Nigeria will soon learn and domesticate Egypt’s method in rice production and processing, an official has said.
Mr Sheu Dikko, the Managing Director of Deansheranger Project Ltd., the company that took over Badeggi Rice Mill in Niger State, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that Egyptian rice experts have had a discussion with Nigerian officials in that regard.

Managing Director/Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria, Mr. Christopher Knight, has called for policy to provide support for risky businesses as part of measures to unlock the flow of banks’ credit to those areas.

The former Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Apostle Hayford Alile, is set to launch a foundation that will help project his ideas of reinventing Nigeria and promote economic development.

Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, is a renowned constitutional lawyer and leading human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner. He was one of the few who dared the military eye-ball to eye-ball during successive military juntas. He suffered many detentions in the process. Called to the Nigerian Bar 29 years ago, the author and notary public of Nigeria who was twice honored as Senior Advocate of the masses (SAM) by the Ogun State University Students Union (2000) and by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANs) (2005) and also honoureed by NANs in 2003 as a Senior Advocate of Nigerian Students (SANS) was only last week honored with the highest and prestigious title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He is therefore entitled to wear the silk and sit at the inner bar.

The declining trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) continued for the second day running, as the value of listed equities dipped, Wednesday, by N27.65 billion.