Bilkisu Abubakar is one Northern Nigeria female writer, who has employed the tool of creative writing in engaging the discourse of religion, gender and polygamy in the predominantly Islamic North. In this conversation with United States of Americas based literary scholar and writer, Unoma Azuah, how she has successfully done this with her two novels :To Live Again and The Woman in Me.

Centre for Human Development (CHD), organizers of a writing competition to mark Ford Foundation’s 50 years existence in Nigeria with the theme: Nigerian Women: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, had their reasons when they invited University of Lagos lecturer and award-winning author, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, as the Chairperson for the award ceremony.

Political office holders in Nigeria are fond of travelling abroad. When it gets to the extreme with some of them, the media say they are junketing around the world. What provokes the majority of the people is not the amount of money usually expended on the trips. They are particularly angry that the leaders do not care to replicate some of the good things they see and enjoy abroad when they return home.

SENIOR Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, has accused the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, of misleading and misinforming Nigerian public on the planned privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

The absence of the politicians is attributable to the struggle for governorship which has divided the entire Yewa into two camps.

HIS real name is Obioma Nwankwo, alias Osisikankwu, a former hunter and ex-fighter of the Icelander Confraternity, founded by ex-militant leader and Rivers State warlord, Ateke Tom. Between him and 10 other kidnap kingpins, notably, Mopol -a dismissed policeman, Stone, Tallest, 10-10, IK in Ukwa West local government area; Onyeme – a dismissed soldier and King Solomon in Abala; Dan Fryo and Susu in Umuezi axis, Abia State was held captive in the past two years until their handgrip went beyond the elbow region, in the last two to three months.

The Federal Government is seeking proposals from oil companies operating in Nigeria on improved ways of conducting Exploration and Production, E&P, activities to avoid frequent occurrence of oil spills.

The Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has directed operators in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry to comply with the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Content Development Act, NOGICD, in all activities in the sector.

BP last Tuesday posted a 66.5 percent fall in net profit for the third quarter as it took another $7.66 billion pre-tax charge related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, although the company beat analysts’ expectations on some key benchmarks.

SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Nestoil Group have commissioned a permanent offshore field logistics base (FLB) known as the Outstation Permanent Block Wall Accommodation project at Nembe Creek 1.

PUBLIC investment in infrastructure such as concession of lands, industrial parks, utilities; transport, vocational education and training; trade fairs as well as access to risk finance; tax policy; and technology support have been identified as instruments governments use to prevent the risk of ‘Double Market Failure’ in the growing quest for local content development.

The President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Major General Sebastian Owuama, FCA is leading not less than 369 chartered accountants from the West African Sub region to join their counterparts from all over the world for the World Congress of Accountants (WCOA) 2010 holding in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from today till Thursday will hold between November 8 and 11, 2010.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation will promote excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa, says founder and chairman of Heirs Holding, Mr. Tony Elumelu.

Fidson Healthcare Plc, a quoted entity on the Health Care sub sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) has come to stay as a few indigenous company that has weathered the storm given the difficult operating environment over the years as it has recorded an average growth rate of over 20 per cent in six years, says Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Fidelis Ayebae.

The Board of Directors of Vital Products Plc has declared a total dividend of N36.45 million , translating to 2 kobo per share to its shareholders for the year ended 31 March, 2010.