A former President of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN), Dr Samuel Nzekwe, on Sunday urged the Federal Government to effectively implement its job creation policy in the 2014 budget.

Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Civil Society Coalition against Corruption, CSCC, has given its support for the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency, NFIA, bill to be passed into law. This followed last week’s public hearing on a bill by the Senate.

THE Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, MMSD, had discovered a haven of illegal gold miners in Mailumba- Garin Gabas, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, where they make brisk business form the illicit trade.

An announcement has been made by the government regarding the privatization of national refineries whose implementation is slated for 2014. No doubt, the announcement has received mixed reactions from the public, depending on relative perception of the would-be ultimate winners and losers from this exercise.

Nigerian LNG Limited, a major stakeholder in the LPG sector urged all arms of government to create an enabling environment to deepen and support an efficient Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG market.

The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Mrs. Zainabe Ahmed, has said that the non-implementation of the finding and recommendations of NEITI Audit Reports remained a major challenge facing the agency.

Most people are ignorant of the process. Even some stockbrokers are not fully acquainted with the process. Another challenge is the competence of the lawyer engaged for the process? The extended family culture also contributes to the problem, and finally is the legendary bureaucracy of the courts.

The Board of Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has approved the appointment of Mr Mack Kast, as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive of the agency with immediate effect.

The Federal Government has completed arrangements to commission the solar-powered electrification project in Durumi, a surburb of Mpape in Bwari Area Council.

“NO EATING, NO SITTING. This is not a Visa Office. Management. Those were the menacing words that stared me in the face as I stepped into this very busy, ramshackle eatery on Molade Okoya Thomas Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The three tiers of government shared N6 trillion from January to September from the federation account, while the federal government overspent its budget by N740 billion within the same period.
These were revealed in the Economic report for the first three quarters of the year released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

Research study across organisations in three major African countries namely: South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya has revealed that Nigeria will overtake South Africa in Cloud uptake by 2014, with considerable investments about to be made in the sector.

The inability of the Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, to get the Nigerian Police to buy into the Nigerian Insurance Industry Database, NIID, is hindering the spread of the NIID initiative in the country.

Everyday, Corporate Social Responsibility, (CSR) drive is taking centre stage in the Nigerian business discourse.

Shareholders under the aegis of Association of Avid Shareholders, AAS, have called on the Federal Government to hasten the implementation of removal of Value Added Tax, VAT, and stamp duty from secondary market transactions, saying this will speed up actualisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE’s $1 trillion capitalisation target by 2016.