Dr. Nteranya Sanginga is the seventh Director-General of IITA. He speaks on Africa’s agriculture, making a case for the imperativeness of a Green Revolution, and the way forward.

MitchelL Elegbe is the Managing Director/Chief Executive of Interswitch, the first and biggest electronic payment switching company in Nigeria. Prior to the cashless policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the company in conjunction with its owner banks introduced ‘Operation Cashless’.

Mr. Felix Eiremiokhae is the CEO/Chairman of Oracle Group, he talks about the impact experiential marketing has made in the marketing communications industry and his recent Award by the Institute of Direct Marketing of Nigeria (IDMN) and other sundry issues. Princewill Ekwujuru reports.

Nigerians have continued to spend the nation’s foreign reserves in the importation of finished consumer products that could be sourced locally if efforts are made to patronize made in Nigeria products.

The interbank money market recorded net outflow of N262 billion in January even as oil firms boosted foreign exchange supply with $1.1 billion.

Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE witnessed a slight drop last week as the value of listed equities represented by the market capitalisation dipped by N4.73 billion.

Churches and mosques in Nigeria may soon be required to produce evidence of having their premises and property insured in the wake of spate of attacks by the Boko Haram sect.

Nigeria Export-Import Bank, NEXIM has earmarked N30 billion to support Nigerian exporters, just as it plans to float a shipping line to facilitate business between Nigeria and other Africa countries. NEXIM Managing Director, Mr. Roberts Orya appearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions in Abuja also disclosed that the bank will soon float a shipping line to provide platforms for Nigerian exporters to do their businesses.

By ROSEMARY ONUOHA NICON Insurance Plc has been suspended from the Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, after refusing to appear before the Customer Complaint Bureau of the association. Chairman of NIA, Mr. Olusola Ladipo-Ajayi who announced the suspension during a media parley at the NIA secretariat in Lagos last week stated that the company remains suspended […]

Nigeria: Good People, Great Nation’ was a slogan coined by the Federal Ministry of Information in its bid to positively project Nigeria’s image to the world and attract foreign direct investments in the process. But the Nigerian situation needed more than mere rhetoric and one man chose to take the proverbial bull by the horn by bringing in a sport hitherto the exclusive preserve of Europeans, Americans and Asians.