Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has said that youth entrepreneurship is a key to its policy, reiterating readiness to continue inspiring youth by engaging them in activities that will explore and expose their inert and creative talents. Speaking at a meeting to flag off the Child Live Painting and Literary Arts Competition, titled “The Road to Sambisa” Executive Director, Marketing, Mr. Benson Evbuomwan, said that the company will continue to support initiatives and programmes that will impact positively in the lives of the youth.

LAGOS — Lagos State government is set to commence operation at the just completed first ultra-modern cardiac and renal centre at Gbagada area of the state. The centre, according to the government, was aimed at ensuring local management of cadio-vascular conditions as coronary heart disease as well as chronic kidney diseases.

The perennial crash of crude oil prices and the exposure of the Nigerian economy to financial crisis has pushed stakeholders and policy makers attention to non oil revenue generation. One sustainable source of foreign exchange generation is export of manufactures, solid minerals, and agricultural output with value addition. The Nigerian Export Import Bank is fast becoming the center of attraction to government and exporters to push the non oil foreign exchange earning drive through trade financing and productive efforts of exportable products from Nigeria

Nigeria’s online shopping mall, Shotpomydoor has announced free ingternational shipping services for customers shopping from the United States of America. The free shipping promo, according to Shoptomydoor, will apply to customers who purchase virtually anything from the USA with the exclusion of cars, heavy industrial machineries and a few other items, and will run for purchases made from the 12th to 30th of March, 2015.

IBADAN—All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, has accused some influential opposition party members of allegedly compromising some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to divert permanent voter cards, PVCs, belonging to some registered voters in the state.

lagos—24 years after its demolition, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday commissioned and handed over the rebuilt Oyingbo market urging Lagosians to vote for a party that has a record of keeping its promises, like the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the coming general elections.

Wilmar Africa, producers of Frytol vegetable oil has entered the Nigerian market with a fully integrated consumer activation. The campaign was to further establish the Frytol product to resonate amongst consumers. The last quarter of 2014 saw producers of the product deliver an unforgettable experience to market women, with their world class Edwomhemaa activation.

Asaba, the Delta State capital is agog as the Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan will host the first Delta State Reverend Fathers Tennis tournament beginning 4 pm today at the Government House Tennis Courts, Asaba.

Research suggests that flooding poses a threat to roughly 21 million people across the world every year, costing the global economy roughly $90.65 billion, with the potential for an estimated six-fold increase over the next 15 years. Data provided in connection with the launch of a new flood mitigation platform, the Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer tool, co-developed by the World Resource Institute (WRI), Deltares, the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University Amsterdam, Utrecht University and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, highlights the economic severity of global flooding and its potential rise.

The yields on Nigerian bonds are seen rising next week on uncertainty over a delayed presidential election, while Kenyan Treasury bill yields will ease further on increased liquidity. Nigerian bonds yields will rise as Africa’s biggest economy prepares to hold presidential elections on March 28, while a planned Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting to set rates on March 24 would also unnerve investors, traders added.