Managing Director of Lagos-based Imperial Microfinance Bank, Mr. Ejike Azubuike, has called for broad based-boards of directors as panacea to the problem of poor corporate governance in microfinance banks, MFB.

Abstract: Citizens of Alaska have been receiving individual dividend checks from an oil rent trust fund since 1982. Norway’s citizens receive substantial social services and invest oil rents in a permanent fund for the future. Nigeria has yet to establish a similar fund for its oil revenue stream.

PERHAPS, the crop, cashew is overshadowed by coffee, cocoa, and maybe cotton and oil palm, but in terms of the number of lives that can be touched, cashew is far more, than the aforementioned crops.

Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Kirikiri Lighter Terminal Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Iya Abubakar Umar, has charged recently promoted officers in the command to justify management’s confidence on them by putting in their best and providing leadership in the discharge of their duties.

THE Koinonia Venture Limited (KVL), Nigeria Export Promotion Commission (NEPC) export roundtable, a forum to examine the current challenges facing the non-oil export sector geared towards identifying solutions that could aid non-oil export trade in Nigeria will hold between August 25 and 26 in Kano State.

THE world has been anxiously awaiting signs the Chinese along with other emerging market economies will emerge as the new drivers of global export demand to replace the once spendthrift U.S. consumer.

Mr. Mukul Mathur, Country Head, Olam Nigeria in this interview with Jimoh Babatunde, traces the company’s journey into Nigeria’s agricultural sector with a verdict that the country’s potential in agriculture still untapped and that agriculture remains the key to Nigeria development.

A study conducted by IITA and the Africa College-University of Leeds in Tanzania reveals that local farmers are more interested on the productivity potential of genetically-modified (GM) crops than they are worried about the possible risks associated with their use.

The scarcity of funds in the banking industry has assumed another dimension with banks issuing special Bankers Acceptances aimed at staff upfront salary to bouy their liquidity position.

The Lagos state government has started the implementation of the recently introduced consumption tax which is meant to enhance the state revenue generation effort to sustain the ongoing development of infrastructure as well as maintain the social services being provided to Lagosians.