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The Portuguese trade increasing over the following decades, with 150,000 manillas a year being exported to the like of their trading fort at Elmina, on the Gold Coast, between 1519 and 1522, and an order for 1.4 million manillas being placed, in 1548, with a German merchant of the Fugger family, to support the trade. [12]
Calgon Carbon Corporation, acquired by its management in a leveraged buyout in 1985 and taken public in 1987. Calgon Water Management, sold to English China Clays in June 1993 for $307.5 million. [6] Calgon Vestal Laboratories, sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb in November 1994 for $261.5 million [7] and then to the Steris Corporation in 1996. [8]
As of June 2019, it stands at US$1 =NGN357. In recent years, Nigeria has expanded its trade relations with other developing countries such as India. Nigeria is the largest African crude oil supplier to India – it annually exports 400,000 barrels per day (64,000 m 3 /d) to India valued at US$10 billion annually. [165]
Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.
Krobo powder glass beads, bicones. Powder glass beads are a type of necklace ornamentation. The earliest such beads were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe in South Africa, and dated to between 970-1000 CE. Manufacturing of the powder glass beads is now concentrated in West Africa, particularly in the Ghana area.
The Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria was established in 1989 by Kola Kuddus to promote Nigerian fashion both domestically and internationally, [8] and the Central Bank of Nigeria has an initiative to support fashion designers.
The naira was introduced on 1 January 1973, [9] replacing the Nigerian pound at a rate of £1 = ₦2. [10] The coins of the new currency were the first coins issued by an independent Nigeria, as all circulating coins of the Nigerian pound were all struck by the colonial government of the Federation of Nigeria in 1959, with the name of Queen ...
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