When you’re dealing with customers, silence is incriminating. Whether there is any validity to the concern or not is another issue altogether. The problem is that people think that there is a problem, and it only fans the fire.

At some point in your life, you’ve been offered a multi-level marketing, MLM, network marketing, direct selling, or referral marketing business opportunity. While the offer varies from company to company, it basically promises a chance to either ditch your 9-5 work schedule and be your own boss, or make lots of easy, extra income alongside your 9-5 work schedule.

Months after the 2016 Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL season kicked off without a title sponsor. Star lager has been officially signed on as a partner in a bid to increase the brand profile of the league. The partnership agreement is expected to run from 2016 to the 2019/2020 football league season.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has applauded the actions of the Central Bank of Nigeria in licensing 11 additional International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) to operate in Nigeria as part of efforts to liberalise the Foreign Exchange Market, ensure liquidity and make FOREX readily available to low end users.

AN exhibition and conference showcasing the state of the Nigerian health sector opens in Abuja Monday 19 September, 2016.

The Public Complaint and Training Committee, PCTC, of the Lagos State Judiciary, has referred the petition against Magistrate Tesillimi Shomade of the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ojo, Lagos State, by one Mr Bamanga Adamu, a retired Customs Officer to the Lagos State Judiciary Service Commission.

MASQUERADES in Yorubaland and some other tribes in Nigeria are highly revered owing to the fact that they are regarded as the spirit of the ancestors on an intercessory mission to their kindreds here on earth. This singular feature make people to stand in their awe, and celebrate their appearance.

A few days after the occurrence of earth tremor in Jama Local Government Area of Kaduna State, the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, has attributed the cause of the vibration to passive sources.

Most startup ideas begin in the mind of an individual, but an idea is not a business. It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Many aspiring entrepreneurs default to team leadership by domination and control. But from experience, the best entrepreneurs quickly learn the art of people connection. They connect and inspire the right people to achieve more with less.

Environmental Rights Action, ERA/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, FoEN, has called on Bayelsa State Government to make public the Environmental Impact Assessment report for the ongoing Igbogene road by-pass in Yenagoa, the state capital.

ABUJA—AFTER a six-week annual recess, the Senate will reconvene next Tuesday, with special focus on the present economic quagmire facing the country topping the agenda.

Venus Williams said she is dismayed by the alleged leakage of doping documents by Russian hackers who broke into the World Anti-Doping Agency database and released details of her confidential medical records.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, said that coal mining licences would be issued only to companies that are interested in generating electricity from coal.

A formal business plan is really only important if you’re looking for money – a bank loan, an outside investor, a partnership, a joint venture. When those situations arise, it’s almost always necessary to have a plan in writing.

ABAKALIKI—An Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court, Ebonyi State, yesterday, remanded one Ogobuchi Ogonna, 25, for drowning his step-brother, Wisdom Amagu, aged three.