Senator Barnabas Gemade, erstwhile federal cabinet member, first freely elected national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and now Senator representing the Benue Northeast senatorial district has distinguished himself in his engineering profession and his political proclivities.
As Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) of the Benue Cement Company, BCC between 1985 and 1992 he is believed to have laid the foundation for the emergence of that company as the biggest and most successful industrial enterprise in the middle belt

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.