Why More International Firms Prefer Ghana To Nigeria niyitabiti.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from niyitabiti.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minister of Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo and Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey
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Sun Apr 18 2021
The recent decision of social media giant, Twitter, to set up its Africa office in Accra, Ghana, has reopened talks on how Nigeria increasingly lose similar opportunity even as more companies relocate to the Ghanian capital. Daily Trust on Sunday reports on the trend and how it can be reversed.
Ghana, and not Nigeria, has become the preferred destination for international firms hoping to invest and set up offices in Africa, findings have revealed.
Few days after micro-blogging site Twitter announced plans to establish its Africa headquarters in Ghana, the German Government said it has chosen the former Gold Coast country as the location for the West African Centre of Global Health.
Does privatisation serve public interests? (3) vanguardngr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vanguardngr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Does Privatisation Serve the Public Interest?, By Eric Teniola
The privatisation programme was just an opportunity by government to allow very few individuals to buy our common wealth at give away prices. Some of these companies privatised were established through loans procured by the central government on behalf of the people of Nigeria, and it is the people of Nigeria who will have to repay the loans. Of what benefit has this privatisation programme been to the people of Nigeria and what impact?
Between 1988 and 1993, Alhaji Hamzat Rafindandi Zayyad (1937-2002) dominated the headlines in this country. He was in the news not because he was the first chartered accountant from the old northern Nigeria. He became an accountant in 1963. He was in the news not because he was a mentor and godfather to many public officers, especially from northern states, including the current governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, a surveyor, who has been elected twice now.