The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has stated that companies seeking to get expatriate quota approvals for their operations in the oil and gas industry must first advertise the positions to Nigerians through national and international media outfits.

THE dream of Messrs Nice Dreams Properties Limited to provide affordable housing for middle income earners in the Lagos area is gradually yielding positive results.

Russia may raise its oil export duty in December by around four percent to between $302 to $304 per tonne, following an increase in oil prices to a two_year high.

THEEkulo Cheyenne, a pipe laying badge recently acquired by Kaztec Engineering Ltd, a subsidiary of the oil and gas Chrome Group, has completed the installation of the topside on Addax Petroleum Development Corporation platform for its Oil Mining Lease, OML 123 operations.

A SUM of N150 billion (about $100 million ) would be required to successfully execute the proposed construction of Trans-Saharan Highway project.

Larfarge WAPCO Plc, a quoted entity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has disclosed that it has spent over 150 million Euro (N31,350,000,000) on Research and Development (R&D) in producing the Elephant Supaset cement.

Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have regained confidence in the capital market as a result of the strong market performance which started last week Tuesday, despite the fact that the market opened on red note.

THE expansion of the Lekki – Epe expressway has been riddled with controversy since the concessionaire, Messrs Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC) announced its intention to commence tolls collection.

The capital market is a good platform for companies to showcase themselves and move the Nigerian economy forward, says Managing Director/CEO, Afrinvest West Africa, Mr.Ike Chioke.

SILVERBIRD is at it again! The outfit owned by entertainment guru, Ben Murray- Bruce during its 30th anniversary, unveiled the model of what would be Africa’s tallest building.

PARTICIPANTS in the just-concluded 7th International Confere-ce and Exhibition, in Abuja, were thrown into confusion by claims and counter claims of budgetary appropriation by the National Assembly for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC gas projects.

The World Bank has indicated plans to approve early next year, an additional $80 million credit for the development of Nigeria’s Solid Minerals sector.

Having a child is probably the biggest life change you could ever experience, whether as a man or as a woman. The reasons for this point of view are pretty obvious. Parenting is most obviously an enormous, 24-hour responsibility and, whichever way one looks at it; it is really a life-long commitment.

HON. ENEBE CLETUS ONYEKWELU began his career as a civil servant with the Enugu State Ministry of Education in the early 90s and later moved over to the Ministry of health where he retired after 15 years of service and went into the private sector.

But for the tardiness surrounding preparations for the 2011 general elections, signs that the exercise would be one of the keenest contested polls in the country are palpable.