The Federal Government has extended the contract of the six Pre-shipment Inspection Agents (PIAs) for the exportation of petroleum products by one year, even has it has also appointed two monitoring agents to oversee the function of the six PIAs.

Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Mr. Fola Akinkuotu, in this interview said the NCAA would ensure that air travellers would no longer be short-changed by airlines by enforcing to the letter, the Passenger Bill of Rights. He also said that the government had not given up on the problem of fare disparity. Excerpts:

Access Bank Plc has commenced collaboration with stakeholders in the hospitality industry to develop a road map to address the growth challenges of the industry.

A Corruption Risk Assessment, CRA, conducted across select Nigerian seaports (Apapa, Tin-can, Port-Harcourt,Onne, Warri and Calabar) by a group of national and international consultants, has been concluded.

Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (ACCA) said its mission in Nigeria is to produce finance professionals with the competence to work anywhere in the world.

The African Union (AU) Commission Technical Adviser on climate change, Dr. Victor Fodeke has stated that increased usage of renewable energy and efficiency improvements will provide a lasting solution to various climatic problems caused by global climate change.

THE Seme border Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has confirmed the fact that scanning machines at the border post were inefficient stressing that the situation is beginning to affect its operations.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has charged members to take issues of standard as priority during manufacturing activities in order to make made in Nigeria goods compete in the global market, just as the body decried the difficulties its members go through in the approval processes of Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) as well as NAFDAC.

The Federal Government’s Investment Climate Reforms programme has recorded a major boost as the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has concluded plans to ensure that Nigerians in diaspora or foreigners planning to register their businesses in Nigeria can do so online from any part of the world within the next two months.

IMPORTERS and their agents are running away from scanning of their consignments following insistence that such scanned cargoes be subjected to 100 per cent examination at Tin-can Island Container Terminal(TICT).

FOR the umpteenth time last week, anxiety heightened over the future of Alhaji Diko Inde Abdulahi as the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, amidst speculations that he may have been told to temporarily prepare his handover notes.

Insurance is the transfer of risk from people exposed to risks to professional risk carriers, which are the insurance companies. Every one of us is exposed to one risk or the other because life is full of risks and all these risks can be identified, quantified and reduced to monetary terms.

The number of Chinese citizens regularised and legally residing in Lagos and Ogun zone of the Nigeria Immigration service is about 17,00 according to Comptroller General of Immigration Service, Mr. David Parradang.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code-named ‘Operation Pulo Shield’, said it has arrested 608 suspected oil thieves in 594 raids carried out between January and June.

This column has discussed on 17 July and 24 July 2013 the results of FBN Holdings, FBNH, Plc as provided in the company’s 2012 annual report and accounts. The report at page 162 gives the value of dividends that have not been claimed by shareholders for the period 2003 to 2011 as N8.561 billion. About 70% of this total is for the financial years ending December 2010 and December 2011.