Few days from now, we will bid farewell to 2016 and usher in 2017,with great expectations, yet the events that helped to shape the outgoing year will not be forgotten in a hurry.

THE National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has warned insurance companies in the country against engaging in facultative reinsurance without first exhausting local capacity.
Facultative reinsurance is negotiated separately for each insurance contract that is to be reinsured.

Moréniké Ìláò’ebìkan,is the President, Ribbon Rough Foundation, a business owner, a philanthropist, pharmacist and she likes to call herself a renaissance woman because her interests and passion span over several sciences and arts. In this interview, she revealed what young entrepreneurs need to do when starting a business venture.

Ijeoma Ndukwe-Egwuronu, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Bubez Foods, a food company focusing on processing and packaging traditional foods using research and modern technology; steering the team towards achieving our set goals and targets.

Gambian sleeping sickness – a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies – could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new research by the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

In view of national electricity challenges, coupled with the adverse effects of the current economic situation, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered the immediate construction of 8 megawatts and 5megawatts hydro power plants at Ikeji-Ile and Okinni axis of the state.

Until you and I have a good understanding of praise, we cannot reap its full benefits

Osun state Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has been applauded for being aggressive towards infrastructural development in the state.

South Africa-Nigeria bi-lateral relations are very good and encouraging. There are a number of Nigerians coming to South Africa for various activities and so do South Africans come to Nigeria to engage in various businesses and both citizens are assisting in growing the two countries’ economies, because both countries are two major economies in Africa. As you may be aware there are over 120 South African companies in Nigeria and all of these brands are doing well and it is an indication of the significance and importance of our bond.

Meanwhile, in spite of moves by the Federal Government to set up a single regulatory authority for the petroleum industry with the planned scrapping of the existing regulators in the industry, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, received the highest combined allocation for the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in the 2017 budget.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday denied the online report which quoted him, as saying that “Indians are buying over MTN Nigeria”.
The statement was reportedly made at an event organized by Centre Proprietors Association of Nigeria (CPAN) wherein the representative of the Honourable Minister allegedly made the statement.

Nigerians in their forties and above would easily recall December, 1983. Two phenomenal developments took place: On the night of December, 1983, a lanky Major Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, General Officer Commander, GOC, 3 Armoured Division, Nigeria Army and band of military officers, chased out the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari and Buhari became Nigeria’s Head of State. The next most unforgettable experience after that change of government, which was visited with exultation and high forecast of a better Nigeria, was the weather condition under which the coup took place.

It doesn’t even look like there is a celebration coming up in a few days. Before now, you see people selling and buying on every street corner, you see good decorations everywhere. Even the government couldn’t put up nice decorations in the nooks and crannies of the state. Things are really bad and the government seems handicapped.

It was a day after the General Overseer of The Redeemed Church of God; Pastor Enoch Adeboye ministered at the government-sponsored annual carol service in Port Harcourt. The anointing was perhaps still flowing on Governor Nyesom Wike when this correspondent posed the question as to the source of funds for the many projects the administration has embarked on.

OBJ parades himself as a saint and therefore should be ignored. You will recall that at the beginning of Buhari’s tenure in 2015, when I read that OBJ was sending a Blue Print on governance to Buhari, I raised an alarm and advised Buhari to avoid OBJ like leper and I said then and still maintain that, a Bini parable says, “How can a eunuch prepare sexual medicine for a brother of his that can attain a sexual erection occasionally?”. I advise Buhari to dine with OBJ with a long spoon if there is need to dine with him at all.