Unilever Nigeria Plc, brand owners of Lifebuoy soap said it’s deploying a campaign tagged ; Hand Washing to fight infectious diseases via Integrated Marketing Communications tools.

Every brand aligns to a connecting tool, particularly, marketing communications activities that help push sales or consolidate brand position in its market segment.

InMobi, an independent mobile Ad network, and Softbank Corporation has completed a $200 million (N30 billion) investment agreement. The funding according to the agreement will take place in two tranches of $100 million in September 2011, followed by an equivalent tranche in April 2012.

The Federal Government has called on the private sector to help attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) into the housing sector of the country.

The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US Government’s development finance institution, has approved $250 million in financing for two American firms to invest and recapitalise Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.

In efforts toward supporting President Goodluck Jonathan’s ambition of entrenching good leadership in all sectors of the nation’s economy, the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) has reinstated the need for Nigerians to live up to the task of contributing their quota towards achieving the goal of a prosperous nation that can stand the test of time.

Airtel Nigeria confirmed its rating as a socially responsible company in Nigeria with the sponsorship of the maiden edition of the just ended Airtel Rising Stars U-17 tournament which ran nationwide for a month.

When I got the invitation to tour Nasarawa State along with four other prominent opinion leaders in the media I was excited. I visited the state as part of a presidential entourage when it was still part of old Plateau in 1992. On that occasion we made whistle stops at Lafia and Keffi where we paid courtesy calls on the traditional rulers and military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, commissioned a couple of projects.

The Dream Economy envisioned in government’s “‘Vision 20:2020’ seeks to position Nigeria as one of the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. In economic terms, this translates to having a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of at least US$900 billion by that date compared to about US$212 billion as at 2008″ – (Source: Nigeria Vision 2020 Economic Transformation Blueprint – pg. 26, work-in-progress as at 5/10/2009).

A motion directing the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to stop the collection of driver’s licence fees as it is a tax/rate to be collected by state governments in the country is expected to come up today before the Edo State House of Assembly.