Online car marketplace, Carmudi.com has said it is considering a partnership with the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC and security agencies to prevent any form of fraud especially as related to the auto marketplace in Nigeria.

“If you look at the United States of America, a gallon of petroleum is sold for just 4 dollars (N740) because there is a regulatory body regulating the price”—Wingo

The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, CIS has charged government in the various tiers to use the Nigerian capital market to fix infrastructural deficit in the country.

“We have not gone as far as recalling our ambassadors there because we are looking at other factors; we still have 12 Nigerians on the death row. We need to remain engaged with the government of Indonesia. That is why, for instance, we have not looked at other options.

Yenagoa—The former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has intensified lobbying of his former top aides and leading members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to support the election of the presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Mohammud Buhari, in the state.

ABUJA—PRESIDENTIAL Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, took a swipe at the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its claims that members of the party were mastermind of last week’s attacks on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign convoys in Katsina and Bauchi states.

THERE are no easy answers to how the coming elections would be free and fair. The experiments the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been conducting since the 2011 elections are continuing. Issues are assuming complications that should not be round major elections within weeks of their conduct.

The Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, has said that it is engaging stakeholders in Lagos State with a view to launching the Nigerian Insurance Industry database, NIID, monitoring device in the state.

FirstBank has achieved the recertification of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in 2014, having been one of the first top-tier banks in Nigeria to obtain the certification in 2013. The certification is renewable annually as demanded by the standard and regulators following a rigorous audit of the Bank’s payment card security processes environment.

As the NASD Over the Counter, OTC Market activity continues to rise, about 15 participating institutions in the market have accounted for 93.8 per cent of the trade done in the year 2014 Of the 86 participating institutions, 37 had traded on the NASD OTC market by the end of 2014. The top 5 traders accounted for 62.9 per cent of total market activity.