When government announced the transfer of operatorship of Shell’s assets in Ogoni land, in view of the crises which saw the killing of prominent Ogoni men during the Gen. Sani Abacha’s regime, the community thought they would have a say in whom the new operator is.

A primary mortgage institution (PMI), Jubilee_Life Savings and Loans Limited, is set to unveil its newly developed N1.4 billion estate in Shasha area of Lagos State.

Lagos, the industrial, commercial and economic capital of Nigeria has a complex, often bizaare networks of roads, mostly characterised by deep pot holes, ditches and mini-gulleys that are death traps of road users across the sprawling metropolis.

DUE to my CAF assignment I could not make the swearing in ceremony of the technical committee of the Nigeria Football federation. I remember calling the chairman of the committee Chris Green to offer my apologies. However, he told me to promise that I will be present for the interview session with the coaches. I promised.

“Look at these thieves in uniform, is that what they are employed to do?” asked Mr. Babs in a very angry tone as a vehicle belonging to one of the security outfits in Lagos, Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) drove past in the opposite direction along the Agege – Iju-Ishaga road, carrying some members of the group and laden with so many loaves of bread of different makes and sizes, obviously seized from traders.

The statistics are damning no doubt, that about 53.6 million Nigerians go to bed hungry every night, United Nations survey reveals. The above figure form nearly 45 percent of the total population of a nation with the highest proportion of black population in the world,
As if this is not bad enough, 70 per cent of the about 150 million Nigerians live below globally accepted survival line of one dollar or N150 per day. As a Chinese proverb puts it, ‘Teach a man to fish and he will feed a nation’

The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a private developer to construct three million housing units for civil servants across the country within the next four years.

“In the wake of the recent Central Bank’s pseudo liberalisation of dollar supply to the foreign exchange market, naira rate tumbled from over N148=$1 to today’s rate of about N150=$1 in the black market, leaving a spread of just about N2 from the official rate. Ordinarily, this should confirm the success of ongoing economic reforms to eliminate multiple exchange rates and the attendant distortions in our national economy; but there may be some lessons to be learnt from a closer evaluation of how this apparent ‘magic’ has come about, given that black market rate had never in the history of the naira suffered such a fall in so short a time.

The Nigerian Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) has put machinery in motion to teach marketing to Nigerian students through the establishment of NIMN Chapters in tertiary institutions.

Landlords in the country are in for a shocker if they think they can escape compulsory insurance of building and building under constructions as they have less than five months from now to insure their buildings. This is in view of the March 2011 deadline for execution of penalties against any defaulters of that session of Insurance Act,

Panda Event complex, a corporate function event centre has opened shop in lagos, as it promises excellent services. Chief. Willy Obi, Managing Director of the centre, said the complex has the capacity to accommodate 3,000 persons.

This admission by a captain of industry confirms the essential suspicion about the quality of education in Africa’s second largest economy.

One of the airlines involved in this year’s Hajj airlift, Medview Airlines, has said the homeward journey of Nigerian pilgrims from Saudi Arabia would be on first-go-first-come basis.

Miss Abimbola Jasmine Akinnuoye is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sephsons Nigeria Limited, a public relations outfit. The 2008 graduate of Accountancy from Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, in a chat with Vanguard recently spoke on why she ventured into the world of public relations and the challenges she has had to face. Excerpts:

The Federal Government may have decided to hand over the oil and gas assets of the Shell Petroleum Development Company , SPDC, to a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.