The President and Chairman of Council of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) Ibrahim Tizhe, has confirmed participation as the Chairman of occasion at the ground breaking debate on the brunt of the global economic meltdown on the nation’s ICT industry.

No fewer than 3,645 cardiac cases were recorded at the Reddington Cardiac Centre from 2006 to date, with 408 cases only in 2006.

Indication has emerged that the aggrieved shareholders of Spring Bank Plc may regain their investment from Bank PHB Plc .
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi has said that the aggrieved shareholders of the contentious Spring Bank may be accommodated under the current dispensation following the sack of the managing directors and executive directors Spring Bank and Bank PHB.

Two Petroleum marketing companies, Conoil Plc and African Petroleum Plc, led 40 other listed companies with share price gains, provoking a N15.22 billion appreciation on the total value of listed equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Monday.

President Umaru Yar‘Adua said on Monday that the agricultural sector held the key to rapid economic transformation, poverty alleviation and good governance in Nigeria.

The Lagos mortgage draft bill currently with the State House of Assembly will be ineffective unless the state government creates an Intervention Fund to drive long term mortgage financing.

More than 80% of top economists believe that the recession that started almost two years ago is finally over. But most don’t expect meaningful improvement in jobs, credit or housing for months to come.

The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, has warned that the use of tax consultants to collect internally generated revenue will hamper the country’s growth. Omoigui-Okauru told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos that their involvement in tax collection was promoting corruption, stressing that the use of consultants by the States and Local Governments is not only illegal, but a subversion of the activities of tax officers nationwide.

The Director General, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Professor Tunji Akande said on Monday in Lagos that one of the challenges facing vision 2020 is the absence of industrial core base for effective industrial linkage effects.

Nigerian Eagle Airlines, formerly Virgin Nigeria Airways Ltd, the nation”s fully private sector flag carrier, has introduced new domestic fare pricing structure to further stimulate the market and boost patronage.