of doing business’ with seemingly marching policies and executive orders to convince both foreign and indigenous investors that doing business in Nigeria…
S’Africa far better, more attractive than Nigeria in ease of doing business—Itsede
Former Director, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and Executive Chairman, Polar-Afrique Consulting Limited, Dr. Chris Osi Itsede, has scored the federal government very low in its ongoing campaign in driving ease of doing business in Nigeria. He made it clear…
Worried by failures, FG plans re-launch of ease of doing business
In what pundits see as a subtle way of accepting poor results of the first launch of the ease of doing business in Nigeria, the federal government has decided to unveil what it described as second action plan on the…
