The Organised Private Sector, OPS, in Lagos State have urged the state government to develop other means of generating revenue as their over reliance on the private sector for wealth creation is impacting severely on the sector.

Blame games either in a family, corporate world or community is a sign of failure of leadership. Leadership is about taking responsibility and action where necessary no matter who is involved. In situations where people are not ready to accept responsibility for their actions or inactions, they blame their failures on subordinates or opponents.

Pentagon Real Estate Investment Limited has issued allocation papers to the first batch of subscribers to its Cedar Gardens estate project.

The storm surrounding the introduction of Non-Interest Banking (NIB) commonly called Islamic banking is gradually settling down and it is important to begin to exhume the challenges that might crop up in its operations with particular reference to the taxation of the sub-sector by the relevant tax authorities, especially the setting of standards for the type of taxes that apply and that are to be collected from the transactions.

Pius Adesanmi, a budding literary icon was the guest speaker at the “Second State of the Nation” lecture organized recently by the Pastor Tunde Bakare-led Save Nigeria Group. Adesanmi, an Assistant Professor at Carlton University, Canada, chose the title “Reparations: What Nigerians Owe the Tortoise” as his theme.