Business and government leaders will gather in Lagos on January 11th and 12th to discuss Nigeria’s economic and business prospects at the 2010 CEO Agenda Nigeria forum. The event is organised by Economist Conferences, a division of the United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

With assets base of about N20billion, Niger Insurance is set for 2010 business opportunities which the company had garnered over the past five years built on its legacy of trust and ethical values.

Shareholders have commended Industrial And General Insurance Plc (IGI), for the company’s results_oriented local and continental business expansion programme, which yielded great dividends in terms of the size of the balance sheet, Group profit and stakeholder value in spite of the harsh operating environment in 2008.

Nigerian insurance chief executive officers are to gather in Cameroon March this year for a two-day seminar on Global Financial Crisis: Challenges for the African Insurance Industry.

Efforts by Nigeria’s association of insurers to get underwriters comply with market agreement reached last year may have suffered setbacks as unconfirmed reports say players do not trust each to play according to rules but are continuing the business of premium purchase this renewals.

Insurance brokers are set tocorrect the image problem confronting the broking arm this year following the several accusations of non-remittance of premium and sidelining brokers in business dealings

Intercontinental Wapic Insurance Plc, has said that it total asset rose to N12.9bn in 2008, 6.6 per cent above of N12.1bn in 2007.

CENTRAL Banks ofemerging market countries have cut down their dollar reserve for the second consecutive quarter, says Goldman Sachs Group In

The 2010 Appropriation Bill (“Appropriation Bill”) like previous Appropriation Bills, is stated to aim at channeling public resources towards areas that make the greatest contribution to government’s economic-wide objectives. That is, fiscal discipline at the macroeconomic level, allocative efficiency at the sectoral level and operational efficiency at the organizational level.

A study on the impact of agricultural research on productivity and poverty in sub_Saharan Africa (SSA) shows that agricultural research is reducing the number of poor people in the region by 2.3 million annually.

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources plans to auction about 1,000 tractors and implements purchased in 2007 at the cost of N6 billion, an investigation by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has revealed.

Ekiti State government has concluded plans to establish an integrated bio-gas powered Cassava processing facility in Arugba, a town in Omuo_Ekiti in collaboration with a private company, Arog Bio Allied Agro Services.

ASSOCIATION of Stock broking Houses of Nigeria (ASHON) has pledged to work closely with the regulators in the Nigerian capital market to curb or minimise sharp practices among operators in the market in 2010

INVESTORS shied away from Federal Government Bonds last week, as the volume and value of bonds traded in the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Bond market dropped by 78.85 per cent and 79.06 per cent respectively

The incumbent Minister of Sports, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, yesterday, begged an Abuja high court sitting in Maitama to dismiss a suit instituted by former Chairman of Gombe State Football Association, Alhaji Gara Gombe, seeking to stop him from contesting election into the office of the President of National Olympic Committee (NOC).