The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Tuesday, carried out a successful Search and Rescue Operation at Okun Alpha Community in Owode village, Alpha Beach, Lekki Lagos which was ravaged by a surge from the Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of the morning.

FinBank Plc has released its third quarter results, which shows a consolidation of the growth trends started in the first and second quarters.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered African Petroleum Plc not to go ahead with its proposed Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for Friday 29th October at Transcorp Hilton Abuja.

Financial empowerment is the thrust of discussion at this year’s avenues to Wealth award where Director, Lagos Business School , Prof Pat Utomi is the lead speaker. He is to be assisted by the duo of wealth creation experts, Mr. Dolf De Roos and Mr. Adeolu Akinyemi who will motivate and challenge youths on seizing [...]

Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, a member of the Standard Bank Group, has been named the “Best Issuing House in Africa” at the 2010 African Banker Awards.

Dangote Cement Plc, on Tuesday, listed its 15,494,019,668 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N135.00 per by way of introduction on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

The FAO, Tuesday, in Rome,launched the second edition of the ‘State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Report’. The UN agency said in a statement that genetic diversity of the edible plants and their “wild relatives” could be lost forever.

It said the situation would threaten future food security, unless special [...]

The decision by the Federal Government to privatise the power sector of the economy has opened a floodgate of investment in the country as foreign and national investors have indicated interests to pump in billions of dollars to revive the nation’s epileptic power sector.

AS the nation’s first manpower development institute in the shipping sector; the Nigerian Institute of Shipping (NIS) marks its 25 anniversary it has unfolded a list of 25 eminent Nigerians and corporate bodies for honours at an event which comes up in Lagos between October, 28 and 29.

THE Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has berated the management of the National Environmental Standards and Regulation, Enforcement Agency (NESREA) over its involvement in the shipment of the toxic materials.

THE out going Vice Chairman of newly reconstituted Governing Council of the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarders of Nigeria (CRFFN) Alhaji Hakeem Olanrewaju has said that the path to greatness for Nigerian freight forwarders is in the adoption of the policy of local content in the nation’s logistic chain.

AN operator in the local shipping sector Oladipo Ogunwemimo spoke to Vanguard’s Godwin Oritse and registered their plight in trying to keep their heads above water in local shipping industry and inhibitions in trying to access the Cabotage Vessel Financing Funds from the four Primary Lending Institutions.