• Home
  • News
    • African News
    • Nigerian
    • World
    • News UK
    • Politics
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
Nigerian Watch Newspaper
Nigerian Watch Newspaper
 
 
 
  • Home
  • News
    • African News
    • Nigerian
    • World
    • News UK
    • Politics
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health

Posts tagged with "Ecowas"

Are Nigerians aware of the fact that the global leather industry is currently worth about $500bn a year and the raw material used in the sector is cattle hide? African News

Are Nigerians aware of the fact that the global leather industry is currently worth about $500bn a year and the raw material used in the sector is cattle hide?

Ayo Akinfe   As we debate the creation of cattle ranches across Nigeria, are we aware of the fact that the global leather goods market was valued at $414bn in 2017, it is expected to reach $629.65bn by 2025? Here are the top 10 producers worldwide.   (1) China produces 6.17bn square feet of leather goods and...
10 US companies President Buhari should be pressing President Biden to encourage to come and open manufacturing facilities in Nigeria African News

10 US companies President Buhari should be pressing President Biden to encourage to come and open manufacturing facilities in Nigeria

Ayo Akinfe (1) General Motors (2) Ford (3) Chrysler (4) John Deere (5) Dell (6) Boeing (7) Prizer (8) Tyson Foods (9) Hewlett Packard (10) Nike We need about $50bn in foreign direct investment in 2021 to save us from economic strangulation. If these companies come to Nigeria, it will create about 1m new jobs...
Buhari should have initiated a series of investment agreements between Ecowas and other regional bodies as part of a desperate attempt to attract FDI in this post-Covid era before opening Nigeria’s borders African News

Buhari should have initiated a series of investment agreements between Ecowas and other regional bodies as part of a desperate attempt to attract FDI in this post-Covid era before opening Nigeria’s borders

Ayo Akinfe Nigeria needs to attract at least $50bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2021 to avoid total economic collapse. Where on earth we are going to get it from I do not know and I am surprised that nobody is even talking about it at the moment. Waiting for investors to just come to Nigeria is utopian thinking. We should...
If Biden wins here are a set of demands I expect Buhari to present him with African News

If Biden wins here are a set of demands I expect Buhari to present him with

Ayo Akinfe (1) Nigeria is willing to offer the US observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive US investment in West Africa (2) Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the big three US automobile manufacturers General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. We want...
New report reveals that 8m West Africans opened banks accounts during Covid-19 shutdown African News

New report reveals that 8m West Africans opened banks accounts during Covid-19 shutdown

ABOUT 8m West Africans opened new bank accounts during the coronavirus lockdown as the reduction in commercial activities forced them to save money according to a new report just released by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.   During the lockdown, markets, motor parks, supermarkets and all other commercial centres were...
Malian military junta sworn-in as Goodluck's Ecowas 18-month transition programme begins African News

Malian military junta sworn-in as Goodluck's Ecowas 18-month transition programme begins

MALI'S new government has been sworn-in in the capital Bamako today after the interim president Bah Ndaw named the members of his cabinet who will govern the country for the next 18 months.   On August 18, the Malian military seized power toppling President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and prime minister Boubou Cisse. Following the...
Osinbajo visits Accra and assures Nigerian traders in Ghana that they will get justice African News

Osinbajo visits Accra and assures Nigerian traders in Ghana that they will get justice

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerian traders in Ghana that they would get justice as the negotiations between the two countries to reverse the $1m levy placed on them by the Ghanaian authorities continues.   Across the major markets in most Ghanaian cities, Nigerian traders dominate the retail trade,...
Ecowas gives Malian junta up until September 15 to appoint a civilian as interim president African News

Ecowas gives Malian junta up until September 15 to appoint a civilian as interim president

MALI's military junta has been given until September 15 by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to appoint a civilian head of a transitional government as part of a wider plan to restoring democracy within a year.   Last month, what started off as a military mutiny over salary arrears, ballooned into a full...
Ghanaian and Nigerian ministers begin negotiations over punitive $1m levy imposed in Ghana African News

Ghanaian and Nigerian ministers begin negotiations over punitive $1m levy imposed in Ghana

GHANA and Nigeria have been locked in intense negotiations in Abuja over the ongoing diplomatic spat brought about by the recent decision by the Ghanaian authorities to levy Nigerian traders operating in the country a hefty sum of $1m.   Across the major markets in most Ghanaian cities, Nigerian traders dominate the retail...
Malian military agrees to Goodluck Jonathan's Ecowas 12 month transition programme African News

Malian military agrees to Goodluck Jonathan's Ecowas 12 month transition programme

MALI'S military junta has agreed to the proposed Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) transition programme that involves them conducting elections and handing over to a democratic government within a year.   Earlier this month, what started off as a military mutiny over salary arrears, ballooned into a full blown...
Page 1 of 212
 

Follow Us on Facebook


Follow us on Twitter


Follow nigerianwatch on TwitterTweet

  • About us
  • Legal agreement
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact us
  • Back to top
© 2012 - Nigerian Watch. All rights reserved.
Website by Mouldme.com