Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, yesterday, said the manufacturing sector was one of the most vulnerable in the country’s economy because of competition.

Royal Dutch Shell said it found two fresh onshore oil pipeline leaks in Nigeria’s Delta region last week, three days after the company declared force majeure on exports of the high grade Bonny Light crude due to outages caused by oil theft.

Contrary to speculations that Nigerian companies participation in the annual Offshore Technology Conference, OTC, in Houston Texas, US, is more of a jamboree than business development, Emval Holdings Limited, has said that participation in the conference has brought it vast business opportunities.

WITH a 20 percent unmet need for family planning in Nigeria, the need to invest in country-specific family planning supplies and programmes has been stressed. President of the Women Deliver, Jill Sheffield who disclosed this in an interview, said: “Nigeria should invest in family planning supplies and programmes, which would drastically reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, maternal deaths, newborn deaths, and unsafe abortions.”

Rights group, the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Federal Government to make room for transparency and democracy in the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

Chairman, Poly Products Plc, Mr. Michael Bruce, said the company plans to delist its shares from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE.

The world’s poorest countries have issued a bold plan to make the UN climate change talks more likely to reach their goal of having an effective and legally binding agreement ready for governments to adopt by 2015.

Two major international agricultural centres have pledged to scale efforts to tackle the hunger challenge in Africa, a statement by both firms said.

AS the two-week ultimatum handed the Federal Government to prosecute indicted persons in the subsidy report expires, the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, says it will head to court to seek for judicial pronouncements on appropriation and spending from the Federation Account.

ILORIN – AS the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the non-academic workers in the nation’s universities is due for review in July, Labour leaders have given indication that they will demand pay rise to cope with the economic reality in the country.