Indications emerged Monday, that Alhaji Aliko Dangote may become the next President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), come August 6, 2009, when the Exchange holds its next Annual General Meeting (AGM).

As parts of plans aimed at improving its bottom lines in the years ahead, Nigerian Bottling Company Plc has put in place a strategy to boost its turnover, with the launch of a sales academy.

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.