NO other issue is as topical in the country today as the Boko Haram. Not even the screening of the ministerial nominees in the National Assembly has enjoyed such attention.

The Oshodi/Apapa Ex-pressway, which leads to the biggest sea port in the West African, has completely failed after about 30 years of use.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, alerting him of plots by some highly placed individuals in the Presidency to establish another Maritime Security and Safety Agency after it was unanimously rejected by stakeholders at a public hearing in 2010.

There is disquiet in the Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chapter over choice of commissioners to serve in Governor Jonah Jang’s cabinet for his second term, as many of those expected to make the list might have been dropped.

Anxiety has enveloped insurance companies that bided for the federal government’s compulsory Group Life cover for civil servants for year 2011, as they anxiously await the Head of Service to make its choices public by month end.

A rebound was recorded in the fortunes of the Nigerian capital market, last week, as the value of listed equities dipped by N29.92 billion.

Some existing shareholders in Intercontinental Bank may have buckled under the weight of pressure from the CBN to accept the acquisition of the bank by Access Bank Plc.

Guaranty Trust Bank, GTBank, Plc has concluded arrangements to sell its insurance subsidiary, Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc to a Mauritius firm, Assur Africa Holding, AAH, comprising three private equity funds and three international developmental finance institutions based in United Kingdom, France, Tunisia and Germany.

Firms exposed to various risks of their liability, property illness and disability of their employ ees and life of key employees, have possibility of managing those risks and transfer to insurance companies.

Mr. Ben Omakor is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Gestalt IT Limited, an IT training and development institute, and Dickson Jones Properties Limited, based in Lagos.

In order to ameliorate the pang of poor electricity supply, Primlaks Group of Companies has restated its commitment to the provision of affordable products to Nigerians, as d.light solar lantern is introduced.

Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has disclosed that its Founding Patron and renowned Harvard Business School Professor, Michael E. Porter, will participate in workshops and address the Foundation’s first class of interns, capping the inaugural African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP) that has placed some of the world’s brightest young business students in executive suites in African- owned businesses across the continent.

The Federal Government has signed into law the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) Bill 2011. The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, disclosed this weekend, during a one-day workshop titled Attracting Investments into Nigeria, organised by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment.

An estate surveyor and valuer, Mr. Chudi Ubosi, has lamented the paltry contribution of property tax to the overall revenue of states in Nigeria, put at less than 2 percent.

Arrangements by the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) to arrest advertising practitioners who refused to conform to the Nigerian Code of Advertising Practice and Sales Promotion and the Nigerian Advertising Laws, Rules and Regulations has begun, as it congratulates Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria’s (AAAN) new president.