Introduction Many firms have run into trouble due to risk management failures. However, where risk management failures are accompanied by corporate governance failures, the lethal combination has caused swift demise.

Twenty seven years after managing the bureau of Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Brown Card Insurance Scheme, NICON Insurance has handed over the management of the bureau to Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA).

WITH the number of physically challenged groups of persons constituting 25% of the total Nigerian populace, the Senate Committee Chairman on Communications, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu has said that the Senate and other arms of government would ensure that relevant policies and regulations are put in place to provide specially designed ICT needs of these groups.

ONE would have just concluded that the best place for a lawyer to show his turf is at the court room. But, what MTN’s Sales and Distribution Executive, Mr Mike Ikpoki, is doing with Bizlift, a project created by MTN to reach its sales retailers, particularly the umbrella and roadside resellers, is telling a different story.

BEFORE the wounding up of Etisalat’s 9jillions game show promo at the weekend, the argument had been whether a telecommunications company would actually doll out to a subscriber, a whopping one million US dollars ($1m), which translates to about one hundred and Fifty million naira (N150m), in Nigeria’s currency.