Chair of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF), Rona Yircali, recently met with chamber organisations in Asia and Africa in a bid to strengthen the global chamber network and garner insight into chamber needs in those regions.

Committed towards Nigerian youths empowerment, employees of Microsoft Nigeria under its Diversity Programme, has donated learning materials to Comprehensive Senior Secondary School Alapere including a standard library of books with reading tables and chairs.

IN the wake of one of the most challenging years in business history, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on G8 and G20 leaders, met in Toronto to take action in three areas that are crucial to the future of the world economy: International trade and investment; climate change and energy; and intellectual property and innovation.

The inability of the Super Eagles to qualify from its group here in Durban at the ongoing 2010 FIFA World Cup Tuesday night has dealt a big blow to organizer of the Naija Fan Village.

Tourists visiting the country during the World Cup period have been warned not to fall prey to people offering them currency conversions through the black market, police said on Monday.

A released data by Visa has shown that South Africa saw a 34 percent increase in inbound tourism spending during the first quarter of 2010, and anticipates additional growth opportunities at the on going 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Rockview, one of Nigeria’s foremost hospitality group has opened another hotel in Apapa, Lagos, four years after the group first outlet was opened in Festac Town, Lagos in 2006.

The managing director of Integrated Microfinance Bank, Mr. Adamu Ibrahim, has said microfinance banks (MFBs) can fight poverty if appropriate structures and the needed expertise are put in place.

Shareholders of Total Nigeria Plc have asked its Board of Directors to come up with a Right Issue that will enable them increase their stake, just as they commended the performance of the company for the financial year ended December 2009.

May and Baker Nigeria Plc has declared its willingness to access the N40 billion international funds, even as it intensify effort to complete the construction of its ultra modern pharmaceutical plant by September 2010.

The declining fortune of the key performance indicators of the Nigerian Stock Exchange continued, Wednesday, as the market capitalisation and All-share index both dropped by 0.78 per cent each, leading to a decline in equities’ value by N48.91 billion.

Oceanic Bank Plc on Tuesday announced its inability to give a bonus of one for 10 earlier promised its shareholders. The Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, who made the announcement in Lagos, explained that the bank could not meet its promises because it was technically insolvent.

A controversial plan to allow developing countries to raise tariffs temporarily to cope with a destabilising flood of food imports or drop in food prices would actually have little impact on trade flows, a new study shows.

The Managing Director of Total Nig. Plc, Mr Domnique Thorlorn, says that the deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the oil industry will boost the nation’’s economy and attract foreign investment. Thorlorn spoke in Lagos on Tuesday at a dinner held ahead of his company’’s annual general meeting slated for Wednesday. He said that the […]

As part of its efforts at tackling problem of unemployment in the state, the Bauchi State Commission for Youth and Women Rehabilitation and Development, BACYWORD, has trained 261,000 youths and women in various developmental programmes, just as it plans to enroll more people in the training for the remaining part of the year.