I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! —Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first black female millionaire.

THE rising incidence of ATM card fraud is causing bank customers to developed apathy to payment cards, with some customers returning their ATM cards to their banks while some simply refuse to obtain the cards..

MINISTER of information and communications, Prof Dora Akunyili has said that after reviewing the existing telecommunications policy, the Federal Government has decided to bring new policy that will re-shape telecommunication operations in Nigeria.

EXECUTIVE secretary/chief executive officer of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, Alhaji Mustapha Bello, has disclosed that six micro-finance banks in the country will receive about $8.4 million grant this year. Bello who spoke in Kaduna at the Business Development Services fair jointly organised by the World Bank and the Federal Government, said the lifeline was to address the problem of poor access to loan and equity capital confronting micro, small and medium enterprises in Nigeria.

Dr. Biodun Adedipe is the Chief Consultant of B. Adedipe Associates Ltd. which specialises in management and financial consultations, environmental scanning and calibration, training, feasibility studies, recruitments, strategic planning and advisory services.