CHIEF Executive Officer of West Blue Consulting, Ms Valetina Mintah has said that excessive bureaucracy has been identified as the most severe constraints to trade processing in Africa. Speaking at the recently concluded Ghana National Single Window Media Trade facilitation workshop in Akossombo, Ghana, Mintah said importers and exporters remain uncompetitive in the global business arena, a development that could be attributed to the number of days it takes to complete import and export processing and their attendant costs.

EMERGING projections point to the fact that the purveyors of the desperate craze to lure the people of Edo State into the vortex of neo-colonial subservience and allegiance to an Aliko Dangote who, through the sitting Governor of the state is bent on foisting a surrogate on Edo State.

A member of House of the Representatives, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has raised the alarm that the plan by the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in collaboration with a top federal government official to introduce speed limiters on vehicles with obsolete technology was another way of exploiting Nigerians.

No fewer than six children, under the ages of five, died in an outbreak of measles and whopping cough in Sule-Tankarkar Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

Starting your own business can yield amazing rewards but at the same time it’s a pretty big risk. One of the biggest reasons why people fail is they enter into a business that doesn’t have profitable market. They may like what they are doing but they are not making money. It is one of the keys to do something you are passionate about, but if you can’t monetize it, then it is not something you may want to go into business with. It is necessary to carry out thorough research before you build up a business to find if there is a demand for your products.