Standard Chartered Bank has won the African Business Award for Best Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility- organised by African Business magazine and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC).

Williams Coker is the Secretary-General and CEO of sub-regional insurers organisation, West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA). He is a student of West African Insurance Institute in The Gambia and also a citizen of the country. He was in Nigeria where he held high level talks with officials of ECOWAS on the future of WAICA. An apostle of regional integration, Coker spoke exclusively to Vanguard weekend on his current brief for the transformation of the body to a commercially viable organisation.

THE Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, has alleged that the tools applied by international rating agencies to rank exchanges were to the disadvantage of the local stock exchange. Okereke-Onyiuke who was speaking recently during the Capital Market day at this year’s convention of the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA), in Abuja , said the Nigerian stock market has been recovering at a very fast rate compared to other markets globally.

THE Federal government has announced that expenses on Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) to run the Egbin thermal station due to a shortage in gas supply has gotten as high as N1.8 billion naira per month, even as it has commenced plans to develop coal power plants near large coal deposits in the country.

BANNER Energy, a wholly owned indigenous company with operations in the gas sector has commenced moves to roll out about 1000 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) retail plants throughout the country.