REACTIONS and opposition continued to trail the newly approved Cargo Tracking Levy, which has been described as illegal. Some operators are of the opinion that it will make the nation’s ports unfriendly and costly.

Preparatory to its plan to go public (also known as demutualisation), Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke, yesterday allayed fears that the Exchange will not be hijacked by few money bags as being speculated.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), said its 49th Annual General Meeting / conference holding next week in Abuja will be declared opened by the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

In June 2008, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) entered into a strategic partnership with the Delta State Government of Nigeria for youth empowerment and conflict resolution in the country’s most restive region. The collaboration is significant not just because oil extraction in the Niger Delta region sustains the national economy, but because it is critical to poverty reduction and sustainable economic and human development.

”Even in totalitarian states, the time comes when past errors are admitted. In Nigeria , we fail to establish a climate of inquiry.When power is placed in the service of vicious reaction a language must be called into being which does its best to appropriate such obscenity of power and fling its excesses back in its face.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry(LCCI), has faulted the continued dominance of the down stream oil sector by the NNPC.

Following Nigeria’s inclusion in United States ‘Terror List’, insurers fear that 2011 renewals may see reinsurers increasing prices on risks generated in Nigeria if the rating is not reversed.

Owing to worsening remittances of employees’ contributions to their retirement savings account, National Pension Commission may begin prosecution of companies during the first quarter of this year to improve assets of pension funds.

By Taye Obateru & Adedoyin Ojosipe Jos — Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, Professor Sonni Tyoden, has said the successful completion of an Information and Communication Techno-logy, ICT, Project in the Department of Mathematics of the university to boost interactive teaching would uplift educational standard in the institution. He stated this yesterday, during a […]

By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The member representing Ikeduru constituency in Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Sam Anyanwu, says the sad event of 25 December 2009, is not in the character of Nigerians. The lawmaker re-echoed the feelings of his colleagues at a reception organised in Owerri by Champion Publisher, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, for the visiting […]