NICON Insurance Limited has enchanted its brokers with four new products the company has released to the market.

The insurance company introduced the insurance products to the Insurance Brokers operating in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Shareholders under the aegis of Progressive Shareholders Association of Nigeria (PSAN) have expressed dissatisfaction over nonpayment of dividend by First Aluminum Nigeria Plc.

The management of Red Star Plc has revealed that it plans to grow its turnover to N16 billion in five years from N5 billion it currently stands. Speaking during the management’s visit to Vanguard, Mr. Sule Umar Bichi, Managing Director of the company said their focus has also expanded from just being a courier business to a completely logistic service provider, adding that the advent of information technology has opened up more vista of opportunities than threat to their courier business.

The Federal Government has not been more serious on its creation of job promise than last week in Lagos, when in collaboration with the Outsourcing Initiative of Nigeria, ODIN, it linked about 1,007 unemployed graduates to prospective employers.

Against the backdrop of the recent demolition of Makoko, a coastal community in Lagos, by the state government, a lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on government to design programmes that will ensure that people living in slums are given a new life.

The value of investors’ equities listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange, NSE, continued on a bullish trend last week, as the market capitalisation rose by N172.57 billion.

Shareholders of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and FinBank Plc, have endorsed the business combination of the two banks as 99.98 per cent of FCMB shareholders voted in favour of the merger resolutions at a court ordered meeting held in Lagos at the weekend.

Ms. Olumide IniOluwa Akinyemi is the Chief Executive Officer of Meeday Confectioneries, a catering outfit in Ketu area of Lagos which specialises in ready-to-eat snacks such as chinchin, cakes, samosa, etc. In this chat with Financial Vanguard, Akinyemi speaks on her motivation and challenges, noting that the core value of Meeday lies in helping clients realise their goals. She said the company was born out of her passion for baking as a teenager.

Labeled as a toothless bull dog that could only bark but could not bite, the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM is steaming hot to deal with any insurance company or broking firms that dare to break the rules of the regulatory body.

With a degree from an American university, not many will take to farming which is often seen as the profession for the dregs of the society, but that is not the case with Lady Uwa Osunbor, a mother of two, who takes pride in being called a farmer.