“The jobs crisis is hitting the young especially hard. And what should have been a brief employment crisis is turning to a life sentence, possibly for a whole lost generation”

Only about three per cent to four per cent of Nigerians invested in the Capital Market, Ms Arunma Oteh, Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said.

THERE is anger among the Ndokwa, Isoko, Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri peoples in Delta State against Shell Petroleum Development Company, SDPC, over recent sales of onshore blocs – Oil Mining Leases, (OML) 30, 34, 40, 42 with reserves of two billion barrels, by the Anglo-Dutch oil conglomerate.

The Nigerian banking industry is poised for greater productivity this fiscal year as nine banks made list of top 1,000 World Banks ranking and top 25 banks in Africa. This is a clear indication that the on-going reforms and new monetary policies mapped out by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to guide the operations of the banks are yielding positive results.

Wasiu Jimoh is a self-employed, who specialises in office and house furniture, home decorations. He is in charge of Anu-Oluwa Furniture Company. Wasiu while interacting with Saturday Vanguard Business, how he became somebody out of nothing said, when nobody creates a job for you

The Agric Trade Group of Ibadan Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (member of the Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines & Agriculture) will be organizing an AGRIC Summit, tagged : “Agricultural Financing : The Road Map” meant for peasant farmers and others stakeholders in the private and agric sector covering the whole states in the South – West of Nigeria, as a pioneer and partner in the – Agro-Allied business.

MDS Logistics, a division of UACN Plc, recently commissioned a N100 million pharmaceutical distribution hub to serve the northern axis of the country in the commercial city of Kano.

Adoption of enterprise risk management (ERM) programmes has continued to grow as 79 percent of respondents said they were currently implementing an integrated ERM programme as against 59 percent two years ago, according to a survey conducted by Deloitte.

In the heat of the deadline set by the CBN for rescued banks to recapitalise, the Managing Director of Union Bank, Mrs. Funke Osibodu, had an interactive session with journalists. She answered probing questions from the media. Excerpts:

Oceanic Bank International Plc has been awarded with a marketing and communications award by the Marketing World Magazine.