Director General ACCI Bags Women Affairs Award of Excellence

In recognition of her selfless and outstanding contributions to Women’s participation in business, governance and decision making, the Honorable Minister, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (FMWASD), Dame Pauline Tallen has conferred award of excellence on the Director General, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Victoria Akai. The Minister, while giving the…

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Energy Transitioning: ACCI Advocates More Private Sector Investments In Clean Energy

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry is advocating more private sector investments in cleaner energy sources to enable Nigeria achieve its energy transitioning agenda. The President of the Chamber, Dr Al-Mujtaba Abubakar said this on Tuesday at the opening session of the second World Energy Day (WAD) conference. The conference with the theme, “Energy…

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Cybersecurity Programmes: Africa Must Respect Human Rights- NGOs

Representatives of African civil society organizations have called on governments on the continent to promote and advance a human rights-respecting approach in their cybersecurity law and policy-making as cybersecurity issues have the potential to affect peoples’ well-being, rights and other aspects of human existence. Meeting in Banjul, The Gambia, at a one-day session convened by…

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Aftermath of Jandor-Funke Strategy; APC Govt Orders Closure of Alimosho Markets

Press Statement: The soaring popularity of the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party – PDP, in the 2023 gubernatorial elections in Lagos state Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran-JANDOR and Funke Akindele as evidenced in their acceptance reception by the various groups during their tour of Alimosho communities remains a pointer to the rejection of the current…

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Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) In The Management Of Tax Disputes In Nigeria: Challenges And Way Forward (Series One) By Edim Effiong Edim

ABSTRACT Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has come to stay in the Nigerian polity and has now been widely accepted as a quicker and more effective route to the settlement of commercial disputes. ADR has rightly been described in various quarters, as a surrogate to litigation in the Nigerian Judicial System. This description is not strange…

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Nigeria: African Rail Group Chides Labour for Opposing Unbundling of Rail Corporation

A regional railway advocacy group, the African Railway Roundtable has defended the need for the unbundling of Nigerian Railway Corporation, declaring that breaking the corporation into relevant sub-agencies is not the same as privatisation. In a statement by its Director, Olawale Rasheed, the group said the recent statement of the Nigerian Transportation Minister was largely…

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