Guinness Nigeria Plc, and franchise owners of Diageo brands, the parent company of Guinness International, said it is going to be collaborating with National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on its alcoholic beverage business line.

All over the world, consumer promotion is a contract with the third party, and it is either through advertisements in broadcast stations, print, billboards, posters or flyers.

Savings mobilization for microfinance banks and institutions has been described as a good strategy for effective microfinance operations.

DETERMINED to get redress for alleged breach of due process in securing the party’s flag for the April election, Alhaji Hazeem Gbalorumi, Elder Wole Oyelese and Alhaji Yekeen Adeojo, and 34 others have dragged Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala to the Appeal Court.

Investors from six Latin American & Caribbean countries have called on the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) to give them the opportunity to invest in Nigeria.

Fourty-nine stocks depreciated in price during the week, lower than the 58 of the preceding week. Guinness Nigeria Plc led on the price losers’ table, dropping by N10.13 or 5 per cent to close at N192.62 per share, Oando Plc followed with a loss of N3.00 or 4.29 per cent to close at N67.00 per share and Unilever Nigeria Plc dipped by 2.46 or 8.2 per cent to close at N27.54 per share.

Activities in the stock market crawled last week as market indicators for measuring performance indices, the market capitalisation and the All- Share Index declined by 0.17 per cent each.

Scarcity of funds intensified in the interbank money market last week as the market experienced outflow of about N200 billion which countered the effect of the N285 billion inflows from statutory allocations.

Banks’ debtors have devised new tactics to avoid repayment, a development generating concerns in the industry.

Woolworths Holdings Ltd., a South African food and clothing retailer, is considering opportunities in Nigeria, Mauritius and Angola, as it seeks to increase income from outside its home market.

An expert in the housing sector, Mr Timothy Nubi, says housing finance has not developed enough to drive housing delivery in the country.

The world’s major economies were split down the middle on Friday over how to measure imbalances in the global economy in a bid to avert future financial crises, Japan’s Finance Minister said.

Kogi State governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris has received a review of the $USD 450 million budget of the Confluence Sugar project by Energy and Technology, Corp USA.

Asaba – Few months after the tragic collapse of an overhead tank at College of Education, Agbor which killed five pupils on the 2nd of Novembers last year, a petrol fire has claimed the lives of a 53 year old mother and her daughter in the area.

Owerri – Kidnappers have abducted four members of Amaigbo Town Union during their meeting on Saturday in Amaigbo, headquarters of Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo.