In this interview with Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director of Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International, she speaks on aligning interests especially among NGO management and founders, donors and new investors.

The Lagos State government has initiated moves to enable house owners, who are without valid title documents in government housing estates across the state, to register and/or perfect their documents.

The Federal government has declared support for an initiative targeted at empowering women to become house owners.

Efforts to facilitate the construction of mass housing by the Nigerian government has received a boost, with the unveiling of the Moladi building technology from South Africa, in Lagos, last week.

The federal government is ready to collaborate with Korean investors in the quest to enhance housing delivery to
Nigerians at affordable rates.

Prince Olayewola Shittu is a well known name and a respected freight forwarder in the maritime industry. His company Skelas Group Limited, is a foremost indigenous freight forwarding outfit in the country. In this interview with Vanguard’s Godfrey Bivbere and Ebere Orakpo, he told the story of the struggling days with his wife to build Skelas and the obstacles that they had to face before getting to where the company is today.

Sweet Sensation, a Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) in the hospitality and wellbeing service sector of the economy has received National Agency for Food Drugs and Control’s (NAFDAC) nod for complying with the clean environment policy of the agency, as it plans more outlets.

As the 2010 edition of African Movie Academy Awards hots up the organizers have received over 280 entries across Africa for the event that will take place in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State next month.

For those organisations seeking to get the best of hands in the Sales and Marketing profession field, can now rely on Best
Qualified (BQ) to get the needed hand (s).

In a renewed effort to continually reposition its services for enhanced and efficient customer service delivery, Guaranty Trust Bank has introduced a 24hours toll-free line for its GTConnect Contact Centre.
The bank also said it is reinforcing its Card services unit to offer 24 hours service support to customers.

If the unveiling and the efficacy of brand Lumal, from the production line of SKG- Pharma is anything to go by, then, the brand will become the toast of malaria patients.

Nigerian International Air Courier Association (NIACA) and Association of Nigeria Courier Operators (ANCO) have called for the speedy passage of the Act establishing the Nigeria Postal Commission (NPC) as it seeks to regulate tariff rate in the industry.

“Fuel Subsidy: F.G. Admits N872bn deductions from States and LG Accounts”. The preceding is the title of a story on pg 2 of the 22nd of February 2010 edition of the Punch Newspaper.

By Abdusalam Muhamed , Kano Kano State government has despatched its CSM rapid response team to hamlets and villages to deal with possible outbreak of cerebral spinal meningitis, CSM, following the death of one person in the state. The measure by the state government was a precaution against a recurrence of the outbreak of CSM […]

LOVEWORLD Convocation Arena on Billigsway, Ikeja will today play host to an array of frontline gospel artistes in the country as part of efforts to raise funds for the victims of a devastating earthquake in Haiti. Addressing neswmen in Lagos during the week on the church’s plan to assist displaced children in that country, Deaconness […]