For the Nigerian insurance industry to enhance its growth prospect in the nation’s economy, insurance brokers are to strengthen their roles in developing local potential, according to experts.

The Airtel 2SIM offer comes with two matching numbers in one single starter pack and gives Airtel customers on the package access to benefits including 1 Kobo per second midnight call rate to SIM partner, 10 Kobo per second call rate to SIM partner. and 120 free monthly SMS. The new product is currently available to pre-paid customers.

Over 15 cars, including a Toyota landcruiser, were what Etisalat required to increase its brand equity when the telecommunication firm which has hit 6.8 million subscribers level rewarded its trade partners for making the achievement possible.

Growth will slow from 7.3 per cent in 2010 to 6.3 per cent between 2011 and 2013, as developing countries including Nigeria reach full capacity according to the World Bank. As a result of the decline in the growth of developing countries, the World Bank advised developing countries to focus on tackling country-specific challenges such as achieving balanced growth through structural reforms.

The President of the Nigeria Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Mr. Yakubu Maikano, has said that the on-going land reforms being undertaken by the Federal Government will help in opening the country’s land market.

Board of Directors of GBC-Health, an organisation that mobilises business for a healthier world, has elected the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, the organisation’s co-chairman.

Nigerian housewives know too well that sinking feeling when all items on the household shopping list cannot be covered by the regular budget. Our womenfolk have since become past masters (or mistresses) of the rigours of creative adjustment. The options are well defined, either cut down or do without some of the basic items in the food basket or make do with less preferred but cheaper substitutes.

Four states of the federation, namely Enugu, Kaduna, Oyo and Rivers states have been given 14 days ultimatum to release information and documents on spending on primary education in their respective states over the years.

A Nigerian,Bidemi Bello, 41, has been convicted in the USA by a federal jury on charges of two counts of forced labour, two counts of trafficking for forced labour, one count of document servitude, one count of alien harbouring, and two counts of making false statements in a U.S. citizenship application. The trial lasted one week. Theformer Suwanee […]

GROUP MANAGING Director [GMD], Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC], Engr. Augustine Oniwon has said that it was not going to be business as usual in the corporation as the corporation has embarked on transformation that would lead to growth of the petroleum industry.

Prominent Nigerians and former international heaped praises on former national team captain, Nwankwo Kanu who retired from international football Saturday.

MARITIME Workers of Nigeria, MWUN, has secured a N5million compensation for the family of late Taiwo Olakunle, who died as a result of an industrial accident at Tin Can Island Container Terminal Limited, TICTL on May 31, 2011.

THE National Chairman of Peoples Progressive Alliance, PPA, Chief Sam Nkire, has advised Governor Rochas Okorocha not to be in a hurry to correct the ills of the immediate past administration of Ikedi Ohakim in order to avoid mistakes.

SOUTH East Political Leaders rose from a closed door meeting in Enugu Sunday with a call for the review of the revenue sharing formula to enable the states meet their financial obligations including the payment of the new N18,000 minimum wage.

The Economic and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, has Sunday, arrested the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Usman Nafada.