South Africa wants to increase the number of foreign tourist arrivals into the country to 15 million by 2020, up from its seven million figure in 2009, President Jacob Zuma said. Zuma spoke at the signing ceremony to mark South Africa’s entry into the UN World Tourism Organisation’s Golden Book’in Cape Town.

The Global Environment Facility(GEF) and the government of Cuba are set to implement a four-year (2011-2015) energy efficiency project in Nigeria.

The Nigerian economy will change if there can be an effective and efficient implementation of its planned policies, says the World Bank.

The Nigerian Institute of Management is canvassing for laws that will protect the nation’s foreign reserves from recurrence of depletion.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) isto license independent firms to roll out Point of Sale (PoS) terminals across the country, in a bid to ensure effective implementation of the limits on cash transactions.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State said weekend he was committed to the continuation of the president of the senate, Senator David Mark, having provided exemplary leadership in the last four years.

Investment & Allied Assurance Plc (IAA) has been run by an interim management since the 23rd of February this year. The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) appointed the interim management after it discovered a N26 billion fraud. ROSEMARY ONUOHA spoke to the interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Yomi Rufai and he bared his mind on some of the challenges the interim management is confronting.

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has adopted the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework in line with the directive of the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, that all insurance companies in the country should before the end of Year 2011, set in place an ERM machinery as a way of ensuring that the insurance business in the country is professionally anchored on the tenets of international best

Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, CCII, weekend, threw its weight behind the governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, for the passage of the contoversial law that rotates the chairmanship seat of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs.

A group in the South West under the aegis of Jonathan/Sambo Youth Support Movement has called for joint police and military team to disarm illegal armed persons and groups across the country.

THE employment of 20,000 youths by Governor Rauf Aregbesola under the Osun Youths Empowerment Scheme, OYES, has earned him recognition in the United Kingdom.

OVER five hundred militants under the aegis of the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters, in Ikoro Camp 1, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, weekend, expressed their desire to embrace the Federal Government’s amnesty programme, citing the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the just concluded presidential election as reason for their decision.

Incidence of bribes and delays has significantly increased across African borders, a report on road governance has said. The observation is contained in the report of a survey conducted on road governance, jointly published by USAID and West Africa Economic and Monetary Union, UEMOA. The survey was conducted between October and December 2010.

Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has said that government approved the increase in terminal charges for private terminal operators to enable them meet the clamour for increase in wages for labour engaged at the various ports.

NIGER Delta Nationalities Forum in Lagos State, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to pay more attention on energy as a way of moving the country forward.