A novel advertising medium  has debuted at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Christened the Multimedia Digital Mega Screen, the new advertising platform is the latest initiative of Promoworld Nigeria Limited, the company which specializes in creating and deploying custom and purpose — built advertising for airports in Nigeria.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Friday decried the “very low” performance of the industrial sector in the second quarter of the year.

The newly appointed Managing Director of First Bank PLC, Mr. Stephen Onasanya, will be at the Nigerian- British Business Day, Tuesday, to deliver an annual lecture tagged “Access to capital in the wake of global meltdown”
The event will hold at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Anyone who has ever been involved in the tedious and uncertain journey of conceiving and bringing a consumer product to birth successfully in the market place, particularly in this country will have a story replete with never say die endurance, family deprivation, inaccessible funding, local and state government extortion, etc, etc, to tell to anyone who cares to listen.

The energy drink market re-focused penultimate week when Thunder energy drink entry into the beverage market courtesy Sunola Foods Limited, producers and marketers of Sunola edible oil changed market indices.

As the new CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, settles down to duties and unveils his plans for the nation’s monetary and fiscal direction, stakeholders in the micro-finance sector have called for a review of the micro-finance policy, Amaka Agwuegbo reports Micro-Finance Banks, MFBs, operators see great wisdom in the micro-finance policy of the former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor that led to the establishment of micro-finance banks across the country. They believe that by that decision, banking services was brought to millions of Nigeria’s un-banked population.

Soklin, a product of Eko Supreme Resources Nigeria Ltd said it is now positioned to regain leadership of the detergent market.

Since we are so helpless, I need time to go back to my village and consult, ask for that Dele Giwa type scenario where the gods of the land decreed that whosoever killed the ace journalist will run out onto the streets, naked. I want to consult and get assurance that if Akwa United two seasons ago and Zamfara now did fix their matches, soon, very soon, let them come out confessing. I will wait for that to happen.

The three Oceanic Bank employees that have been in police custody since May 28, 2009 were on Friday granted bail by a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

There are investment opportunities in the concession of major transportation infrastructure in the country; the rapidly growing middle class also presents opportunities in the retail banking segment and the bank seems set to play bigger role in these areas, Lucky Fiakpa writes Stanbic IBTC Set for Bigger Role in the Economy

Oando Plc has announced an increase in its Profit After Tax (PAT) for its audited reports for the financial year ended December 31, 2009, with a 52% increase in the Group’s net profit.

He added: “The problem we are having too is that the officials in the Nigerian Embassy here are making matters worse for us. What they do is to collect money individually from our relations before they will go and ask for the release of anyone instead of seeking for the release of all of us like the Kenyan Government and others did.

The work of the Amnesty sub-committee, headed by Okiro, according to the report is to cost “N966,000,000:00, after the deduction of the proposed take-off grant.”

FOR the purpose of this discourse, in pursuance of our goal of celebrating the personages who changed the course of humanity through peaceful protest like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr. and because protest is the immediate cause of kidnapping in Nigeria, we shall stay with the political activists who kidnap men, women and children for political reasons, that is the idealists and pseudo- activists.

The Federal government has sealed partnership agreements with ten private real estate developers and investors under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, to deliver 16 housing projects in five states across the country and the federal capital territory (FCT). The beneficiary states are Adamawa, Niger, Osun, Ogun and Ondo.