FIVE Nigerians have been appointed departmental heads in Airtel Nigeria and Sierra-Leone, in what the telecommunications company said is part of the firm’s goal of identifying, targeting and recruiting top Nigerian talents and providing them opportunities for growth, develop leadership skills and achieve overall professional fulfilment.

Mr. Franklin Ozekhome, is the Director, CoolBrands Africa, he spoke with Princewill Ekwujuru on the coming of the CoolBrand Team from Amsterdam to Nigeria, their mission and the evolving new trend in campaign strategy referred to as The Story-Telling analogy.

Investors’ agony continued last week, as the value of their investment on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, dipped last week by N152.8 billion.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, Abuja Chapter, has offered to assist the Federal Government to prepare its annual budgets early enough to enable the legislature pass them at the beginning of each fiscal year.

Air travel in Nigeria is gradually being taken away from the reach of the middle class as the airline operators in the country have increased the cost of air tickets to various destinations in the country hiding under the guise of the increase in Passenger Service Charge (PSC) introduced by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operators of the Murtala Mohammed Airport Terminal 2(MMA2) recently.

The Lagos chapter of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM), the foremost people management institute in Africa, is set to hold its 9th annual conference at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Topo, Badagry.

Chairman, Heirs Holdings Limited (HHL), Mr. Tony Elumelu has reiterated the need for increased collaboration between African business leaders with a view to sustaining economic development in Africa.

WE are giving ghosts too much credit if we insist they are workers. We may be taking the applauds to bizarre ends if we, in addition, claim those eerie characters worked for the federal government. There are no figures about how much they earned during their frightening service since we are not sure in what grade levels they served and what entitlements those positions commanded.

Airtel Nigeria has unveiled a soccer talent programme that will focus on identifying and nurturing budding soccer talents in a programme tagged Airtel Rising Stars.

Procter and Gamble has launched its Oral-B Pro-Health toothpaste into the Nigerian market.