At the just concluded IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washingto, Mr. Bisi Onansanya, Group Managing Director, First Bank Plc, had a brief chat with Nigerian journalist who attended this year’s meeting of global financial egg heads. Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor, was there and captured the brief chat.

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has harped on the urgent need to enlighten insurance directors in Nigeria on the basics of corporate governance code in furtherance of promoting the implementation of the code in the nation’s insurance industry.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has decried the care-free attitude of oil and gas companies operating in the country to the provisions of the Nigerian Content Development, NCD, Act 2010, that deal with succession, capacity and empowerment plans for Nigerians.

An indigenous oil firm, Covalent Oil and Gas Services Limited, has petitioned the Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Inumidun Akanda, to transfer its case with Oceanic Bank Plc, to another judge.

FOLLOWING his resolve to inject new blood into the Unified Local Government Service in the state, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has approved the recruitment of 3,557 staff.

The Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) in collaboration with The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) last week, again demonstrated its readiness to meet its mission of taking art to another level of relevance with the successful hosting of the 1st International Convention on Art and Development (CONADEV), 2010.

AS part of activities marking the 50th independence anniversary of Nigeria, Street Art Gallery in collaboration with Rock View Hotel, Apapa penultimate week presented a 3 day anniversary exhibition titled ,Cultural Tales: 50th Independence Art Exhibition.

A STAFF of Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization,(CBAAC), Dr. Taiwo Oladokun has been awarded the 2010 University of London Post- doctoral Fellowship in African Studies. Based in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University, the fellowship will give Dr. Oladokun the opportunity of furthering his research at SOAS for the next three months.

FOLLOWING his resolve to inject new blood into the Unified Local Government Service in the state, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has approved the recruitment of 3,557 staff.

A university don from the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Prof. Rufus Akinyele, has said following innumerable requests of state creation, the National Assembly should impose a moratorium of 10 years.

VEXED by the media war between the Campaign Organizations of the Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the National Chairman of the Party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo has summoned the Director General of the four presidential aspirants of the party to a truce meeting.

Alhaji Auwal Lawan is the National Coordinator of the Jonathan/Sambo Movement, the first group to organise a major rally to drum up support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential bid and press on him to contest the election.

The sudden death of renowned scholar and professor emeritus of Education, Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa came to me, like every other person who knew him, as a rude shock.

When Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city lost its innocence in the area of violence and especially bomb blasts on October 1, not a few Nigerians were taken aback.

Many of them had have been forced to flee their homes while those who thought they could brave the situation are now gripped by fear. Indeed the flood has been unrelenting in its surge as it continues to wreak havoc on those communities abutting the River Ogun.