A Pan African housing development company, Shelter Afrique, Tuesday in Abuja disclosed that it would spend a total of $20 million on construction of five housing projects in Nigeria this year.

Nigeria is currently wooing Japanese investors to take advantage of the various incentives available in the nation’s Export Processing Zones and invest in the Nigerian economy

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State yesterday commissioned two refurbished refuse compact trucks acquired by the  Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, ASEPA,  for its operations in Aba and Umuahia. ASEPA said the trucks were procured through its internally generated revenue, adding that it could for now,  not afford to procure brand new […]

The Oando Plc Rights Issue which opened three weeks ago is expected to close on Friday. The offer which brought excitement at the stock market when the management of Oando Plc announced plans to float a Rights Issue after the lull experienced in the market last year is expected to boost transaction at the Exchange .

Abbey Building Society Plc has secured a loan facility worth about N1.48 billion ($10 billion) from the Netherlands Development Finance Corporation (NDFC).

The National Bureau of Statistics yesterday announced a 0.3 per cent increase in inflation to 12.3 per cent in January.
According to the Bureau, inflation, which measures the rate of increase in the general prices of goods and services, rose to 12.3 per cent in January from 12 per cent in December.

Following the historic February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State in which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC declared incumbent Governor Peter Obi of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA winner, the camps of some opposition candidates who lost in the contest especially, Dr. Chris Ngige of the Action Congress, AC and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP counterpart, Professor Chukwuma Soludo had been grumbling aloud just as they continued to lament their losses.

YEWA lokan, [Yewa’s turn]. This has been the sing-song of people of Yewa/Awori in the Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State. The refrain is in their quest for the governorship seat come 2011.

A group, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has warned its members operating at the Ports and Terminals Multi-Purpose Services Limited (PTML) to desist from clearing cargoes without proper Customs documentation.

Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is to charge owners of unseaworthy ships forced to the beach from their anchorage at the Lagos break waters the cost of moving them from the beach.

Engr.Solomon Edebiri is the National Chairman of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) and he is one of the young breed politicians gunning for the governorship of Edo State in 2012. Edebiri in this interview with Vanguard, commended the National Assembly for settling the constitutional crisis that arose as a result of the ill-health of President Umaru Yar’Adua.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) through its anti-smuggling monitoring and quick response team, has raked in a total of N2, 043,260,000.00 as seizures in one month as it heightened anti-smuggling operations.

The 10th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, appointed on Friday, January 29, 2010, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe has declared his own vision of the institution

THE amnesty programme created by the Federal Government may have failed as the fishing trawling sub-sector of the Nigerian economy has experienced an upsurge in attacks of fishing vessels.

About two hundred and thirty six candidates from sixty secondary schools in Ilorin took the Cowbell Milk sponsored National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition, (NASSMAC) examination held at Queen Elizabeth School last Saturday in the first stage of the exercise to determine eventual winners of lucrative prizes lined up for the best successful students.