Airtel Nigeria has unveiled a set of data-rich voice packages designed to provide distinctive telecoms solutions for the youth, High Network Individuals and the mass market segment.

THE National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has announced that all is now set for e-Nigeria Conference 2012. The IT summit, expected to host global leaders and showcase business and knowledge innovators and investors across the continent, will hold in Abuja from Tuesday November 20 Thursday November 22.

Undoubtedly, honey is so sweet and comforting that many people don’t give its healing abilities a second thought. The fact is, honey is far better than what most people perceive. Its benefits does not just stop at satisfying the palate; honey also offers incredible antiseptic, antioxidant and cleansing properties for our body and health, hot beauty and skin care tips for ladies, and amazing healing properties as a head-to-toe remedy, from eye conjunctivitis to athlete foot.

For enhancing student success through innovative use of technology in the classroom, the software giant, Microsoft, yesterday announced that 18 educators from Nigeria, Ghana, Jordan, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt, UAE, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Uganda and Morocco will represent the Middle East and Africa in the Partners in Learning Global forum which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from November 28 to December 1 2012.

The influence of offshore investors triggered increased demand for FGN bonds last week, causing prices to rise and interest rate to decline.

When I was invited to speak at the 2012 ISPON National Software Conference and Competition at Tinapa, Cross River State, I was immediately interested in attending. A few years back I had spent a considerable amount of time and energy preparing for a trip that was designed to lay the foundations for a formal film school in Lagos.

Union Bank of Nigeria(UBN) has evolved a branch re-restructuring strategy and new communications and advertising campaign tagged ‘and we’ve only just begun’ that would impact on the bank’s image.

Plans are under way to import 100 large-scale mills to boost rice production in the country, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said on Monday.

SOME retired police officers in Anambra State, have staged a protest in Awka over alleged non- payment of 15 months pension arrears.

The Centre for Infrastructure, Policy, Regulation and Advancement (CIPRA) at Lagos Business School, and the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC), today in Lagos signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between CIPRA and ICRC.

After a keenly contested software competition involving 17 schools from Nigerian tertiary institutions last week at the African knowledge city, Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state, two software innovators from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State won the 2012 national software Innovation competition organized for students in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Minister of Finance,Dr. Ngozi-Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday faulted the proposed Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) bill, saying that it vested too much power in the Customs.

Stakeholders in the pension industry, particularly the regulators and operators have been exploring various strategies towards enhancing public awareness about the enormous benefits derivable from the country’s nascent pension regime enunciated in the Pension Reform Act of 2004. In this interview, Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers, Dr. Demola Sogunle, addresses some of the recurrent issues in pension and retirement planning in Nigeria.

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has called on relevant agencies to collaborate with it to minimise conflicts in statistical figures released in the country.

THE Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, is saddled with the responsibility of bringing sanity to roads in Nigeria in order to curb the rate of accidents on the various highways. In the estimation of some observers, the Commission’s operatives have been doing this to the best of their abilities. They are usually called to a great deal of task in the last quarter of every year which have been tagged the “EMBER” months, a period that has come to be associated with more accidents and loss of lives on our highways.