The top 10 performing stocks last week were the shares of Unity Bank Plc, Cutix Plc, Champion Breweries Plc, Glaxosmithkline Plc, Neimeth Plc and A.G Leventis Plc. Others were United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, NASCON Allied Industries plc, Beta Glass Company Plc and Unilever Nigeria Plc.

FIDELITY Bank Plc’s on-going promotional campaign, tagged ‘Save 4 Shelter’ promo has produced first set of winners.

A total of 21 customers drawn from the six geographical zones of the country won different cash prizes and consolation prizes of six refrigerators and generators sets at the first draw conducted at the bank’s head office in Lagos.

RESIDENTS and corporate bodies within the Ikeja Distribution Company, DISCO, are in for a good bargain as the Ikeja Electric, said it is rolling out 12,000 free meters from October.

The only thing that can encourage entrepreneurs to come and list their companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) is to give incentives and tax holiday, said Shareholders. Stockbrokers have identified entrepreneurs participation in the capital market as a key to boosting activities and repositioning the market for global competitiveness. As the stockbrokers clamoured, they also maintained that the capital market cannot do without the participation of the entrepreneurs who have the capacity to bring their companies for listing on the stock exchanges.

The Federal Government, Monday, threatened to cut gas supply to Ghana’s power plants 100 million Ghanaian cedi indebtedness.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, debunked reports that the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol has been reduced to N57 per liter.

Weekly activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened on a positive note on Monday with the market capitalisation appreciating by N22 billion.

Princewill Ekwujuru takes a look at the move by Akwa Ibom state to instil new thinking in the minds of the citizenry. It takes a new route to rebrand the state with the ‘Dakkada’ campaign instrument of change. Just like everything else, in time, a brand image gets tired and dusty, no longer able to rise to customers’ expectations and even to its own. And when that happens, it’s time to let go of the past and start believing in ones future: then it is time to think about rebranding.

The apex bank has raised N127.07 billion in trading Nigerian Treasury Bills, NTB, whose maturities range between three months and one year at lower yields compared with its previous auction. CBN last month announced that the it planned to auction N814.78 billion in NTB between September 17 and December 3, 2015.

The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has developed a partnership blueprint to meet the housing needs and peculiarities of each state government in Nigeria, according to a newsletter by the organisation. FHA had already commenced aggressive campaign on the new initiative by meeting with state governments geared towards making houses accessible to Nigerians.