LAGOS—Concerned Igbo in Lagos State, weekend, called on security agencies to investigate the activities of individuals parading themselves as Igbo leaders in Lagos with a view to checking the nefarious activities of criminals in their midst.

The Chief of Naval Staff, CNS, Vice Admiral Usman Jubrin, weekend, cautioned officers and ratings of the Nigerian Navy against brutalization of civilians, threatening that any personnel whose act leads to the death of a civilian would be immediately court marshaled and handed over to the Police for prosecution.

Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jimi Agbaje has described President Goodluck Jonathan as a custodian of transparency, saying the president has been fight corruption since the beginning of his administration, contrary to the propaganda of the opposition.

When in late 2013, Lamido Sanusi, then Central Bank governor wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan asserting that about $20 billion was not accounted for by NNPC, many Nigerians dismissed the claim with a wave of the hand. The Federal Government, incensed by the claim, appointed an audit firm to carry out a forensic audit of NNPC account.

THERE is no doubt that “the taste of the pudding is in the eating”. Leadership is best appraised when an individual is placed under close watch before he or she was given responsibilities, during the period of assumed or relieved of such responsibilities. The essence is to check for competence, humility and element of arrogance (if any) usually associated with power.

An entrepreneur is a person who makes plans for a business or a piece of work and gets it going. Anyanwuocha (2001) observes that the entrepreneur is the chief co-ordinator, controller and organizer of the production process. The entrepreneur combines other factors of production (land, capital and others) in such a way as to obtain maximum production of goods and services at minimum costs.

Most French investors appear to have been caught napping over the massive investment opportunities in the African continent, especially in the last one decade when the region’s average growth rate was above 5 per cent. At that rate, the region was the world’s second fastest growing region, after Asia.

Nigeria is still an emerging market and the market is far from being saturated. We presently have 4 major GSM network carriers in Nigeria and one strong CDMA network. Feature phone users versus Smartphone users on each of this network are 80 – 20 per cent. We have over 110 million telephone users in Nigeria, according to statistics from Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC.

“I thought about what everybody needs everyday, something that people will always want, that you don’t necessarily have to go begging people to buy. “I narrowed it down to food because I believe that food is very important, everybody needs food. So I did a Google search on companies that are doing well in food with whom we would partner and start distributing their products for a start.

LAGOS — The Nigerian stock market rebounded last week as investors recovered N600.153 billion in five trading days in contrast to the N594 billion lost penultimate week.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for Cross River South senatorial district, Chief Gershom Bassey, weekend escaped assassination as gunmen stormed his residence at Asari Eso Layout, Calabar.

Lagos—Some pro-democracy activists under the aegis of Nigerians United for Democracy, NUD, have called on the security chiefs to give an undertaking on the conduct and certainty of the rescheduled March 28 poll.

Affordable housing is the ultimate objective of mortgage refinancing programmes, but different circumstances may lead different countries to introduce it. The Barrack Obama administration authorized several refinancing programmes aimed at helping underwater homeowners take advantage of the historically low interest rates in the US. In Nigeria bridging the housing deficit may be the driving force.

The Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, NCRIB, has warned insurance brokers who are in the habit of cutting rates to desist from such act as henceforth the Council will no longer defend them. President of the Council, Mr. Ayodapo Shoderu, who made the assertion at the brokers members evening held at its Secretariat in Lagos last week, stated that the act of such brokers have continued to cause ethical brokers to lose genuine businesses.

The newly appointed Group Managing Director of Industrial and General Insurance Plc, (IGI), Mr. Rotimi Fashola has said that he has concluded plans to restructure its operations and repositioning the entire organisation for optimum performance for the benefit of its investors and all stakeholders.