Nigeria is to host the first AU-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) meeting on external debt management in the first quarter of 2011, Mr Goodie Ibru, has said. Ibru, the Chairman of NEPAD Business Group Nigeria, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Director-General, Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr Abraham Nwankwo.

Nigeria’s biggest cement producer Dangote Cement has applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to merge its operations with Benue Cement , the commission said on Monday.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has approved sweeping changes in the nation’s Armed Forces, with the sacking of all service chiefs, Inspector General of Police, IGP, and Director-General of the State Security Service, SSS.

These graduates are found to be deficient in several area of professional practice leading to huge criticisms by employers of labour who had to spend a huge budget to retrain these graduates.

Rapid economic growth and its sustainability as well as the empowerment of the citizenry, which are indices of national development, have continued to elude Nigeria because of the lip service being paid to science and technology.