Court orders appointment of caretaker c’ttee for NULGE
By Funmi Komolafe Abuja – An Abuja high court has ordered that “the Caretaker Committee be constituted to run the affairs of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), until the determination of the substantive suit before it. It has also granted an interlocutory injunction stopping anyone from convening or holding the national delegates […]
Real estate conference to discuss foreign investment
A real estate conference to discuss how to develop and sustain foreign investor confidence for Nigerian mortgages, and expand the mortgage industry is to hold in Lagos on August 18 and 19.
US stocks rally ahead of Fed rate decision
US stocks rallied Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and possible changes in its pump priming of the recession-mired economy.
Corporate governance : Operator advocates broad-based boards for MFB
Managing Director of Lagos-based Imperial Microfinance Bank, Mr. Ejike Azubuike, has called for broad based-boards of directors as panacea to the problem of poor corporate governance in microfinance banks, MFB.
Citizen dividends and oil resource rents, a focus on Alaska, Norway and Nigeria
Abstract: Citizens of Alaska have been receiving individual dividend checks from an oil rent trust fund since 1982. Norway’s citizens receive substantial social services and invest oil rents in a permanent fund for the future. Nigeria has yet to establish a similar fund for its oil revenue stream.
As lawyers confer in Lagos…..
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), will from August 17, 2009, start its week long annual conference in Lagos, which will bring together over 8,000 lawyers. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Underdeveloped Nations, Failed Economies and Future of the Legal Profession’.. .
Cashew attracts global demand in spite of downturn
PERHAPS, the crop, cashew is overshadowed by coffee, cocoa, and maybe cotton and oil palm, but in terms of the number of lives that can be touched, cashew is far more, than the aforementioned crops.
Customs boss charges officers to justify promotion
Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Kirikiri Lighter Terminal Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Iya Abubakar Umar, has charged recently promoted officers in the command to justify management’s confidence on them by putting in their best and providing leadership in the discharge of their duties.
KVL/NEPC export roundtable holds in Kano
THE Koinonia Venture Limited (KVL), Nigeria Export Promotion Commission (NEPC) export roundtable, a forum to examine the current challenges facing the non-oil export sector geared towards identifying solutions that could aid non-oil export trade in Nigeria will hold between August 25 and 26 in Kano State.
The law, complexity of amnesty in the Niger Delta quagmire
The amnesty granted to Niger Delta militants has taken-off, with little hitches so far. At least, from reports available, some of the militants have started laying down their arms, while some others are still giving condition for the total surrender of their arms, which is accomplished, will restore peace to the trouble Niger Delta region. […]
BRIC countries to drive global export in 2010
THE world has been anxiously awaiting signs the Chinese along with other emerging market economies will emerge as the new drivers of global export demand to replace the once spendthrift U.S. consumer.
