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A United States-based solar product design and marketing company, SolAps, has said the Nigerian solar power industry is growing and it is aiming to reach 20 million Nigerians with its products.
Its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Omololu Noibi, said the company was founded in 2009 with the goal of accelerating the adoption of solar renewable energy around the world, by introducing solar-based applications, with the aid of available technologies. Noibi, who spoke at a press briefing in Lagos, said the company had created a mobile app that connects users to solar mobile chargers… More details through: https://punchng.com/nigerias-solar-industry-growing-says-us-based-firm/
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Leoht Africa has partnered with the Indian Chamber of Commerce to boost the retail sector of Nigeria’s textile industry and position it as a leading hub in the Central and West African market.
According to the Managing Director, Leoht Africa, Bunmi Aliyu, the partnership aims to build a yearly and sustainable international sourcing platform for organisations to trade and secure orders from corporate buyers and resellers. Aliyu disclosed this at the 2021 edition of the Source Textile and Apparel and Retail Sourcing Fair West Africa Exhibitions… More details through: https://guardian.ng/business-services/india-nigerian-firm-partner-to-boost-retail-textile-sector/ Despite not being a manufacturing hub for production or assemblage of vehicles or aircraft, Nigeria has raked in $242 million (N100.65bn) from the export of airplanes/helicopters to Ghana, analysis of Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics reports by Daily Trust has shown.
The report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), stated that Nigeria has in the three quarters of 2021 exported helicopters to Ghana with the commodity increasing the amount of money made in the manufacturing sector. A breakdown revealed that in the first quarter, N71.1bn was realised, with N16.65bn made in the second quarter and N12.9bn in the third quarter… More details through: https://dailytrust.com/how-nigeria-exported-over-n100bn-worth-airplanes-to-ghana-in-2021 Nigeria imported goods worth $51bn (N21.1tn) in five years from China, the country’s top import trading partner.
The country’s imports from China were more than what it bought from the United States and the Netherlands combined in the period under review. Foreign trade data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics show that the three countries were Nigeria’s main import trade partners during the period… More details through: https://punchng.com/nigerias-imports-from-china-gulp-n21tn-in-five-years/ We will be back in January 2022. Best wishes from all of us at Naijalink Limited  The Federal Government has said it plans to partner with the People’s Republic of China in developing a renewable energy research centre that will boost renewable energy technology in some Nigerian universities.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation on Friday. “The proposed partnership between the Chinese and Nigerian universities is expected to build and upgrade centres of excellence in renewable energy technologies which include green energy – solar, wind, hydro, bio-energy, energy efficiency and management,” it said… More details through: https://punchng.com/fg-to-partner-china-on-renewable-energy-technology/ Loewe Technology GmbH has partnered with Courtleigh Investment Limited to reposition the audio-visual market in West Africa with the launch of its gallery in Lagos.
Committed to superior consumer electronics offerings, Loewe gallery will offer first-class materials and high-quality products made from Germany to the Nigerian market and other markets across West Africa. According to the Managing Director, Courtleigh Investment Limited, Omodunke Adelakun, the agreement with the international brand, under the registered name “Loewe Technology Nigeria Limited,” will position Nigeria as a quality audio-visual market across Africa… More details through: https://guardian.ng/business-services/industry/loewe-courtleigh-partner-to-reposition-audio-visual-market-in-west-africa/ MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communications have been awarded Nigeria’s first 5G high-speed spectrum licences at an auction held by country’s telecoms regulator on Monday.
The licences are in line with Nigerian Communications Commission’s promise in July to start auctioning spectrum for the next-generation 5G network in the fourth quarter of this year… More details through: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N2SY20B Nigeria imported solid minerals worth $35m (N143.1bn) from January to September this year, according to data collated from the National Bureau of Statistics.
The NBS data also show that the country exported N42.5bn solid minerals in the nine-month period, less than 30 per cent of what it imported. It said, “The total value of trade in solid mineral goods in Q1 2021 stood at N49.5bn. The export component of this trade stood at N9.3bn while the import was valued at N40.2bn… More details through: https://punchng.com/nigeria-imports-n143bn-solid-minerals-in-nine-months/ The Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, John Donnelly, says his country is willing to collaborate with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture to explore wheat production.
A statement quoted Donnelly as saying that the Australian Commission was proposing collaboration on wheat production if IITA, through agricultural cooperation, was willing to add wheat to its mandate crops. The Legume Geneticist and Breeder, Christian Fatokun, who spoke on behalf of the West African Hub Director, Michael Abberton, was quoted as saying “Through our plant health laboratory, we also support the Nigerian government to ensure that seeds imported into the country meet international plant quarantine standards… More details through: https://punchng.com/iita-australia-to-collaborate-on-wheat-production/ |
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