AVA Capital set for NGX listing to strengthen market visibility
By Peter Egwuatu AVA Capital Plc, an integrated financial services group with operations in investment banking, asset management, securities trading and trusteeship, is set to list on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) by way of Listing by Introduction on Friday. According to a statement made available to Vanguard, the listing is a strategic transition into the […]
Citizen dividends and oil resource rents, a focus on Alaska, Norway and Nigeria
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.
Cashew attracts global demand in spite of downturn
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 boss charges officers to justify promotion
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.
KVL/NEPC export roundtable holds in Kano
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.
BRIC countries to drive global export in 2010
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.
