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The Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) is a membership-based, bilateral chamber of commerce headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria whose goal is to promote bilateral trade relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom. It has gained international affiliation with the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC).
Since independence, with Jaja Wachuku as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterised by a focus on Africa as a regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles: African unity and independence; capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region: peaceful settlement of ...
Pages in category "Nigeria–United Kingdom relations" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By 1974, Britain remained Nigeria's main trading partner, but the U.S. was one of its top three markets for both imports and exports; [150] and the following year, fuelled largely by the roaring trade in oil, the U.S. overtook Britain as Nigeria's single largest export market. [48]
Due to external international forces, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine and COVID-19, [6] and internal forces such as high oil subsidies, economic inefficiencies, and plunging oil prices, [7] Nigeria has sought the assistance of the IMF on several occasions. Since the beginning of Nigeria's relationship with the IMF, it has participated ...
The Department for International Development (DFID) was founded by the UK government in 1997. The department was established by the Labour government under Prime Minister Tony Blair. The structure of the DFID was authored by various Developmental Aid Experts including Chris Collins, Barnaby Edwards Machteld, Nicolas Brown and Timothy Montague ...
The Tribunal reported in 1976 and claimed that all the existing trade union centres propagated Cold War ideologies, depended on funding from international union federations, and mismanaged funds. This was used as a justification to ban all four centres, with M. O. Abiodun appointed as the administrator of trade unions.
Foreign funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a controversial issue in some countries. In the late Cold War and afterward, foreign aid tended to be increasingly directed through NGOs, leading to an explosion of NGOs in the Global South reliant on international funding. Some critics of foreign funding of NGOs contend that foreign ...