Nestle has opened a new a production facility for powdered milk and a packaging unit for imported Mackintosh’s Quality Street chocolates.

MANUFACTURERS across the country have ranked power supply problems as their topmost worries, revealed NOI/NESG Polls tagged “Eagle 30.”

AHEAD of next week’s planned strike, leaders of the two unions in the nation’s Maritime industry, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and its Senior Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporations, SSACTAC, NPA branch, have directed their zonal leaders in the country to begin mobilisation of members for the commencement of industrial action.

The Executive Director,Inonso Technical and Industrial Company, Mrs. Amaka Chukwuma has urged the Federal Government to muster the courage to discourage importation of finished goods.

Journalists in the print media will converge tomorrow Friday for the second edition of the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award. The event will hold at Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island,Lagos.

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) may soon go in search of investors to fund biogas energy projects to aid operations of its members across the country.

The lack of micro-credit laws in many African countries is denying millions of the continent’s poor access to loans, a Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus, has said. Yunus, who won a Nobel Prize in 2006 for championing tiny loans to the poor in Bangladesh, is now pioneering an idea he calls “social business” as a way to fight poverty around the world — business not for profit but to solve social problems.

Westminster College, Lagos, one of the top secondary schools in the country, is in partnership with 20 overseas universities that will give direct admission to students for courses of their choice on successful completion of the university foundation programme at the college.

The N40 billion which the Katsina State government pumped into the education sector in the last two years has led to enrolment increase at both primary and secondary school levels.

The recent poor performance of the nation in football and other sporting activities has been blamed on neglect of the grass-root by those in authority.