The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has mapped out plans to sign memorandum of understanding with states government across the country for enforcement of compulsory insurance.

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA) are in talks on the proposed recapitalisation of insurance companies.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have given the fourth IAAF bronze label Okpekpe international 10km road race held last May in Okpekpe near Auchi in Edo state of Nigeria a clean bill of health following the negative dope tests recorded at the one-day meetin

Amidst rising inflation across all sectors of the nation’s economy due to harsh economic climate currently facing the country, the Managing Director, Mallinson and Partners Limited, a Lagos-based building materials manufacturing company, Mr. Afam Mallinson Ukatu, has decried government’s policy on gas consumption by local manufacturers that pay in US dollars for the supply, lamenting that this has caused over 25 per cent increase in the cost of locally produced building materials. Mallinson and Partners are producers of range of floor tiles and plastics.

A foremost Lagos-based real estate development company, Megamound Investment Limited has introduced a new housing model known as County Apartments at its popular Lekky County Homes Estate, Lekki, Lagos aimed at affording prospective home owners to have roof over their heads in this time of harsh economic climate in Nigeria.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed that concrete walls erected by some Tank farm companies has permanently blocked the natural water ways at Liverpool Community Development Association in Ijegun Egba in Oriade Local Council Development Area, Satellite Town, resulting in flooding and other environmental degradation in the area.

This simply means that government has decided to reserve the land for specific projects, such as constructing a railway, building a bridge or even a standard stadium. Invariably, there is always a use attached to a land that is under Committed Acquisition and it is usually stated from the onset such that it is difficult for such land to later become free and be available for other uses. When the land status indicates that the land is committed, don’t deal. It’s always difficult to do anything about it. Be wary dealing in such land.

Analysts at Vetiva Capital Management have stated that capital imports in the country declined 8.98 per cent Quarter on Quarter, q/q to hit a fresh low of $647 million. This compares unfavourably to $2.66 billion in the second quarter of 2015.

Enugu Rangers produced a devastating display of attacking football to outclass Rivers United 4-0 to go top of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) on Sunday.

It appears that a new new culture of luxury It appears that a new new culture of luxury phone is on the increase in African market. This development is powered by an insatiable appetite for hi-tech lifestyle accessories. This is even as the rich, the young and the urban African middle class push the demand for luxury smartphones to record high.

When she was appointed the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Apex Hospitality and Tourism Training Institute and Personnel Services Regulatory Agency in Nigeria, the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR), many were like asking who is Mrs. Chika Balogun?

Although the global technopreneur and Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg during his visit to Nigeria last week to Nigeria expressed confidence in the potentials of the Nigerian app market , lack of seed funding has remained the major barrier facing these start-ups.

Too broke to pay for costly imports of rice and palm oil, Nigeria is looking to agriculture to help lift itself out of a recession.

ABAKALIKI-RETIRED Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG Mbu Joseph Mbu has called on police officers, especially those still climbing the echelon of authority in the force to be transparent in the discharge of their duties and avoid any form of financial inducement.

Thank you, please recall that sometime ago, I withdrew my membership of PDP from the party. I had been a member of its Board of Trustees; I have not joined any party but overtime my friends and I who have identical ideas and thinking of a better Edo State met and formed a non-political pressure group called the Edo Mass Movement (EMM).