The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for a review on the state of economic integration in our subregion and identify the challenges and proffer solutions, especially from the private sector perspective. This was said in Lagos at the stakeholders forum on Business Opportunities in ECOWAS.

ORGANISED labour in the nation’s schools and colleges, has called on President Yar’ Adua to redouble his government’s efforts at making power available to Nigerians, saying the nation cannot achieve industrialisation or any meaningful development without stable power supply.

A Benin-based Micro-Finance bank, Lift Micro-Finance, a subsidiary of Lift Above Poverty (LAPO) has vowed to tackle poverty and give hope to many especially women who are the bread winners of families, through its credit delivery, recovery strategies and customer relations.

The Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said that the economic crisis that engulfed the world would have been worse but for concerted global action directed at combatting the crisis.

The Federal government will spend N200 million on the campaign to promote patronage for “Made -In-Nigeria” goods.Minister for Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa disclosed this in Abuja at a ceremony to flag off the campaign. Udenwa said that President Umaru Yar’Adua would formally launch the campaign on Tuesday, 13th October, 2009 at Eagle Square.