When there are opportunities and different choices to choose from, people and organisations tend to choose the best. What happens when there is no opportunity or probably options available to people or organisations to choose?

When you think about innovation, do you think about Silicon Valley and technological advances and companies with big research and development budgets? Most people do, but the truth is that even the smallest businesses, from one-chair barbershops to popcorn vendors on the street, are capable of coming up with ideas that capture customers’ imaginations. When that happens, you are on your way to building a great brand.

The International Monetary Fund IMF has called on Africa countries to address fuel subsidy, cut 2015 expenditure profile, increase in tax rate and exchange rate flexibly where possible as measures that could help countries tied over the raving global oil price crash.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has directed banks to set up systems that will enable the automatic refund of money to customers in which Automated Teller Machine (ATM) dispense errors to their transactions.

Nigeria’s billionaire, AlhajiAliko Dangote has met with the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on the need to speed up the necessary approval for his investment in power, mining and cement industries in the southern African country.
Dangote who paid a courtesy call on President Mugabe reminded the President at his tate House yesterday that he was awaiting the relevant approvals to set up the group’s investments.

A popular investor and shareholders’ activist, Alhaji Gbadebo Olatokunbo, penultimate week, wrote to investors’ forum, demanding the presidency to set up “committee of prudent managers” to serve as a check on the excesses of the National Assembly (NASS).

The naira depreciated by N5 to N220 per dollar yesterday in the parallel market as dollar demand to fund hajj pilgrimage and payment of school fees increased demand for the United States currency.

The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria, ICSAN, has charged Nigerians on the need to continuously pursue excellence in their workplace, even as it frowns at mediocrity that has remained the problem among workers.

‘IF you don’t register for the Biometric Verification Number (BVN) before the October 31st deadline, nothing will happen to you”.

Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc led other top performing equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, last week with the share price rising by 20.80 per cent or N1.25 to close at N7.26 from N6.01 per share. Skye Bank Plc trailed closely behind, rising by 17.59 per cent or N0.35 to close at N2.34 from N1.99 the previous week.