NON-REFUND of over N100 million Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, deducted from Dockworkers by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, eight years after the stoppage of the scheme is causing restiveness in the Ports.

Agriculture is one of Nigeria’s most powerful tools in addressing its goals of creating more employment, better public health, and greater economic growth, says Hartmann, Director General of the Ibadan-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

Investors’ funds totaling N29.68 billion went down the drain, yesterday, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, delisted the shares of the three nationalised banks — Afribank Nigeria Plc, Spring Bank Plc and Bank PHB Plc.

Nobel laureate and founder of the first microfinance bank in the world, Professor Mohammad Yunus said that microfinance regulators and operators should stop using the principles of conventional banking to run microfinance banks.

Transport unions and organisations have lauded the present administration for ameliorating their plight by providing their members with buses and ensuring uniform prices of petroleum products.

Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, is partnering the Industrial Training Fund, ITF, to develop skilled middle-level manpower capable of meeting today’s maintenance needs of industry.

E.ON Chief Executive Johannes Teyssen brushed off concern that Germany’s biggest utility could become a takeover target after the value of its shares dropped sharply this year, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The Chairman, Lagos State chapter, National association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB), Mr. Olufemi Babajide, has described knowledgeable manpower as key to profitable microfinance sector that would deliver smooth, efficient and effective services to the underbanked.

The ongoing review in the banking industry and ways of stabilising the financial sector in Nigeria will take the front burner at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Financial Services Group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Thursday, 8th of September.

Former Minister of Industry, Mrs Nike Akande has called for the support of banks and other key stakeholders in the Nigerian economy in helping the country achieve its goal of becoming a major player in the global financial landscape.