Nigeria’s capacity to move and connect manufacturers with international markets around the world was still low, the World Bank has said.The bank disclosed this in its 2010 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) released in Abuja, recently.

Profiliant Development Resources Limited, a sales and business development consultancy, has finalised plans to hold this year’s edition of the Anatomy-of-Selling (AOS) programme.

Dr Teslim Sanusi, President, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), on Wednesday urged the National Assembly not to repeal the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Sanusi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the move would further have a negative effect on industry. Sanusi said that s

Barely 24 hours after armed gunmen launched a vicious attack on the Amassoma branch of the United Bank For Africa, UBA, in the Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa State in which five persons, including two policemen and an eight months old baby lost their lives, an unknown gunmen struck yet again Wednesday at Opolo in the heart of Yenagoa, the state capital and abducted Mrs. Florentina Emmanuel, the 73-year-old mother of a National Assembly member, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, representing Bayelsa Central senatorial district.

A Climatologist, Prof. Temi Ologunorisa, on Wednesday, advised Nigerians to find ways to mitigate the effects of the prevailing heat conditions. The expert told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the excessive heat being experienced in most parts of the country was part of the effects of global warming.

Over 5,000 members of ‘Project Mutu 2011’ in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State have endorsed the member representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, Mr . Nicholas Mutu to re-run, come 2011 general elections.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged Commissioners in the state to regularly organise training workshops for their staff to enhance capacity building as well as to clearly provide leadership for the workforce.

The global economy is recovering, part-ly due to the fiscal and monetary support. The cost of combating the crisis around the world runs into trillions of dollars, but recovery would have been slower without the policy support, IMF economists say.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board approved on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 in Tunis, the institution’s 2010-2014 Agricultural Sector Strategy.

Chief Economist and Head, Group Market Risk Management, Access Bank, Dr Emmanuel Moore Abolo, has said that the proposed Asset Management Company is critical to the recovery of the banking sector and the economy.