Nestle Nigeria Plc, has reiterated its commitment to youth empowerment and economic development, as it announced the launch of the second edition of its talent-hunt show that is designed to engage the youths in the country in meaningful productive activities and grow its businesses.

Tunde Falasinmu has been appointed Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of African Petroleum Plc (AP), a position formerly occupied by Mr. Femi Otedola.

I do not envy acting President Goodluck Jonathan. The politics swirling around him at the moment is a vicious one. Nobody is willing to risk vesting him with full Executive powers. The Yar’Adua cabal (as the Information Minister called them) is keen to keep the President in the picture as both a check on the acting President and also to safeguard their own jobs and political influence. The North is keen to keep the President in the picture to prevent Goodluck from growing political ambitions for 2011 since Nigeria has not yet seen a situation where the incumbent failed to get the party ticket.

DORA Akunyili needs no introduction. She is a stallion in her own right. She made her mark as a woman of integrity as witnessed by her performance in her days at NAFDAC. A no nonsense lady and she almost put her life on the line in her war against fake foods and drugs.

Sometime last week, someone, somewhere, decided to bring back our dear and beloved President to his fatherland in circumstances that have triggered further debate as to our ability to manage our affairs as ordered by the extant Constitution. Lest we forget, our President whose movement ordinarily, ought to be accompanied by a dignified measure of pomp and pageantry was brought through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in the dead of night.

A bill for an act to establish the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCN) passed through second reading at the Senate on Wednesday. Leading the debate on the bill, Senate leader, Teslim Folarin, said the AMCN was conceived by the Federal Government as part of the on-going reforms of the banking sector.

It is no longer in dispute that Nigeria is in the group of countries referred to as Banana Republics.

Participants at the High Level Conference on the Development of Agribusiness and Agro-industries (HLCD-3A) on Wednesday endorsed an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food security in Africa.

The personal Physician to the ailing President Umar Yar’ Adua, Dr. Saliyu Banye has been asked to immediately write and sworn to a statement on the medical records of President Umaru Yar’ Adua to allow Nigerians, especially the National Assembly to decide whether the President is capable of continuing to perform his constitutional duty.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Wednesday in Abuja that it had earmarked $2 billion for the development of agriculture in Africa in the next five years.

FOR the nation to be long to the league of 20 largest economies in the world by the year 2020, Nigeria must as a matter of urgency diversify her economic base by developing and promoting its non-oil exports, the Executive Director/CEO of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. David I. Adulugba has said.

MINISTER of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa has said that the forthcoming USA-Nigeria Business Forum will not only boost business between the two countries but also improve diplomatic relations between them.

To Judge is to decide the claims of others with reference to the expectations of an audience that defines the process of decision. Expectations, not precepts create the need for judgment.

Worried by the inability of Nigerian entrepreneurs to maximize the benefits of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has proposed a special incentive package for the over 500 trainees, who graduated from the Human Capital Development Centre (HCDC) popularly called the AGOA Training School, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Justice Josephine Oyefeso of an Ikeja High Court has fixed May 4 for the adoption of written addresses in a N535,000 fraud case against a former staff of First Inland Bank, Seun Shonibare.