NIGERIA Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, and Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC weekend sang discordant tunes over the Federal Government planned sale of nation’s refineries with NECA urging the Government to take a decisive stance on the sale of the refineries, NLC on its part threatened to shut down the country should government go ahead to privatise the refineries.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says the best way to attract youths to agriculture is for African governments to evolve fiscal policies that will allow them to have access to finance.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Environment has set up an ad hoc committee to fashion out ways and means to determine how much the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, should pay as compensation for an oil spill that occurred in Ndokwa East Local Government of Delta State in October, 2012.

Recent trends in e-commerce have revealed what appears to be deliberate transition by e-commerce operators globally, from Business to Consumer, B2C to Business to Business, B2B services.

Bayelsa United struck late on to overturn a first-leg deficit as they beat How Mine 2-0 in the second round of the CAF Confederation Cup.

Corporate Affairs Adviser to Nigerian Breweries, NB Plc, Mr. Kufre Ekanem, said the entries for the award billed for June, commenced Friday, March 27.

Nigeria is a country of absurd economic realities. The 13th largest crude oil producer in the world and the second largest economy in Africa earn an estimated $2.2 million a day in oil revenue. Yet, its GDP per capita, at just over $1,400, is among the lowest for the continent and 54 per cent of its 148 million people live on less than $1 per day. The figures are especially shocking because of the abundance of natural resources primarily oil and natural gas, and massive agricultural potential based on its climate and significant rural population.

When in August 2009 Sanusi Lamido Sanusi intervened in five troubled banks in the country; many saw it as a rescue mission. But I saw it differently. I whole-heartedly supported Sanusi cleaning up the toxic assets in the industry. Beyond that, I disapproved of his taking over of some banks that were still liquid at the time of the intervention. Sanusi did not separate the individuals from the institutions.

A Kaduna based poultry farmer, Alhaji Kassim Abdullahi, has emerged winner of N1 million in the ongoing Nutricima Mega Cash Promotion.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, reacted to the request of Northern Youth Leaders Forum, NLYF, to forgive his estranged former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying; “I have forgiven him.”