Tag: Investment

Niger to invest $620 mln in agriculture in 2012-13 season

Niger will invest nearly $620 million dollars in agriculture during the 2012-13 growing season, a figure equivalent to just over 20 percent of this year’s budget, the government said. Landlocked Niger, which straddles the south of the Sahara desert, has faced chronic food shortages due to poor rains and failed […]

Nigeria, UK Close in on N2trn Bilateral Trade Target

The Federal Government and the United Kingdom Monday stated that they had reached the final stages in the plan by the two countries to double international trade between them by the year 2014. Also, the level of trade between Nigeria and Canada has risen from $700 million in 2007 up […]