THE USAID-funded MARKETS programme has taken time to analyse the time, cost and reliability factors associated with the transportation of cargo between the various links and nodes along the Lagos–Jibiya corridor, including intermediate points.

AB Microfinance Bank has extended several credit facilities to 3,000 beneficiaries in Lagos, in its efforts to empower lives,.

Kano state Government has proposed over N 110 billion appropriation bill for 2010.

Dr Sayyadi Ruma, the Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, said that the approval of the N250 billion Agricultural Intervention Fund by the National Assembly would aid the country’s agricultural development.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has disagreed with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia’s recent statement that any attempt to enforce an immediate gas flares-out, would affect revenue accruing to the government.

As the year 2009 wraps up, investors in the industrial sector of the economy have described the year as one of gas turbulence.

United States’ authorities said Wednesday they had obtained an emergency asset freeze against two French men accused of insider trading in an apparent attempt to illegally profit from a US company takeover.

Ecobank has donated food and other domestic items to 40 Homes and Orphanages across the country.

Investors lost N42.9 billion of their investment in quoted securities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), this week.