Tourist boards must carry on investing to promote their destinations, despite the recession.That was the call from speakers at World Travel Market’s first WTM Vision conference in London.‘It is not a time to be a shrinking violet,’ said Peter Shanks, Carnival UK chief commercial officer.

Before his appointment as the General Manager of Abuja Sheraton Hotel, Danish national Mr. Morten Ebbesen also held same position at the Corinthia Hotels International, comprising the five_star Corinthia Beach Resort, Corinthia Hotel St George’s Bay and the adjoining Marina Hotel.

The Acting Director_General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Daisy Ekineh, was Wednesday in Tel_Aviv, Israel, elected Chairman of the Africa and Middle East Regional Committee (AMERC) of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

As part of efforts to foster a cashless economy by encouraging the adoption and preference for card transactions in the Nigeria, Diamond Bank PLC has concluded plans to participate actively at the 2009 CardExpo Africa.
The Bank will be participating as a Platinum Sponsor at the event billed to hold in Lagos from June 16 to June 18, 2009 and will have an exhibition stand at the three day event.

THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and major stakeholders in the Agriculture sector yesterday urged the Federal government to as a matter of urgency bring up modalities that would increase the competitiveness of agro business especially in the face of the present global economic meltdown.

The bearish trend in the Nigerian capital market continued Wednesday, as the value of listed equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) dipped by N24.77 billion.

The strategic Relationship between Nigeria and China will be further strengthened as Mr. Jiang Jianqing, Chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Limited, visits the country.

Seven out of ten Africans earn their living by farming. According to researchers, the market for milk, meat, and staple food crops like maize, banana, sorghum, rice and millet within Africa is estimated at USD$150 billion a year—far exceeding Africa’s market for internationally traded cash crops like coffee, tea, and flowers. A year of record high food prices presents a unique challenge and opportunity for Africa. To benefit, African farmers must produce more food, but more importantly, they must have access to markets to sell their harvests at prices that benefit farmers and consumers.

The President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Dr Abdullahi Adamu, said on Thursday in Abuja that more than 90 million Nigerians were under the threat of food insecurity.

Drug hawkers in Kaduna have defiled the ban placed by NAFDAC by selling drugs in the open markets, investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has shown.

A flurry of cases on “mysterious” disappearance of funds from bank accounts will soon be in the courts as bank customers insist on refunds for monies that were released by the banks without their authorisation NAN has reported
According to NAN’s report Bank customers have been complaining of unauthorised huge draw downs on their accounts in the last one year.

Operators in the micro-finance sector have criticized the N50 billion micro-credit fund set up by the Federal government as a political gimmick as only few microfinance banks have been able to access it.

By Ignatius Orisewezie THIS game called politics is a race for popularity in which citizens enthrone those they can trust. And the trust is earned like the father’s love. As Robert Frost said, you have to earn and deserve your father’s love but not that of your mother.

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — Traditional rulers and Muslim leaders in the 19 northern states yesterday advised lawmakers in the country to be cautious in their efforts to amend the 1999 Constitution as well as make laws for the country, saying divine (Islamic) laws were superior to man-made laws. They spoke under the auspices of […]

FOR the legislative arm of our civil rule, the beginning was nothing less than troubled. It was a time when the first speaker, Ibrahim Salisu Buhari, also known as Imam, was found to have lied about his educational qualification in order to get into the House in the first place.