The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) have resolved to enter into a partnership to simplify and fast-track business registration processes for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), a significant step towards the formalisation of the nation’s largely informal economy.

PRESIDENT of the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees, NUFBTE, Comrade Lateef Idowu Oyelekan, has been given 2010 distinguished worker of year award.

Hi Readers! I got a little insight of the relationship between Seb and Belinda while
the three of us, along with Edmund, were paying a visit to Tayo’s mum in Abeokuta. Make no mistake – they are fond of each other, enjoy being together, and above all, understand each other well.

In a move to close the gap between the official foreign exchange rate and the parallel market exchange rate, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week raised by 100 per cent the limit banks’ sale of autonomous foreign exchange to bureaux de change (BDCs). Consequently, each bank can now sell foreign exchange up to N1 million to BDCs per week.

Airtel Nigeria has announced the appointment of Mr. Kehinde Adebo Lawanson, an Executive Director with First Bank Nigeria Plc, as a member of its Board of Directors in non-executive capacity.

Guinness Nigeria Plc, brewer of Guinness Stout has given the Guinness Eye Centre at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) a face lift.

A group of shareholders of Premier Breweries Plc have called on the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, to launch an investigation into the just-concluded rights issue of the company.

Chairman of the ministerial visitation panel to Federal Unity Colleges, Chief Sylvester Onoja, yesterday urged the Federal Government to establish Secondary Schools Commission without delay in order to arrest the dwindling standard of secondary education in Nigeria

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has warned chairmen and members of some boards and parastatals not to go into supremacy dispute with the management of such organisations.

Catholic bishops of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, comprising the dioceses in Imo and Abia states, have charged governments of the two states to serve the citizenry well or risk mass uprising.