Multinational professional services network, Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited, PwC has singled out West Africa as one of the most attractive destinations for investors in infrastructure. The region’s growing population and its wealth of natural resources were described as the foundation for sustainable economic growth. This declaration was made by Ian Aruofor, PwC CP&I West Market leader at a media parley used by PwC to present its 2014 report titled: “Capital Projects & Infrastructure in East Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa: Trends, Challenges and Future Outlook”.

The Financial Reporting Council has suspended the public hearing schedule for today on the draft National Code for Corporate Governance due to a court injunction obtained against the hearing by some shareholders. Meanwhile the Council has dismissed the allegation of division among its board members as well as misappropriation of funds for the take off of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) Academy.

“We intend to increase our market share to 13% during the current financial year, driven mainly by sales in the pickup segment,” Whitfield added. Also in his speech, Mr Jim Dando, General Manager, Sub-Sahara Region, Nissan South Africa – Africa Region South applauded Nigeria’s new automotive policy saying: “This policy will form the basis on which major manufacturers will invest in manufacturing plants and local equipment manufacturing.”

General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) should put infrastructure development and maintenance on the front burner of his administration’s agenda. The call was made by the Managing Director/CEO of Alpha Mead Facilities & Management Services Limited, a.k.a. AMFacilities, Mr Femi Akintunde. Akintunde an engineer, spoke at a press briefing to formally announce the hosting of the 2015 edition of the Nigerian Facilities Management Roundtable.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar111 has charged the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to sustain its current campaigns against road carnage in the country, stressing that road safety is a collective responsibility. The Sultan who gave the charge over the weekend while receiving the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi in his Palace, assured that his own convey will continue to move within the stipulated speed limits to serve as an example to others.

GOVERNORS under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF agreed to put behind them, crises rocking the forum as they took a resolution that governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is the authentic Chairman of the forum having won the May 2013 election of the forum.

Senator Ahmad Lawan, APC, Yobe North has traced his aspiration to be Senate President to his determination to complement the anti-corruption bearing of Muhammadu Buhari as president saying that the Senate must align with the anti-corruption stance of the president-elect.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has ordered that the account of Zamfara State Government domicile with Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, be attached to satisfy a judgement debt of N741.8million, owed First Bank of Nigeria Plc.

Benin professionals and entrepreneurs in the United States of America and Canada have called on Professor O. G. Oshodin, immediate past Vice Chancellor of University of Benin, to join the 2016 Edo State governorship race.

The Federal Government, yesterday, inaugurated Nigeria’s first sugarcane bio-factory in Zaria as part of efforts to achieve national self-sufficiency in the nation’s sugar requirements.