FOLLOWING the recent resignation of Mr. Ibrahim Boyi as the Managing Director of Eterna Oil Plc, The Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Mr. Mahmud Bamanga Tukur as the successor to Mr. Boyi who steps down from the position after five years of service to the Company.

FORTY welders and fitters graduated from The Nigerdock Training Centre, at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone, on Friday 14th May 2010.

ABUJA – The Nigerian Content Development Fund which was signed into recently into law by President Goodluck Jonathan would boost the Amnesty Programme of the Federal Government, the Acting Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Monitoring Board, Engr Ernest Nwapa said on Thursday.

Access Investment and Securities (AIS) Limited has called on investors to take advantage of the gains presented by its newly introduced mutual funds — the Access Fixed Income Fund and the Access Balanced Funds.

MoneyGram International has entered into a strategic partnership with First Bank of Nigeria Plc to provide money transfer services in the bank’s over 500 locations across the country.

Citibank has flagged off its Third annual Diversity week for in over 54 countries in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

IN keeping with its commitment to facilitate development in Nigerian communities and in line with its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, Centrica Energy has entered into strategic partnership with the Maritime Academy, Oron, Akwa Ibom State, to train the youths in various trades.

Despite the challenges that the board and management of Integrated Microfinance Bank, IMFB, have been faced with, it is determined to come out stronger and bigger. In this interview, IMFB’s Managing Director, Mr. Adamu Ibrahim, takes us through the events of the past 9 months, steps being taken to regain public confidence and the recent injection of funds by an investor.

Macmillan, one of the largest and best known international publishing houses in the world is characterized by academic and professional, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing of the highest quality.

Nigeria’s effort to harness its gas potentials is yet to yield the desired fruit.Dr Joseph Ezigbo, managing director, Falcon Petroleum Limited, an indigenous internal piping and gas conversion company, speaks on the gas sector.

Dr. John Akanya, is the director-general, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). In this interview, he speaks on the introduction of off-shore conformity assessment programme (SONCAP) to check the influx of substandard products from abroad and other issues on the industrial sector of the economy.

If only I was born into a rich family, where my parents would easily afford to send me to the best schools in the land and overseas, I would surely be in a better position in life today. With better luck on my side, the exam would have presented more questions in the areas I’d prepared for and I would have passed with flying colours.

Anthony Sykes is the Director, Global Board, International Project Finance Association, (IPFA). . In this interview with Moses Nosike of Saturday Vanguard Business, he states what Nigeria stands to gain from IPFA if it develops its Public Private Parnership market, PPP; and also why Nigeria is a market that nobody can afford to ignore. Excerpts:

In a bid to promote good healthcare service among pregnant mothers, new born babies and children under five years, and also fight against those killer diseases that force the rate of mortality high, Macleans, a premium brand of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc, now partners with Lagos State Ministry of Health to ensure that necessary awareness is brought to the bearing of nursing mothers and babies and that the right type of vaccines and nutrition capable of preserving their lives are taken.

The governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that out of the about N200 billion earmarked to be disbursed as agricultural loans to farmers in the country, only N60b have been utilized two years after.