Zain Nigeria has unveiled another exciting consumer promo to reward its pre-paid customers as Nigerians across the country continue to celebrate the nation’s 50th Independence anniversary.

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Asutin Omiwon has challenged Japanese investors to look beyond arms-length and trading relationships with Nigeria by establishing manufacturing plants that will be beneficial to the oil, gas and solid minerals business in the Gulf of Guinea.

Cross River State government has signed the design agreement for the Calabar Riviera Resort with Island Style Homes Inc of Florida, USA. The Calabar Riviera Resort is jointly owned by the Cross River State Government and Vetiva Properties Limited.

Shareholders of FCMB Plc have unanimously endorsed the proposal by its Board of Directors to increase the share capital of the bank by 575 million shares.

Some stakeholders in the oil and gas industry on Wednesday challenged Mrs Deziani Allison-Madueke, the new Minister of Petroleum Resources, to formulate new investor-friendly policies in the sector.

The move comes as Daihatsu’s parent company, Toyota Motor Corp. battles to restore consumer confidence amid massive recalls. The world’s top automaker has recalled 8.5 million vehicles worldwide, including more than 6 million in the U.S. alone. Toyota owns about 51 percent of minicar maker Daihatsu Motor Co. Ltd.

THE amnesty programme created by the Federal Government may have failed as the fishing trawling sub-sector of the Nigerian economy has experienced an upsurge in attacks of fishing vessels.

The Commissioner for Insurance, Mr Fola Daniel, has urged insurance operators to comply with the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) Policy and Operational Guidelines for 2010. Daniel said in Lagos on Wednesday that compliance was necessary because the guidelines would form part of the regulatory and supervisory tools for 2010.According to him, the guidelines are also meant to sanitise the industry and rid it of unethical practices.

In fact, there are very few things you do today without skills. Getting employment requires skills as you could confirm if you go through the advertisements in the newspapers. The companies ask for engineers, accountants, lawyers, secretaries, public relations practitioners, managers, administrators, drivers etc.

From childhood, trading became a way of life for me. I woke with it, spent the day at it, slept in its environment. In retrospect, my disposition to business seemed to have started from there

Solanke’s funeral was grand. Many British newspapers such as the Daily Mirror, reported that “The Chief of the Square is dead…”In the London Times it was under the VIP column.

Quite often, the deficit between the rental fee of the hostel and revenues from the restaurant and the rooms was made up from the proceeds of Ladipo Solanke’s legal practice.

The entire restaurant’s staff and the room cleaners (who were mostly whites) were paid by the Warden (Solanke), while the warden’s wife (my humble self [...]

Solanke and I arrived in the UK in October 1932 at Southampton and were met by the late Sir Adetokunbo Ademola who was the son of the then Alake of Abeokuta and the father of the late Justice Adenekan Ademola, and who was then a final-year student at The University of Cambridge.