LAST week, Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, stormed the Bank of Industry along the Marina in Lagos. He was on a job creation drives.

Nothing better illustrates the crucial role that science must play in farming in Africa than the contrasts in agricultural productivity between our continent and the world as a whole. For while food productivity has increased globally by 140 per cent in recent decades, the figures for sub-Saharan Africa over the same period show a fall.

The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to catering for the housing needs of the low income segment of the population.

As part of its global re-structuring plans aimed at focusing the telecommunications (telecoms) equipment maker on more profitable mobile broadband business, Nokia Siemens Networks has announce plans to cut 17,000 jobs, representing 23 per cent of its workforce worldwide, to save about $1.35 billion a year.

AFRICA’S leading airline, South African Airways (SAA) has appointed a Nigerian national, Ohis Ehimiaghe as the new Regional Manager: North, West and Central Africa.