After the first year’s success, Alhaji Bala Turawa plans to expand his production and sell to agro_processors, raising his family’s income.

The Managing Director, USAID funded Maximizing Agricultural Revenue & Key Enterprises in Target Sites (MARKETS), Mr. Tim Prewitt has disclosed that they are set to increase Nigeria’s agriculture competitiveness and food security with its activities.

The Nigerian stock market on Wednesday consolidated gains with petroleum, banking and food shares as the toast of investors,.

Despite the challenges being faced by operators in the financial service sector, the management of Oasis Insurance Plc, has promised its shareholders of better returns in the years ahead.

Flour Mills Nigeria Plc has expended over N200 million in the course of carrying out a number of developmental projects and in the provision of certain basic social amenities in Apapa Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Trade and com merce in Africa has received a major boost with the introduction of three trade related products; Afritrade, AfriCard and AfriCash by United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc. These unique products have been designed by UBA to facilitate trade transactions across the continent.

Prof. Olu Ajakaiye, Research Director of Nairobi-based, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) , has called on African countries to exploit the existing China-Africa Trade relations to establish trade zones.

Nigeria will require 40 billion dollars to meet the power sector target, the Director-General of Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Ms Bolanle Onagoruwa, has said.

THE Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria (POFON) has said that for the nation to aspire to the number one position in world palm oil trade, it has to be seen to develop its oil palm industry on sustainable and globally acceptable principles. And for now, the Round-table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) embodies the requisite principles.