In furtherance of its commitment to improving the lifestyle of its customers across the length and breadth of the country and contributing to the growth of the Nigerian economy, through grassroots empowerment, First Bank of Nigeria Plc has rewarded its customers, numbering 176, with various gift items running into hundreds of millions of naira in the grand finale of its Big Splash Promotion Reloaded draw, held in Lagos, last weekend.

By Hector  Igbikiowubo Lagos —An engineering and fabrication feat hitherto the exclusive preserve of Europe, America and Asia have been recorded in Nigeria with the work on the topsides for the Usan floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at Nigerdock. At the weekend, the 2nd of a five stages load-out sequence involving the shipment […]

Coleman Technical Industries Limited, owners of Coleman Wires and
Cables, recently commissioned its ultra modern factory complex at
Arepo, along the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway, Ogun State.

By Innocent Anaba LAGOS – Some shareholders of African Petroleum Plc, who prayed a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to restrain the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) from continuing to retain or permit Alhaji Aliko Dangote to remain/occupy the office of the 1st Vice President and member of the Council of the NSE and deal […]

National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has counselled retiring workers in the country to choose life annuity products from registered life insurance companies.

Given the down turn in the world economy, global attention is increasingly being focused on the manufacturing sector as the panacea for the development of the nation. This is more so for a country like Nigeria that depends solely on oil as a major source of foreign exchange. The fact still remains that it is impossible for us to develop as a nation without a strong manufacturing base.

Available data at the Central Bank (CBN), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), show that Nigeria’s oil export has started to show signs of improvement as it is expected to export 1.98 million barrels per day in September going by orders from oil-importing countries that buys Nigeria’s crude.

Efforts of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) at promoting quality and efficient insurance industry though competent supervision of the sector has been extolled by the Chairman of Staco Insurance Plc, Mr Dere Otubu just as the Staco Insurance posted a gross premium income of N4.4billion in 2008.

Insurance industry may henceforth witness change in attitude of the sector chieftains to industry programmes from poor and half to full participation.
There is likelihood that insurance’s chief executives may give ample time to attending industry’s training programmes in spite of their tight schedules in line with the new vision of the insurance industry.

A culture of propaganda is generally adopted by autocratic and despotic states and institutions to becloud a putrid underlying malaise. In modern times, the regime of Hitler, the German demagogue provides a fine example of the practice of propaganda as a cover up for unspeakable atrocities of heinous crimes against humanity.